Reserved Courses Settings
Use these settings to determine how long a student can reserve a seat in a course section under various conditions.
Automatically drop students from reserved courses after payment or approval deadlines: When this checkbox is selected, the system drops students automatically when Reserved status expires. When the checkbox is unselected, students with an expired Reserved status must be dropped manually. (When the checkbox is unselected, all the other fields in this section are unavailable.)
How often (in minutes) should the process enforce the deadlines? Must be a positive integer.
Unpaid must-pay courses: Select this checkbox if you want restrictions applied to reserved must-pay courses that are unpaid.
Number of hours a must-pay course can stay reserved: Must be a positive integer.
Unapproved courses requiring advisor approval: Select this checkbox if you want restrictions applied to reserved courses that require advisor approval.
Number of hours a course requiring advisor approval can stay reserved: Must be 0 or a positive integer.
Email student to warn of impending drop of reserved course: Select the checkbox to automatically warn students when reserved courses will be dropped.
Send the email this many hours before the deadline: Must be 0 or a positive integer.
Data is stored in the Configuration Table table (configuration_tabl).
Field | Database Location |
|---|---|
Automatically drop students from reserved courses after payment or approval deadlines | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'AUTODROPRESRVDO' |
How often (in minutes) should the process enforce the deadlines? | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'RESERVECHECKMIN' |
Unpaid must-pay courses | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'MUSTPAYDO' |
Number of hours a must-pay course can stay reserved | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'MUSTPAYHRS' |
Unapproved courses requiring advisor approval | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'ADVAPPROVALDO' |
Number of hours a course requiring advisor approval can stay reserved | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'ADVAPPROVALHRS' |
Email student to warn of impending drop of reserved course | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'AUTOEMAILDO' |
Send the email this many hours before the deadline | configuration_tabl where char_cde = 'AUTOEMAILHRSBEF' |
In Desktop, registration reserved courses settings are on the Registration Configuration window, Configuration Table tab.
The permission needed to view and edit these settings is "Can manage registration limits settings". It's available in the Registration Settings section of the Registration Module Manager role or roles copied from it.
On the Registration Administration hub, click Hub options.
Select Settings and then Registration limits. The Registration Limits settings page opens.
Click the Reserved Courses anchor link, or scroll down to the Reserved Courses settings section.
Click the Edit this section button.
For Automatically drop students from reserved courses after payment or approval deadlines, select the checkbox (unless you want courses whose Reserved status has expired to be dropped manually). If the checkbox is unselected, none of the other fields are available.
Under How often (in minutes) should the process enforce the deadlines?, enter a positive integer.
For Unpaid must-pay courses, select the checkbox if you want restrictions applied to reserved must-pay courses that are unpaid. Then enter a positive integer in Number of hours a must-pay course can stay reserved.
For Unapproved courses requiring advisor approval, select the checkbox to apply restrictions to reserved courses that require advisor approval. Then enter 0 or a positive integer in Number of hours a course requiring advisor approval can stay reserved.
If you wish, select the checkbox to Email students to warn of impending drop of reserved course. Then enter 0 or a positive integer in Send the email this many hours before the deadline.
To abandon your changes, click the Cancel button. Otherwise, click the Save this section button.