Features to Set Up Before You Create Courses and Course Sections

You must set up some required features before you create courses and course sections.

Here’s the list of required features:

Feature	More Information
Academic Period Attribute Dates	Create and Manage Academic Period Attribute Dates
Academic Periods	Create and Manage Academic Periods
Academic Subjects	Academic Subjects
Fees	Required for course fees. Student Fees
Manage Result Types	Required for grading. Result Types
Manage Result Sets	Required for grading. Result Sets
Academic Institutions	Academic Institutions
Campuses	Campuses
Academic Organizations	Academic Organizations
Academic Levels	Academic Levels
Time Zone Settings	Time Zone Settings

Here's a list of optional features you might set up before you create courses and course sections:

Feature	More Information
Manage Curriculum Tags	Required to display course cards on the Learning Catalog (New, Popular, Area of Study). Curriculum Tags
Student Management Identifiers	Identifiers
System Offices	Whether entities such as system offices are required depends on your institutional structure. System Offices
Requisite Schemes	Required if courses have prerequisites. Requisite Schemes
Academic Program	Required for program requisites and to assign course requirements. Create Programs
Buildings and Facilities	Required for course section meetings. Buildings and Facilities
Manage Academic Staff	Required for the addition of academic staff such as instructors to Contacts and Course Meeting Information. Academic Staff Assignments

There are also some lookups that are required before you can create courses and course sections. Student Management Lookups

Setup Feature	Lookup Code	More Information
Status	Course: ORA_HER_COURSE_STATUS Course Section: ORA_HER_SECTION_STATUS_CODE	Predefined values are available.
Course Types	ORA_HER_COURSE_TYPE	Required for the creation of meetings.

Here are the optional lookups:

Setup Feature	Lookup Code	More Information
Instructional Method	ORA_HER_CURRICULUM_FORMAT_CODE	Predefined values are available.
Descriptive Text Type	ORA_HER_MESSAGE_TYPE_CODE	Predefined values are available.