Web Sign On Attribute change: warwickcoursecode

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1. Mathew Mannion

   #1 14:41, Wed 4 Feb 2015

   Web sign-on currently returns a "warwickcoursecode" attribute as part of the sentry response for a student. Contrary to its name, this is currently not the course code at all, but the route code.

   Our intention is to make a change so that this attribute genuinely returns the course code for a student, not their route code.

   If this is likely to cause a problem for your service, pleaes let us know as soon as possible.

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2. Andrew Taylor

   #2 15:01, Wed 4 Feb 2015

   Hi Matt,

   This is interesting as I also associate route code as being the course code. What actually is the course code? Our sitebuilder systems use webgroups rather than the SSO variable so we'll be unaffected.

   Andrew

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3. Mathew Mannion

   #3 16:17, Wed 4 Feb 2015

   In this post Andrew Taylor wrote:

   Hi Matt,

   This is interesting as I also associate route code as being the course code. What actually is the course code? Our sitebuilder systems use webgroups rather than the SSO variable so we'll be unaffected.

   Andrew

   Hi Andrew,

   A course may have multiple routes. Taking a couple of example students, a student may be on the course UPHA-V7MM (Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Intercalated)) but be on either route V7MQ (Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Bipartite) (with Intercalated Year)) or route V7MS (Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Bipartite with Economics Major) (with Intercalated Year)). A route is, in effect, a pathway to study a course, and it's the route that leads to a module diet.

   Mat

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4. Andrew Taylor

   #4 16:18, Wed 4 Feb 2015

   Thanks Mat, thats clear.

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