The Manage Questions page allows you to add program questions and answers can add or change information presented to a student on a plan.  This functionality allows schools to ask u.select users questions about their intentions or past academic history.  These questions could be used to add a minor to a program or find out if a student has completed a state transfer module or degree.  Much of the terminology used for the field names are DARwin specific, but questions and answers may be incorporated to be used by other degree audit systems.

When importing questions and answers, you will need to import the question file FIRST, then the program file in order to ensure that the questions are linked up correctly with their corresponding programs.

Adding Questions & Answers

Import Method

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• Open a notepad file

• Enter the program questions in the following format as a pipe/comma/tab delimited file:

Questions

Answers

While questions and answers are listed separately, they can be combined into one file and do not need to be imported separately.

Example:

QUESTION|0|OTM|Have you completed the Ohio Transfer Module?|I|
ANSWER|OTM|1||Yes|C|73|OBR||true|TRANMOD||000000||0.0|P|||||||
ANSWER|OTM|2||No|N||||false||||||||||||
ANSWER|OTM|3||Maybe|M||||false|||||||$MARKER|R|Name|||CD|

Manual Method

To add a new question:

1.  Click the Add Question button

2.   Enter the following Fields

• Question Description: A unique identifier for the question
• Question Text:  The text that will be displayed to the u.select user
• Question Type:  
  • School - displays for every program run for your school
  • Program - displays only when plans are run for a certain program
  • Follow up - displays after another question is asked and answered

3.  Click Save

To add a new answer:

1.  Click the Edit button by the Question that you want to add answers to

2.  Click Add Answer

3.  Enter the text for the answer

4.  Choose whether you want the answer to add a Pseudo Course, Marker Requirement, or Nothing to the plan

• Pseudo Course:  Adding a Pseudo Courses adds a fake course to be used in the Transfer processing to cause something to occur for the student in the audit. An example would be if the student completed a subset of GENED, and that generates multiple requirements to have completed areas.
  • INSTIDQ:  InstIDQ associated with the course
  • INSTID:  InstID associated with the course
  • INSTCD:  InstCD associated with the course
  • PCourse Department: The course prefix of the course to be added.  
  • PCourse Number:  The course number of the course to be added.
  • PCourse Title:  Enter a title to show in the student's Plan with this course.
  • PCourse Year Month:  Enter a Year and Month in CCYYMM format for the course.
  • PCourse Credit:   Enter credit hours to be assigned to the course for the inclusion in the request.
  • PCourse Grade: Enter a grade to assigned to the course. The grade given should match a grade given for the institution identified in the INSTID, INSTID and INSTCD definition with this course.
• Marker Requirement:  Sends a marker requirement or list with the plan request to the degree audit
  • Marker Requirement Type: Select whether to add a marker requirement or list (list of requirements) to the plan.
  • Marker Requirement Name:  Insert the value, beginning with $, currently listed in the degree program definition for the specified program. 
  • Marker Req List Value: Insert the replacement requirement name (RNAME) to be included in the degree audit. The value replaces the $Marker in the degree program definition.
  • Catalog Year/Term:  Specify a Year/Term value if it should be specific rather than the catalog year/term selected by the user in the Request Plan.
  • School Code:  Specify a value if different from the INSTCD defined for your institution in u.select.
  • Control Code:  Enter the Exception Control Code for processing parameters.

• Add Nothing: This will not send additional information to the degree audit.  This is typically used for "No" answers to questions. 

Managing Questions & Answers

Reordering Questions and Answers

To reorder your questions:

• Navigate to the Manage Questions page
• Move questions up or down by clicking the up or down arrow next to the question

  Note: This will reorder the questions for ALL programs and is not customizable per program.

To reorder your answers:

• Click the edit icon on the question whose answers you want to reorder
• Move answers up or down by clicking the up or down arrow next to the answer

Editing Questions & Answers

To edit a question:

1. Click the Edit icon next to the question to be edited
2. Edit the necessary information
3. Click Save 

To edit an answer:

1. Click the Edit icon next to the answer to be edited
2. Edit the necessary information
3. Click Save 

Deleting Questions & Answers

To delete a question:

1. Click the Delete icon next to the question to be deleted
2. Confirm the deletion of the question

To delete an answer:

1. Click the Delete icon next to the answer to be deleted
2. Confirm the deletion of the answer