The purpose of this service is to award a single credential to one or more students. This service will be mainly used in the bulk processing of students during the regular credential awarding periods. Since this service only awards one credential per student listed it must determine which credential to award based on credential requirement sets achieved and credentials previously awarded.

The service can be accessed by systems with the PASI System User role.

The following information is provided when using this service:

• One or more Alberta Student Numbers

The following rules are used to validate the information provided in the request:

• Rule 9002 - Invalid ASN
• Rule 9023 - Empty Update
• Rule 44000 - No Achieved not Awarded Credentials
• Rule 44008 - Awarded School Year Cannot Be Determined
• Rule 44011 - Credential To Award Could Not Be Determined
• Rule 44012 - Higher Order Credential Already Awarded
• Rule 44013 - Credential Management on Deactivated ASN
• Rule 44014 - Credential Management on Secondary ASN

Produce a new Student Credential/Awarded Student Credential record for each specified ASN:

• Credential Type = See Credential Order for the order of credentials to be awarded
• Credential Number = See Credential Number Calculation Logic for Credential Number creation
• School Year =
  • If the credential being awarded is the Certificate of School Completion then use School Year from the most current non-deleted school enrolment record
  • If the credential being awarded is a result of credential requirement set High School Equivalency Diploma: Alternative 2 being Achieved, then use the most current GED official mark or GED School Year – Data Conversion official mark record with a mark value of A, B, or C
  • Otherwise, use School Year from the most current official mark record with credit awarded
• Awarded Student Name = Current Legal Name Student Name: last, first, middle, and suffix where applicable
• Awarded On Date = the current date

For each student being awarded:

• a credential a Transcript Trigger is created as the awarding of the credential may impact eligibility of other credentials
• a Responsible School Processor Trigger will be created for the student with a Last Updated Object Name reflecting the student awarded credential object.

The usage of this service is audited using Service Auditing including the auditing of Caller Information.

When awarding a credential impacts the student's Maturity Date, a Course Enrolment Status Processor Trigger will be created for any of the student's Course Enrolment records with a Course Enrolment Start Date that is between the old and the new maturity date.

For each ASN in the request, the following Student Credential information is returned:

• Credential Number
  • If the awarding was successful, the new number OR
  • If the awarding was unsuccessful, 0
• PASI Core Version
• Alberta Student Number
• PASI Core Rejections