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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For your reference <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> upac-request@list.arizona.edu [mailto:upac-request@list.arizona.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hensley, Martin B - (hensleyb)<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 09, 2013 2:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> UPAC (UPAC@list.arizona.edu)<br><b>Subject:</b> [UPAC] Improvement to Tier I Exceptions Pairing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’re happy to announce that additional improvements have been made to the exceptions pairing page that will help with exceptions made to Tier I areas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Previously, if a transfer course was substituted to a Tier I line advisors would have to manually select all related courses they wanted to excluded. That is a time consuming and monotonous process, so most of the time transfer courses were not paired meaning a student could complete a Tier I area with two classes that were of the same thematic area.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The improvement to this page will automatically select other Tier I courses within a theme once the advisor selects one of those courses for pairing (for example, all 170Cs, 160Bs, or 150As within a requirement).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In this example, let’s say the ELCR 1TR transfer course is similar to ANTH 150A1. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=446 height=313 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE9352.68A7C5B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the past, an advisor could choose ANTH 150A1 as the paired course but the student would still be able to fulfill the Tier I INDV area with ART 150A1 unless the advisor manually checked it and all the subsequent 150A courses. Now, however, checking any of those 150A courses will automatically check the others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=266 height=225 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CE9352.68A7C5B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When the “Pair” button is clicked all of those courses are paired with the ELCR 1TR and thus excluded as options for Tier I INDV:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=582 height=253 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CE9352.68A7C5B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On the advising report you’ll see a list of those excluded courses:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=332 height=177 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image009.jpg@01CE9352.68A7C5B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Those course will also no longer display in the Courses Available section on the advising report:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=533 height=259 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image011.jpg@01CE9352.68A7C5B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The goals of this modification are to make advising reports more accurate and more easily align the advising reports with the intent of the advisor’s exception. Pairing courses, in Tier I or anywhere on the advising report, provides students with better course predictions on their Smart Planner. The modification also helps ensure that students are fulfilling the spirit of the Tier I areas by taking courses in different thematic areas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please note, that once you check a course and other courses are selected you do have to manually uncheck them all. This is so you can uncheck any of the courses you don’t want to be paired, should you choose. If you accidentally check the wrong course the easiest way to fix the problem would be to cancel out of the Pairing page without saving and then going back in to the Maintain Course Replacement page. This action will nullify any changes you had made on the Pairing page. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please let us know if you have any questions,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brad Hensley<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Business Analyst, Senior<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University Information Technology Services<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>