Convert to unstructured programme

View guidance on converting your EUCLID Degree Programme Table (DPT) to an unstructured format, more suited to the delivery of your programme. To be utilised for DPTs with courses that can be studied beyond a semester or year structure, for example postgraduate taught intermittent programmes and some PhDs.

Introduction

If your DPT is delivered in an 'unstructured' format you will need to click on the 'Convert to unstructured programme' button beforehand to merge the years into the correct format.

This applies to programmes such as the postgraduate taught intermittent programmes and some PhD where it may be the case that some course need to be taken in a set semester or year, but some courses can be achieved outwith a semester or year structure.

As a DPT Editor you should be mindful of the following Key points regarding the conversion of stuctured DPT to unstructured DPT:

Defining a programme as ‘unstructured’ is designed to speed up the editing of DPTs
Convert a DPT to ‘Unstructured’ if students have the same choice every year.
You cannot have compulsory courses in an unstructured programme (because they would be duplicated each year). Enhancements to tool so that this is prevented
‘Behind the scenes’ there are DPTs created for each year so that the DPT validated route will show the same course choices each year
The DRPS will show a single DPT for an unstructured programme (i.e. not 4 DPTs if a 4 year course).
If a programme is ‘almost unstructured’ e.g. you should take one course before another then it might be worth including this in the DPT notes rather than having repeated DPTs for each year.