Courses and Event-Based Operations
The mapping of PeopleSoft Student Administration course structures to IMS course structures (CreateCourseTemplate service operation) is complex. This section describes SAIP's creation or modification of the necessary course items.
IMS course structure items are:
Course template.
Course offering.
Course section.
SAIP creates a course template when a new course is created in the PeopleSoft Student Administration course catalog, provided that the course is associated with an academic institution and academic organization that are set as in scope for the integration process and that the course's status is Approved. A PeopleSoft Student Administration course always requires at least one course offering.
SAIP updates a course template when any data in the course catalog component is modified and the component is saved. In addition, if a course's status is Inactive, SAIP updates the course template with a status of Inactive.
A PeopleSoft Student Administration course cannot be deleted. However, SAIP will send a delete action to the external system for a course template if any of the following occur:
The current effective-dated row is deleted and the previous row does not have an effective status of Active.
A course offering is deleted from the course catalog component.
SAIP creates a course offering when a new class section is created in either PeopleSoft Student Administration's Schedule New Course or Maintain Schedule of Classes components if the class section is associated with an institution, term and academic organization that are in scope. The IMS course offering item includes an academic session attribute that maps to the PeopleSoft Student Administration term. Terms are associated with the PeopleSoft Student Administration course hierarchy only at the class section level. Therefore, course offering is a blending of PeopleSoft Student Administration's course offering and class section.
SAIP updates a course offering when information in either the PeopleSoft Student Administration's Course Catalog component or Maintain Schedule of Classes components is updated and the component is saved.
SAIP deletes a course offering when a class section is deleted in the PeopleSoft Student Administration Maintain Schedule of Classes component.
Using the same in-scope criteria as course offering, SAIP creates a course section when a new class section is created in the either PeopleSoft Student Administration's Schedule New Course or Maintain Schedule of Classes components.
SAIP updates a course section if information in the PeopleSoft Student Administration Maintain Schedule of Classes component is modified and the component saved.
SAIP deletes a course section when a class section is deleted in the Student Administration Maintain Schedule of Classes or Schedule Class Meetings component.