Prioritize graduation requirements

Your district can prioritize its graduation requirements. That way, Aspen will apply credits for required courses to a student's graduation requirements before applying them to non-required courses.

Example: High school students in your district must take four years of English to graduate. Assume a student has three English credits at the end of his junior year, then takes an English course during senior year that satisfies his graduation requirement. If that course is also an elective, you want Aspen to apply the credits to the student's graduation requirement first, and then apply them to his electives requirement after the graduation requirement is met.

To prioritize graduation requirements: 

1. Log on to the District view.
2. Click the Schedule tab.
3. Click the Programs of Study side-tab.
4. Select the program of study you want, and then click Requirements on the side-tab.
5. If the Priority column appears, skip to step 6. If the Priority column does not appear:
   1. Copy or edit the default field set.
   2. Add the Priority field to the default field set or the copy.
6. To prioritize the graduation requirements, click Options > Modify List.
7. Click in the Priority column, and then type a value in any (or all) of the blank fields.

Note: The lower the Priority number, the higher the priority. The lowest priority is 1. Zero (0) indicates no priority.

Example: You could assign a priority of 1 to your core required courses, and then assign a 10 to the electives. Other course requirements could have numbers in between. Or, you could assign a priority of 1 to your core required courses, and leave the elective courses as 0.