Is it possible for a course to have two names.

Richard Pan

I have a course that has two groups within the course. They meet at the same time, in the same location but one group is a beginner group and the other one is an advanced group. I'm afraid if I create two separate courses in the same location there will be a scheduling conflict.

Candace Chesler

@Richard Pan - each section of a course can have it's own name. Our grade level Math Courses have sections with names like - Algebra, Geometry. Similarly our History course in sixth grade has section names that relate to the course content.

Richard Pan

@Candace Chesler Can the two names show up report card though?? Can some students in that course have one name while the others have another name? And it be represented on the report card and transcript?

Richard Pan

@Richard Pan I guess the bigger question is: Can the class identifier become the name that appears on the report card rather than the course name. I don't see a solution like that though. @Candace Chesler

Candi Roberts

@Richard Pan You need to create two courses. That's our experience.

Petra Hall

@Richard Pan If the report card template looks at the Course ID field, then all students in the same class who use the same report card template get the same Course ID. You could, I suppose, have four different templates (two report cards and two transcripts), where one pulls the Course ID and the other pulls the Course Name… No. That's a terrible suggestion. Maintaining that year over year would be a nightmare, and if I implemented something like that I would deserve to be mocked by my successors!

@Candace Chesler is right. You'll need two different courses, one class of each course, both taught in the same place and time. It's more initial overhead to set up separate courses, create separate classes, and then schedule the classes at the same time, but it means all classes in your database can get the same treatment, all the reports will turn out correctly, and it'll be very clear to the teacher which student is (technically) in which course.

Richard Pan

@Petra Hall Thanks!!