{"id":4375,"date":"2025-10-20T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:55:06","slug":"enrollment-pre-requisites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/enrollment-pre-requisites\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment Pre-Requisites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This resource provides guidance on what to expect when a student encounters a class with an associated pre-requisite in MyBU Student that they have not fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-top: 10px solid #669999; text-align:right; margin-block-end: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/mybu-student-glossary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Glossary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/06\/Glossary-icon.png\" alt=\"Glossary Icon - Click here for MyBU Student Glossary.\" width=\"55px\" height=\"55px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/10\/Enrollment-Pre-Requisites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"PDF Guide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/05\/PDF-icon.png\" alt=\"PDF Icon - Click here to download full PDF resource.\" width=\"55px\" height=\"55px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following information outlines the student&#8217;s experience when a pre-requisite has not been met:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There are many methods to enroll in a class, including through the Schedule Builder, Shopping Cart, or from the Class Search. Those instructions can be reviewed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/methods-of-registration\/\">Methods of Registration resource<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A department determines if a class requires pre-requisites. If attempting to enroll in a class that does have pre-requisites defined and the student has not satisfied them, they will receive a message with those details. This will prevent them from registering for that class.<\/li>\n<li>If the student would like to review their options, <strong>they can reach out to the department that has defined the requirement<\/strong>.\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom:0px; margin-bottom:0px;\">In this example below, the student is trying to enroll in CDSDS 340 (8464), however they have not taken any of the classes listed as pre-requisites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The registration into CDSDS 340 therefore does not complete.<\/li>\n<li>Notice that the student was still able to successfully register for CDSDS 563 (8551).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/10\/prereqenr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/10\/prereqenr.png\" alt=\"This image shows the text of the pre-requisite not met message when trying to enroll.\" width=\"450\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/icon?family=Material+Icons\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<p class=\"alert\"><span class=\"material-icons\">&#xe002;<\/span><strong> TIP<\/strong>: Reminder that there may be other items in the results message. For example, if the student has a hold or a time conflict, those issues will also display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Pre-requisite information will also display if the student uses the <strong>Validation<\/strong> feature before enrollment. More details on that process can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/preparing-for-registration\/\">Preparing for Registration resource<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>For a downloadable quick card, please click the PDF icon above.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This resource provides guidance on what to expect when a student encounters a class with an associated pre-requisite in MyBU Student that they have not fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,26,45,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}