Display Name

This is where you can change the Display Name from the default "CBE".

What to Include in Registration Checking

During the registration process, the system can include in-progress CBE courses in when it's checking for prerequisites, corequisites, and prohibited courses. It can include corequisites from the previous term in the search, too. Select the checkboxes if you want to include search attributes. This setting applies to CBE courses only. It does not affect settings for traditional courses on the Registration tab.

For courses or sections designated as CBE, the system consults the Competency Based Education tab of the Registration Configuration window. Example For courses or sections not designated as CBE, the system consults the Registration Configuration tab of the Registration Configuration window. Example

Where Users Can Edit Category Levels

Decide whether users can change the maximum level available from within a catalog course, a section, or a student's course history. (You create the categories and levels on the CBE Category Level Definition window.)

Required or Optional?

You can make competencies optional or, instead, required by default for course completion. (Then, as you assign competencies to courses and sections in J1 Web, you can accept or override the default.)

By default, all CBEs added to a catalog course or section are marked as Not Required. They can be changed to Required after they're added.

Grades, Credits, and Hours

You can decide whether CBE elements have grades, credits, and hours. You also decide whether grades, credits, and hours roll up from the CBE elements to the student's course grade.  (For grades, you're setting the defaults for newly created courses and sections, but users can change the settings for individual courses, sections, and student course history records.)

Should competencies have their own grades, credits, and hours? That depends on how your school wants to use competencies.

Competencies as Mere Badges

You can set up CBE so that competencies are merely like badges—acknowledgements of skills achieved. In that case, the CBE elements themselves don't have grades, credits, or hours.

In this setup, competencies might or might not have grades, but the grades aren't connected in any way to the section grade, to GPA, or to any other calculation in a student's record.

To use CBE this way, when you're setting up CBE on the Registration Configuration window, don't opt in to grading, credits, and hours on CBE. Example

Competencies as the Focus of a Course or Section

If you want competencies fully integrated, with each CBE competency getting a grade, hours, and/or credits, then opt in to those settings on the Registration Configuration window. Example

Roll Up

You can have grades, credits, and/or hours roll up from the CBE elements to the section. The student's grade, credits, and/or hours for the section (as seen in the student's course history) result from the student's grade, credits, and/or hours in each of the CBE elements.

If you decide to use the roll up grading method, then you must also use credits to ensure the system can calculate the grades correctly.

Roll Down

If you don't want grades to roll up, you can have them roll down. The instructor grades the course, and each required CBE element is automatically assigned that same grade.

If you don't want credits and/or hours to roll up, then the individual CBE elements won't have hours and/or credits assigned to them. They're assigned only to the student course record for the section.

Deselected: If "Allow grading on CBE" is deselected: CBE elements don't get graded. Grades roll up: If the student earns an A on Competency 1, a B on Competency 2, and a C on Competency 3 (and those competencies are required), then the student's section grade is a B, the average of the 3 competencies. Grades roll down: If the student earns a C+ in the course, they automatically earn a C+ on each of the required competencies, too.

These are merely default settings for when courses and sections get created. Users with permission can change the settings for each course, section, and student-section.

Credits

Decide whether to use credits for CBE elements. If so, do their credits roll up to determine the section credits?

If "Use credits on CBE elements" is deselected: CBE elements don't get credits. If "Credits roll up from CBE elements" is selected: If the student earns 1 credit on Competency 1, and 1 credit on Competency 2, and 1 credit on Competency 3 (and those competencies are required), then the student's section earns 3 credits. If "Credits are defined on the section" is selected: The CBE credits are not related to the course credits.

Hours

Decide whether to use hours for CBE elements. If so, do their hours roll up to determine the section hours?

If "Use hours on CBE elements" is deselected: CBE elements don't get hours. If "Hours roll up from CBE elements" is selected: If the student earns 1 hour on Competency A, and 1 hour on Competency B, and 1 hour on Competency C (and those competencies are required), then the student's section earns 3 hours. If "Hours are defined on the section" is selected: The CBE hours are not related to the course hours.

Transcript

You can have CBE elements show on transcripts in either or both of these ways or not at all:

• Below each course

• At the end of the transcript

Configure Competency Based Education