Understanding Advisement Overrides and Course Substitutions

Use advisement overrides and course substitutions to modify existing requirements and make exceptions for a specific student.

Advisement overrides enable you to override any part of a student's degree requirements. Standard requirements can be overridden or an entire program can be configured for a specific student or group of students. Course directives are a type of advisement override. These mandate (or direct) where specific courses will or will not be used to satisfy requirements. For example, you can direct that a course be used toward satisfying a student's major requirements, but not general education requirements. Course directives are a method of course override.

Course substitution enables you to select a course to use in place of the required course. Substitutions can be set up in advance or after course completion. For example, transfer work in the Summer session can be pre-approved so that it is automatically calculated in the Fall session.

You can make academic advisement exceptions for a student in one of three ways:

• Use the Authorize Student Exceptions page to direct where specific courses are to be used to satisfy requirements.

  This is the preferred way to create a course substitution.

• Change, override, or waive a requirement using the Authorize Student Exceptions page.

• Substitute one course for a required course on the Course Substitution page.