Articles on: SchoolPoint

Course Selection- Exemptions- All about them

Exemptions





Allowing Exemptions



You can allow students to request exemptions when adding courses. This means that students can request an exemption to get into a course when they wouldn't ordinarily be able to. They will need to also enter a small note explaining why they wish to take this course. You can customise the message the students sees when choosing an exempt course. Most schools write something like " If you are successful in obtaining a place in this course, which course in your list will you swap out / replace this with?" that way admin can swap the course for the students. See warning below about this in more detail.

Please NOTE: If a student selects a course which requires them to apply for an exemption, it will NOT use up one of their course spaces until it is ACCEPTED. Hence why the message to the student should read as per the above- what course will you swap out if this exempt courses approved.

Customise under Settings => Customisable Messages

Customise the Exemption Message Students see with Instructions

Exemptions are set up under Settings => Course Selection => select yes to "If a student does not meet the requirements or pre-requisites for a course, allow them to request an exemption"**
Or within a course you can make the course selectable "By Exemption Only"



Automatically Created Exemptions



This will be done automatically if the course is full- so when the total number of students allowed to take a course is at the maximum number, they will automatically be advised the course is full, and they can request an exemption, or choose another course.

Edit course details => then add the maximum number of students under : "The maximum number of students to select this course across all option lines


Managing Exemptions



If you have selected that Teachers in Charge (TiC) can manage exemptions within their own courses- so they will only be able to manage their own areas, then:

Search Course > Edit Course > Scroll to Teacher in Charge option. Select the staff member in charge of the course. They will then be able to receive exemption request notifications. Also, ensure in their permission group they have ticked "Approve or Move Students within their Selected Courses", and "Manage Assigned Learning Area Only". Don't select "Manage all Courses Exemption Requests" unless you want them to have access to ALL exemptions in all Departments/ Faculties.

Via the "Edit Course" or the "Manage Exemptions" tab, the staff member can enter notes under the exemptions students have requested, under pending requests. Either just save a note for another person to read/ approve, or you can enter a note, Save and Accept and then Archive these approved/declined requests accordingly to filter them out. You can also go into the admin under the search student and approve or decline their exemption there. This will allow you to write a note for the student to see when they log in to check their courses also.

Courses= > Manage Bulk Exemptions


IMPORTANT: When you approve an exemption request- your student is automatically added into the exempt course. The Staff or the student will then need to go in to "replace" one of the already selected courses with the exempt course if the student is at their max course selection criteria. Admin with permissions can do this via searching the student in the "student details" screen" or students can do this when logging in as usual to access courses.

There is now the ability to "Restore Requests" from the Archived area.

Check the notification box under the notes area if you want to notify your student via email about the outcome of their exemption.


Exemption Reports



There are now 4 new reports which you can use to manage/monitor exemption requests. There is also a "Detailed Export by Year Level" Report which allows you to see all the students in a course by year level and their Exemption request notes. 

Export pending exemptions requests
Export archived exemption requests for previous year
Export ALL Exemption requests (pending and archived)


Reports > Course Exemption Requests

Updated on: 12/09/2023

Was this article helpful?

Share your feedback

Cancel

Thank you!