These notes supplement Facility's documentation and are intended as a guide to help choose between the different ways of setting up regulations.

1. One from either course A (1 unit) or course B (1 unit) or course C (1 unit) (e.g. see BSc Economics and Economic History, paper 5 (p54))

If no conditions have been applied to taking any of these options then, depending on the length of the list, one could either, in the regulation details (regulation composition) screen :
a) select the 'Module' radio button, select course A, press the New button, select course B, press the New button etc
b) or first create a Module Group containing Modules A, B, C and then select the 'Grouping' button and then select the Module Group

2. Either Module A (1 unit) or Module B (0.5 unit) and Module C (0.5 unit) (see BSc Economics and Economic History, paper 3 (p.54)).

Set this module up the same as at example 1 (as long as the paper is set up with a 1 unit value then the obligation to take either a single unit module or 2 half unit modules will be enforced by the paper unit value).

3. Module X (0.5 unit) and a paper to the value of 0.5 unit from either List A or List B (e.g. BA Anthropology and Law paper 7 (p52) or BA History paper 1,2,3 (p61))

In essence Module X MUST be taken, and then they can take any 0.5 unit course from Lists A or B. So this paper has two components, the module and a selection from the lists. When a paper has more than one component, or complusory elements, then set this paper up as sub-regulations.
To set up this example first go to the Regulations screen enter the name and unit value of the paper. Then click on the details button and then select 'sub-regulation'. Give the sub-regulation a unit value of 0.5 units. Click on the 'Regulation' button and then choose 'sub-regulation'. Select 'Module' and then choose Module X. Click on New, then OK, then New in Regulation Compostion then Close then, from the regulation Compostion screen, create another sub-regulation, again with a unit value of 0.5 units, but this time, instead of selcting Module X, select Lists A and B.

4. Module X or Module Y or a paper from List G (e.g. BSc Actuarial Science paper 8 (p51)).

Treat this as example (1).

4. Module A or Module C or courses to the value of 1 unit from paper X or paper Y or paper J (see BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics paper 12 (p53)).

Note that this is a different situation from that described in example (3) They do not HAVE to take any module, the paper does not have seperate components as described at (3) therefore you should NOT set this paper up as sub-regulations. In so far as papers X, Y and J can be set up as Module Groups then it is straightforward to treat this paper as another example of (4) , otherwise, if the presence of conditions prevents the modules being set up as a group then one will have to enter the paper's modules from scratch, as if setting up a new paper.

5. ...subject to the approval of Academic Adviser/Course Tutor/Convenor etc

Do NOT enter papers that require approval into CMIS regulations as this will allow them to be chosen by students using the on-line module choice screen. Papers requiring approval must be entered by adminstrative staff who should record the academic adviser's approval when they enter the module. You may, however, publish that a paper is available by approval by using a regulation Note which is entered by clicking on the 'Notes' button in the Regulations screen.

6. Conditions: Module A only if Module B has previously been taken(e.g. BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics paper 8 (Ec202 and Ec210) (p53)).

Conditions are applied to particular modules within a paper. Do not confuse sub-regulations with conditions. Sub-regulations are a way of obliging all students to take a particular combination of modules within a paper. Conditions are a way of limiting the selection of a particular module to students meeting certain criteria. (for more on sub-regulations see (3)).
The condition in the current example requires the student to have 'taken' Module B if they want to do Module A. We need to check whether students who have failed the examination in Module B are eligible to take Module A. If we assume that they do need to have passed the exam then we enter this as follows: go to the Regulation Composition screen, highlight Module A and click on 'Condition'. Select Element 'Module' and then select Module B. Use the drop down list under the mod: drop down list, on the righ hand side, to specify that the student must have 'P', passed this exm. Then click on Modify and OK. Note that one could specify that Module A could only be taken by people who have NOT passed the exam in Module B by clicking the 'Negated' checkbox.

7. Module A may not be combined with Module B(e.g. BSc Business Mathematics and Statistics paper 8 (IS 143) and Paper 11 (ST325) (p53)).

See note on condtions at (6).
In this case one does not care about the exam result achieved by the student so one performs the same operation at at (6) but one omits the exam result parameter and one selects the 'Negated' checkbox.

8. Module X (must be taken in the 2nd year if not already taken).(e.g. BSc Government and History paper 5 (p61), BSc Government papers 9 - 12).

Some course regulations allow a paper to be taken in the first or second year of study, but oblige students who have not taken the paper in the rist year to take it in the second. Other modules will be offered, under the second year paper, to students who have taken the required module in the first year. As this rule is student specific it will be fulfilled by a condition. If the second year paper lists Module X and several other papers then: Make a Module Group of the other papers and apply a condition to the Module Group, to the effect that papers from this group may only be taken in Module X has already been taken. Alternatively apply the same condition to every other module appearing in this paper.

9. Module X (third year only). (e.g. BSc Management Sciences paper 8 (p67)).

This situation can arise where a paper is marked as being available to more than one year of study when modules within the paper may only be taken in a certain year of study. In these cases the paper will be available under two paper numbers, e.g. paper 7 and 8. The solution is to separate the 2 papers out, with paper 7 being specified as a year 2 paper and paper 8 being specified as a year 3 paper. One can then place the year-specific papers in the correct paper and put the non year-specific papers into both papers 7 and 8.