Education Success Type Definitions

Important

Information and features vary according to the roles to which you belong and the permissions associated with those roles. For more information, contact your module manager or your campus support team.

Overview

Use this page to create and maintain Education Success Type definitions, and associate them with the appropriate Advising Requirement Codes. Education Success Levels and Education Success Types are primarily used in state reports for Texas but are available for any school to use. For Texas state reporting, these types are used to categorize Developmental Courses and Interventions that students receive into four main types: Stem Math, Non-Stem Math, Reading, and Writing. Non-Texas schools can create and use whatever types they find helpful for categorizing and tracking courses.

Desktop Location

You can also maintain these definitions in Desktop, on the Education Success Types Definitions window.

Database Location

Codes created here are stored in the educ_success_type_def table.

Where Education Success Type Definitions Are Used

Education Success Types are used in Texas State Reporting and associated with. Education Success Levels are used to indicate courses categorized as developmental or interventional, and the Type definitions are used to categorize those courses into four main types: Stem Math, Non-Stem Math, Reading, and Writing. These values are used in Texas state reports, and also for catalog courses in Desktop on the Catalog window - Reporting Data tab, and in Advising Requirement Trees for the Texas Success Initiative Student Status reporting calculations.

Permissions

The permission to define and edit Education Success Types is in the Registration Module Manager and Registrar default roles.

How To

View Education Success Type Definitions

From the Registration Administration hub, under the Hub options drop-down window, click Manage Definitions, and select Education Success Types Definitions.
Enter characters, words, or phrases in the Quick Filters to limit the list of definitions.
Click a heading to sort the list by that column.

Tip

You can also use the page search in the upper right corner of J1 Web. Just start typing the name of the definition page you want, and select it in the results.

Create Education Success Types Definitions

Click the Create definitions button.
Enter a unique Code, required, up to 10 characters. If used for Texas reporting, the Code should be one of these values:
1. STEMMATH
2. NONSTEMMATH
3. READING
4. WRITING
Enter a Description, required, up to 255 characters.
In the Associated Advising Requirement field, begin typing to see options to choose from.
In the Active field, select a status.
Click either Save and create another or Create and close.

Edit Education Success Type Definitions

Click the Edit icon on the row of a definition. The edit pop-up opens.
All fields may be edited except the Code, which cannot be changed. The fields are described under the How To Create Education Success Type Definitions, above. Edit the available fields as needed.
Click the Update button.

Manage Drop-Down Display and Priority of Definition

The Edit Order options let you set the order of definitions in drop-down menus and how they are prioritized when used.

In the Edit Order window, change the order using either the Sort By and Order drop-down menus or the drag and drop option.
1. Sort By and Order:
  1. From the Sort By drop-down, select the column you want to sort by.
  2. From the Order drop-down menu, select Ascending or Descending.
2. Drag and drop:
  1. Hold your cursor over the arrow icon on the left side of the row until the cursor changes to a hand icon .
  2. Click and hold while you drag the definition to the new location.
  3. Release the mouse button.
Click Update.

After you click Update, your changes are saved in the following ways:

The definitions are listed in the saved order whenever they appear in drop-down menus (where a user selects from the list of definitions).
If the definitions are used in calculations or rules where priority matters, the definitions are now in your saved order of priority.
The definitions page is now sorted according to your changes.

Delete Education Success Type Definitions

Select the checkbox next to each definition you want to delete.
Select Delete from the Options drop-down. The Delete Definitions? pop-up opens.
The Delete Definitions? pop-up lists the selected definitions in two categories:
- Ready to Delete: Definitions that can be deleted.
- Unable to Delete: Definitions that can't be deleted, either because they're in use or are protected by the system.
If you decide not to delete one or more of the definitions listed under Ready to Delete, click the Remove icon to remove them from the list.
When you're sure you want to delete all the rows listed under Ready to Delete, click Yes, delete.

Download Education Success Types Definitions

Download to Excel

Select the checkboxes next to the rows you want to export.
From the Options drop-down, select Download to Excel. The Download to Excel pop-up opens.
Select options for the Excel format and data columns.
sidebar. Download to Excel Options
Workbook Creation Options: This option lets you choose how you want the data to be organized when it's exported. If you are exporting a large number of rows, you may want to separate the data into different worksheets or even workbooks. Once you select this option, the Separate (Sheets or Workbooks) By drop-down becomes available so you can choose the groupings for each worksheet or workbook.
Separate (Sheets or Workbooks) By: This field becomes available when you choose to organize your export into multiple worksheets or workbooks. In general, you'll have the option to separate the data based on the columns. You will only see options for the visible columns.
Notice
For example, if you are exporting a set of definitions, you might choose to organize the data into two workbooks: one for active definitions, and one for inactive definitions. Do this by selecting the "Active" column in this drop-down. All of your rows designated as active will be in one workbook, and the inactive ones in a separate workbook.
Workbook Format: This section lets you set some Excel display options for your data. For more information about each of these features, consult Microsoft Excel help.
Autofit columns: Fits column width to the data so that fields are not truncated.
Turn on filtering: Turns on the AutoFilter feature, which allows you to show only rows that meet your selected criteria.
Freeze Top Row: Your worksheet displays the column title in the first row by default. Selecting this option keeps the top row at the top so that as you scroll down through your data, the column headings remain displayed.
Show totals for numeric columns: This option will include the sum of a column of numbers at the bottom of that column.
Columns to Include: These options are specific to the page you are viewing, so they will vary. You will only see options for columns that you can see on the page. All of the columns are selected by default, but you can deselect any of the columns you don't want to include.
Click Download. Your .xlsx or .zip file is saved in the file location that you have set in your browser settings.