When a student does not finish a course within the Term and/or School Year they were originally registered for, a school may allow them to continue the course into the next Term and/or School Year. In PASI this is represented by marking the initial Course Enrolment with a Status of “Continuing (Course Enrolment Status)” and having a Course Enrolment that starts after the initial one to ‘continue’ the course enrolment for the student.

For example:

• Student registered for Eng 30-1 at McNally for Semester 1. School creates a Course Enrolment for the student.
• Student was not able to finish the course because of special circumstances
• School decided to accommodate this student to provide an extra month of schooling for the Student to finish the course. In PASI, this is represented by:
  • The School updates the existing Course Enrolment with a “Continuing” status. No mark is submitted for that Course Enrolment.
    • This course enrolment is referred to as the Predecessor Course Enrolment.
  • School creates a new Course Enrolment for the student with an Entry date that is after the predecessor Course Enrolment, to indicate the student is continuing the Course.
    • This new course enrolment is referred to as the Successor Course Enrolment.
  • Once Student finishes the course, the School submits the mark on successor course enrolment which indicates the student has now completed the course.

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Continuing Course Enrolments should be used by the school to indicate that the student intends to finish the work for a course at the same school, just in a longer timeframe than originally expected. It should not be used if student have no intention to complete the course work or if the student moves to a different school.

Continuing Course Enrolments can also be used to span the student's studies over multiple School Years if required (as Section for a single Course Enrolment is tied to a single School Year), for cases such as distance learning where the class schedule does not necessary conform to a traditional School Year schedule.

A Course Enrolment can be a Predecessor when all of the following is true:

• Course Enrolment Status = Continuing, and
• There exists at least one suitable successor for this Course Enrolment

A Course Enrolment can be a suitable Successor when:

• There exist at least one Course Enrolment with a status of “Continuing (Course Enrolment Status)” that satisfies all of the following:
  • Has an Exit Date that is before the Successor’s Entry Date
  • Has the same School Code (derived from the Section Reference ID (Course Enrolment))
  • Has the same Course Code (Course Enrolment)
  • The same Credits Attempted (Course Enrolment), and
  • Not deleted

It is possible for student to continue a course for more than 2 Course Enrolment terms; a 'chain' of continuing Course Enrolments can be established by setting up multiple Continuing Course Enrolments for the same course/student/school. Once the student completes the course work, their mark should be submitted on the last Successor of the chain.

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Note that in the example above:

• CE#3 and CE#2 are both suitable successors to CE#1.
• CE#2 cannot be a predecessor to CE#1 because CE#2's Exit Date is not after CE#1's Entry Date
• CE#3 cannot be a predecessor to CE#1 or CE#2 because its Entry Date is after their Exit Dates.