Current situation or problem:

The number of students enrolled in a course is not displayed or recorded for each course. The ability to record this information is needed for copyright clearance and reporting purposes.

Use case(s)

• record enrollment for copyright tracking purposes (since cost for copyright clearance is often charged by number of enrolled students in a course)

• run reports based on most popular courses offering reserves (using enrollment as proxy for a course being "popular") to demonstrate use of materials and make purchasing decisions

Proposed solution/stories

• Create a "Number of students" field as a text-entry field on the course object

  • the courselisting object is shared between crosslisted objects, and libraries may wish to note enrollment numbers by each course, not the total across a crosslisted set of courses - hence putting it on the course object.

• For editing a course, the field should appear on the second line (which currently has Course code and Section - Number of enrolled students would be a third field). The SIG feels this would look best if it was three fields that were all the same length across the basic course information pane.

• field should not be required

• For viewing a course, display the "Number of students" field in the Course Data section as a fifth item on the first row.

• If a course also has crosslistings, display the "Number of students" field in the crosslist information as viewed on the course view pane, as a fifth item - see screenshot for example
  

• When the course record is saved, the field should be checked to make sure it's a number > 0; if not, an error message should be returned and the record should not be saved.

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