Understanding Student Blocks

A student block is a grouping of student information into blocks based on a number of common academic characteristics. Student blocks can be essential during enrollment because they enable you to mass enroll groups of students into blocks of courses.

You can create student blocks on the Create Student Block Page (STDNT_BLOCK) by manually entering student IDs into a student block, but this becomes inefficient when dealing with large groups of students. For example, you may want to enroll hundreds of first year computer science students into a common, core curriculum based on their academic level and academic plan.

To meet this need for mass enrolling large student blocks, your system includes a mass change type and mass change template called Create Student Block. With these mass change tools, you can create and run mass change definitions that will generate SQL for large student blocks based on your criteria and defaults.

After you create your student block through a mass change definition, you can use the Mass Enrollment process to create a course enrollment block, associate the student block with the course block, and then post the enrollment transactions.