Changes to Academic Structure Processing

You can change academic structure processing by selecting the Evaluate Plan Before Program check box on the Academic Plan Table page and the Evaluate SubPlan Before Plan check box on the Academic Sub-Plan Table page.

Important:

If the audit encounters a plan that is attached to the student's primary academic program and you selected the Evaluate Plan Before Program check box, then the academic structure is not altered by reporting sequence between the career and program. All career requirements are processed first, then plan requirements are processed, and then program requirements are processed.

For example, if the plan in the previous example were selected to be evaluated before the program, then the reporting order would remain the same as before, and this would be the processing order:

Career Level

Requirement Group #1111, Reporting Sequence #1

Requirement Group #1100, Reporting Sequence #2

Requirement Group #1000, Reporting Sequence #900

Plan Level

Requirement Group #4700, Reporting Sequence #1

Requirement Group #3000, Reporting Sequence #900

Requirement Group #2005, Reporting Sequence #901

Requirement Group #1200, Reporting Sequence #999

Program Level

Requirement Group #2001, Reporting Sequence #1

Requirement Group #2010, Reporting Sequence #5

Requirement Group #2050, Reporting Sequence #5

Sub-plan Level

Requirement Group #700, Reporting Sequence #1

Note:

This new processing order affects only plans and subplans that are designated on the first page (Requirement Groups) of the Academic Requirement Groups component. If you append a plan to another plan on the Plans Appended page, then the requirement uses the characteristics of the first plan, not the appended plan. For example, suppose that you set up requirement group 200 as PSUNV/UGRD/FAU/MUSIC (PeopleSoft University/Undergraduate/Fine Arts Undergraduate/Music) and append a plan of PSUNV/UGRD/LAU/PSYCH (PeopleSoft University/Undergraduate/Liberal Arts Undergraduate/Psychology). On the Academic Plan Table page for the music plan, you did not select theEvaluate Plan Before Program check box. On the Academic Plan table for the psychology plan, you did select the Evaluate Plan Before Program check box. After evaluating the program level requirement groups, the audit engine evaluates the psychology plan requirement groups that are appended to the music plan requirement groups.