Admissions courses are the courses offered by your institution, such as BA English Language and Literature. Courses can be defined for direct applications to the institution, such as postgraduate diplomas, or for applications received through admissions agencies, such as undergraduate degrees.
Courses can be defined with options to combine a major subject, such as English Literature with a minor subject such as French. All courses have modules that are chosen by successful applicants to meet the academic requirements of the course. Entry points and requirements are used to link courses to offers and enable applications to specific courses to be processed at a relevant desk. Standard offers enable entry points to be linked to multiple offer libraries that define the entry requirements for courses.
Courses
Admissions courses are the courses offered by your institution, such as a BA English Language and Literature and a BSc Computer Science.
Admissions courses are defined in the reference data Admissions course. Admissions courses are loaded automatically from integrated student management systems or added manually.
Direct or agency applications
The entry system of courses defines whether applicants apply to the course directly or through an admissions agency. For example, applications apply directly to postgraduate courses and through admissions agencies, such as VTAC, for undergraduate courses.
Course options
Course options, such as a year aboard, are typically separate courses. However, course options can be used to create courses that combine a major subject with a minor subject.
For example, the course English literature BA has the following options:
Bachelor of arts with honours - English literature with creative writing
Bachelor of arts with honours - English literature with French
Bachelor of arts with honours - English literature with German
Course options are defined in the reference data Admissions option and combine admissions courses with award groups and routes. For example, the admissions course English literature BA is combined with the award group Bachelor of arts and the route English literature with creative writing.
For each option, you must define the sequence order that the options are listed when creating an application and the select the admissions course, such as English literature BA, that the option is available for. You must also define the award group, such as Bachelor of arts. The award group should match the intended award level of the course. For example, an admissions option with an award group of Bachelor of arts should not be used for a course with an intended award level of Postgraduate.
The route defines the combination of subjects that will be studied on the course, ordered by major subject followed by minor subject, such as English literature with creative writing. Note that routes with subjects of equal weighting should be ordered alphabetically.
Modules
Modules define the individual units of a course and the credits gained for completing each module. For example, a student on a course accumulates credits by completing modules to reach the required number of credits for that academic year.
Modules are grouped together using schemes. Creating schemes for specific study areas, such as Undergraduate - English allows students taking a course, such as English literature BA to select from all modules that are part of the Undergraduate - English scheme and allows for the creation of modular admissions courses.
Entry points and requirements
Courses have entry points that define the dates of entry for courses, delivery locations, and so on. Courses also have entry requirements based on academic and non-academic conditions. Offer libraries define the entry requirements for the course. Academic conditions are defined by qualifications and non-academic conditions are defined by clearance checks.
Entry points
The entry points of courses are dates and years, such as October start– Year 1 and February start– Year 1. Entry points also define delivery locations, modes of attendance, and so on.
Entry points assign applications to a desk for processing. For example, applications to the English Literature BA (Hons) course are assigned to the languages desk and then processed by admissions officers for that faculty. For more information, go to What are desks?
Entry requirements
The entry requirements of courses are defined for each entry point. Standard offers can define the following for each entry point:
Main decision (Offer 1) of the entry requirements, such as BBB excluding general studies.
Additional conditions (Offer 2) of the entry requirements, such as ATAS clearance for ATAS courses.
The diagram Entry points for courses shows how courses are linked to entry points, standard offers, offer libraries and how entry requirements and points of entry are used as part of the admissions process.
Entry requirements for courses
In addition, courses can also specify interview, audition, or portfolio evidence as part the admissions process. For example, Conservatoires that provide performance-based courses for music, drama, and so on.
Enrolment
Attention.Admissions does not process enrolments.
The enrolment structure should be set up to match the values in the integrated system as applications are transferred to the integrated system for enrolment. Enrolment structure is defined in the reference data Enrolment structure and Enrolment structure type.
