josephcslater / WSU-SIBI-Prereq-Check

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WSU-SIBI-Prereq-Check

You need to:

1. Install the github app.
   • You don’t need to make an account (anymore). Please don't. (regular github users are fine- but adding an account for those who aren't will just create more confusion)

3. Install Python
   • You should see a big green button under Python 3.6 version. Click it and agree to all of it.

3. Decide where you want this. I suggest inside your documents folder, make a folder named prerequisite_checks. Inside that folder, make a folder called SIBI_Reports (no spaces).

4. Please create the prerequisites.xlsx file- put it inside prerequisite_checks.

   • Each column header is the name of the course, each row below is a required prerequisite. If prerequisites can be satisfied multiple ways, add more columns for the course (as per the example… which is a fictitious example).
   • Each column represents a different way to satisfy the prerequisites.
   • You should likely name it EE_prerequisites.xlsx or such. Whatever you name it, leave it where it is. No changing after I visit to set up.

   For example, the Excel file prerequisites.xlsx contains the following:

   ME2120	ME2120	ME3120	ME4321
   EGR1010	MTH1234	ME2120	ME3210-C
   ME1040

   This means that:

   • there are two ways to satisfy the prerequisites for ME2120 (no space allowed):

   • Either MTH234
   • or (ME1040 and EGR1010).

   • there is one way to satisfy the prerequisites for ME3120: ME2120.
   • there is one way to satisfy the prerequisites for ME4321: a C grade or higher in ME3210

5. Create a transfer spreadsheet

   • This is useful for
     • Temporary acknowledgment of prerequisite fulfillment prior to transfer credits being posted
     • Graduate students who don’t have undergraduate courses transferred and evaluated formally.
   • An example is given as Student_prerequisite_data_Example.xlsx (click on the link to download it).
   • Put the file inside prerequisite_checks.
   • This spreadsheet allows you to note that you’ve agreed that a course requirement has been completed for the sake of satisfying prerequisites.
   • This is useful when considering transfer students whose transcripts have yet to post so that you avoid false warnings.
   • You don’t have to use it, but you must provide the empty one (where you may add to it later).

Usage

Once this is all set up by me, you:

• Put your **raw unedited**[1] SIBI reports inside SIBI_Reports (I know, right?)

• Method 1:

• Select Anaconda Prompt from your Windows menu.

• Method 2:

• Double click on the file named Check_Prerequisites.py.

• Watch the text go by until it tells you that it's done.
• Close the window and enjoy your refined results.

This won’t complete the process, I will have to:

• Install the WSU-SIBI package - Run the Anaconda Prompt (now on your windows start menu, in the Anaconda3 folder) - execute pip install -e . in the root directory for the prerequisite package.

• Run the Jupyter notebook and configure to your settings

• Save the script and notebook to a better location.

• Edit the ipython lines out of the script file.

• Edit activate.bat in the folder (Sometimes located elsewhere- run anaconda prompt and it will briefly show at the top of the window)

  C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts and add the line

  python (pathto)Check_Prerequisites.py.

• Demonstrate how to use it.

However, doing all of the above will mean that we won’t have to wait while I do the above things for you (or worse, we don’t have the files ready and I have to come back later.).

[1] You know who you are... don't!