Core course rules

View guidance on the use of the EUCLID course enrollment rules within the Degree Programme Table (DPT) software.

Enrollment rule options

When you are adding or editing a compulsory or elective course, or collection of courses, you can apply an enrollment rule. The options available to select can be seen below.

  • Not Core
  • Yes, must be passed
  • Yes, must be passed at 50%
  • Yes, must be passed 1st time
  • Yes, must be passed 1st time at 50%
  • Yes, must be passed for professional purposes

Further guidance on updating enrollment rules can be found within the 'Amend DPT​' link at the bottom of this page. 

Key points - enrollment rules

When applying an enrollment rule against a course, collection or elective group, you should be mindful of the following key points:

  1. a core course must be passed to progress (or passed with further conditions e.g. at first attempt). 
  2. a core course can be compulsory or elective. If an elective collection is set up as core then any courses selected from that collection must be passed to progress
  3. if a course that contributes to the award (e.g. 4th year UG Hons) is defined as core then it must be passed to get the intended award.
  4. the progression & award calculations looks for any core course enrolments on a student record and ‘not recommend’ progression or award if a core course has not been passed.
  5. you can define further hurdles e.g. ‘must pass at 50%’.  The progression and award calculations will apply checks against these enrolments and ‘not recommend’ progression/awards if the student fails the checks.
  6. MSc progression rules incorporate the University rules for ‘pass 80 credits at 50%’ and ‘average 50% over 120 taught credits’ so there is no need to add additional conditions to reflect these rules.
  7. we advise that you don’t have a ‘core rule’ within your DPT if you don’t have it within the handbook
  8. there’s no facility within EUCLID to add a rule to calculate the ‘average’ pass mark across courses for a student. This should be recorded in the DPT​ help text if applicable
  9. ‘pass first time’ or ‘pass first time at 50%’should not be used in honours years as honours courses do not have resits. The progression/award rules apply the logic for awarding credits on aggregate.
  10. 'must pass for professional purposes': there are professional requirements that the course must be passed but where the course mark counts for classification it is the first sit mark that will count towards classification.

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