Edit Subject Area

Screen Description

The Edit Subject Area screen provides administrators with interface for editing an existing subject area.

Details

• Academic Session
  • The academic session for which you are editing a subject area
  • Can be changed from the Academic Sessions screen
• Abbreviation
  • Subject area abbreviation
• Title
  • Title of the subject area
• External ID
  • External ID of the subject area (optional)
• Department
  • Change the department to which the subject area belongs (a subject area has to belong to a department)
    • This option is disabled if there is a timetable committed for the current department of this subject area
    • A new department can be added in the Add Department screen - to get there, click on Departments in the Administration section of the left hand side menu
• Funding Department
  • The department funding the classes for this subject area if they are funded by a department other than the department to which the subject area belongs.
    • This field is not visible by default.  To enable this field the unitime.courses.funding_departments_enabled application property must be set to true.

Operations

• Update (ALT+U)
  • Save changes and go back to the Subject Areas screen
• Delete (ALT+D)
  • Delete subject area and go back to the Subject Areas screen
    • This option is only available if there are no courses offered for this subject area
• Back (ALT+B)
  • Go back to the Subject Areas screen without saving any changes