Degree Audit User Training | Restriction Types

What are restrictions?

Restrictions remove courses from counting toward the whole degree, part of the degree, specific scopes, specific requirement ID's, or even within the requirements themselves. When an audit is run, the restrictions are the first things that are processed to reduce the number of courses in the students record that are prepared and moved through the degree audit.

What are the different restriction types?

There currently are six different types of restrictions that can be set for any degree plan or requirement. Four exist independent of a requirement and those are:

• Special Processing Restrictions
• Degree Plan Restrictions
• Scope Restrictions
• Subset Restrictions

The remaining two are dependent upon the requirement and exist only within that one requirement and those are:

• Option Restrictions
• Requirement Restrictions

Depending on what you are wishing to restrict, you will need to choose one of these restriction types when coding for restrictions.

Special Processing Restrictions:

These restrictions have been set aside from the normal degree plan restrictions because there only needs to be one of these restrictions, and they are handled without course lists connected to them. Any course that meets these restrictions will be removed from the entire degree plan.

If a course is restricted here it will display in the “classes excluded from audit” section on the results page.

Degree Plan Restrictions:

These are restrictions that will apply to the entire degree plan depending on where they are coded at.

If a course is restricted here, it will display on the “classes excluded from audit” section on the results page.

Scope Restriction:

These are restrictions that you can set to apply to any number of scopes. If you do not allow courses that are components of the core to count for parts of your degree then this is the best restriction to use.

If a course is restricted it will not display on the “classes excluded from audit” section on the results page.

Use caution when applying Administrative scope, as it may lead to unintended consequences in certain requirements (such as excluding coursework from GPA calculations).

Subset Restrictions:

If you have a restriction that applies to only a set of requirements and no others, then this is the appropriate restriction to use.

Along with these independent restrictions, you have the option of creating dependent restrictions within the requirements when you are creating your degree plan requirements.

Requirement Restriction:

This restriction will apply to the entire requirement and remove any courses listed in these restrictions before processing the requirement.

Option Restriction:

This restriction will apply to the option that it is connected to and will only process for this one option and no other options listed for the requirement.