Overview
The Count This Course feature allows academic advisors to manage which courses count toward degree requirements when students have completed conflicting or excess coursework. This functionality addresses scenarios involving anti-requisite courses and repeated course attempts. This feature provides advisors with flexibility to optimize course combinations for each student's degree progress by allowing manual override of the system's automatic matching decisions.
This feature is automatically enabled for all partners and requires no additional setup or configuration.
Required Permissions
Count this Course permissions are assigned through the make_exception permission. See the Stellic Permissions Reference to learn more.
Use Count This Course
Count this Course is only available if the course is eligible for swapping. A course is eligible if the course is tagged with the repeated course tag or the antireqs tag.
Navigate to the Student tab in the left Stellic panel
Search for the student whose audit you're working on
From the student's profile, scroll down to the Unmatched Courses section
To swap an unmatched course for one currently counting in the student's audit, click the three-dot menu (⋯) next to the course title
Click Count this Course
A confirmation dialog opens displaying the updated course logic
Click Submit to approve the change
A screenshot of an eligible course for course counting
Use Cases
Anti-Requisite Courses
When a student completes two courses that are anti-requisites of each other, the audit system can automatically determine that only one can count toward degree requirements. The system designates one course as counting toward degree requirements, and moves the other to "unmatched" status. This determination is controlled by institution-wide settings in the admin panel. There are separate settings for anti-requisite courses and repeated courses.
Anti-Requisite Scenarios
Case #1: Simple Two Course Conflict
Student completes MATH 101 and STAT 101 (anti-requisites)
System allows one course to count, moves the other to unmatched
Advisor can easily swap which course counts using Count This Course
Case #2: Three-Course Conflict
Student completes MATH 101, STAT 101, and DATA 101 (all anti-requisites)
System selects one course to count, moves remaining two to unmatched
Advisor can swap any unmatched course to become the counting course
Case #3 Partial Conflict
Student completes MATH 101, STAT 101, and DATA 101
MATH 101 conflicts with both STAT 101 and DATA 101
STAT 101 and DATA 101 are not anti-requisites of each other
If MATH 101 is selected to count: STAT 101 and DATA 101 become unmatched
If STAT 101 is selected to count: only MATH 101 becomes unmatched (DATA 101 can still count)
Repeated Courses
For courses that allow multiple attempts to count towards degree requirements, the system handles excess attempts through an ordered matching process.
Example Scenario:
Course allows 5 repetitions maximum
Student has completed 7 attempts
System matches the first 5 attempts
Remaining 2 attempts become unmatched
Swapping Mechanism: The feature operates as an ordered list where swapping a course moves it to the top position, and the bottom matched course moves to unmatched status.
Step-by-Step Example:
Initial State:
Matched Courses:
1. Course A
2. Course B
3. Course C
4. Course D
5. Course E
Unmatched Courses:
- Course F
- Course G
After swapping in Course F:
Matched Courses:
1. Course F (moved to top)
2. Course A
3. Course B
4. Course C
5. Course D
Unmatched Courses:
- Course E (pushed out)
- Course G
After swapping in Course E:
Matched Courses:
1. Course E (moved to top)
2. Course F
3. Course A
4. Course B
5. Course C
Unmatched Courses:
- Course D (pushed out)
- Course G
This ordered list approach allows advisors to prioritize specific course attempts while maintaining the maximum repetition limits.