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Course Request Tallies

The Course Request Tallies display the number of students requesting each course in total, by gender and by grade.

Use the Course Request Tallies to determine how many sections of each course to offer and to identify courses which should not be offered due to insufficient demand. The gender and grade subtotals allow you to detect certain types of course request errors; e.g. a female student requesting a male PE class or a grade 9 student requesting a grade 12 English course. You can also use these reports to identify courses which have been removed from the course file but still have students requesting them.

The Course Request Tally by Number of Requests, displaying courses sorted by number of requests (total enrollment) is displayed when this group of reports is started. From this window, you can navigate forward and backward through the course entries or switch to a different sort order.

Sample Report

Course Request Tally by Number of Requests

The Course Request Tallies can display courses sorted by number of requests, course ID and Course Title.

How to Select Other Course Request Tallies

The reports menu appears near the top of the window. When you first open the Course Request Tallies, the menu box displays “--Select Sort Order--” and Course Request Tally by Number of Requests is displayed as the current report.

To view another report:

Click on the down arrow on the right of the box. The list of available reports is displayed.

Click on the report you want.

Click the “Start” button.

The report you selected appears on the screen. This may take several seconds.

How to Read the Course Request Tallies

Each Course Request Tally report is displayed on one or more pages. Use the Next and Prev buttons to move through the pages. The Start button takes you to the first page, the End button takes you to the last page. On each page use the scroll bar, arrow keys, Edit-Find command and other navigational mechanisms provided by the browser to move through the currently displayed page. The report heading remains fixed over the data rows.

Each report option displays a Course Request Tally in a different sort order; the data row for each course contains the same data elements in all sort orders. The following data elements are displayed:

Title	Description	Example	Comment
COURSE	Course ID, unique code for course	0473	Left justified as character string, max of 14 wide
TITLE	Course title, short title from Course atom	French III	Width truncated at 18 characters, “Invalid” is used if the course ID matches no Course atom
REQUESTS	Group heading for total and gender subtotals
TOTL	Total number of student requests for the course	10	Right justified nonzero number
MALE	Number of requests for the course by male students	4	Right justified, leading blanks, 0 value displays 0
FEML	Number of requests for the course by female students	6	Right justified, leading blanks, 0 value displays 0
REQUESTS BY GRADE	Number of requests for the course by grade	11 8	List with one data group for each grade to which a student requesting the course belongs. Each entry in the list shows the grade and, below it, the number of requests for the course by students in that grade. The example shows 8 grade 11 students requesting the course.

Specify Maximum Enrollment for Courses Included in the Report

This feature allows you to filter out courses with enrollments larger than a maximum you specify. Enter the number you want in the "Max enrollment" box, then click the Start button and you will see the report showing only occurs with total enrollment up to the maximum entered.

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