Can't differentiate courses when adding course pre-requisites due to course name vs. ID display
When adding course request pre-requisites under Core->School->Departments & Course->Edit Course->Course Requests the display for adding a course pre-requisite displays the Course Title/Course Name instead of the Course ID.
This ends up being a problem because it's hard to determine which course you are actually adding if the course title happens to be the same as another course. Image attached is from the K12 Demo environment with the issue highlighted.
One obvious way to remedy this would be to change all course titles to be different -- unfortunately this is not an actual fix for some schools as our course titles need to follow district or provincial guidelines when printing on let's say a transcript.
The recommended fix would be to either change the display to show the course ID which is always unique; or give users the option to choose if Course Title or ID will display.
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Lucien Piekut
- Nov 16 2017
- Already exists
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Jan 19, 2022
Admin response
Course code was added to the dropdown with the 2/7/18 release.
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Related ideas
The Course code was added to the dropdown with the 2/7/18 release was a step in the right direction but did not solve the issue. Go further and make the course code the Unique IDentifier (UID). Since courses can have the same course title, the import and related functions to this issue still refer to the course title as being required to be being unique.
Or maybe as part of the course name in the drop-down menu, but populating a separate field after selection?
For example, in the drop-down the list might show "English, ENG2D1" but the form shows the description and code as two separate fields.