This guide will tell you how to set school entry requirements in the application form, to use at enrolment.
You can set your flagging system so that students who are not meeting your school requirements on enrolment are clearly flagged by the system for your teachers.
Navigate to Settings > Enrolment Settings and then scroll to the Enrolment Red Flag Settings section.
Here, you can set Specific and General Requirements as well as Average and Total Point Score requirements.
You should calculate your APS and/or TPS requirements based on your entry policy and these can then be typed into the boxes as shown above. You can add one, both or neither (leave at 0 if not using).
Here is an example of setting your general requirements. In this example, it may be that students must have five GCSEs at grade six. Click the green edit icon to add these requirements like so:
The default option is set to "all grades". This will mean any GCSE grades a student adds in their education step will be taken into account, in the example shown above. You can change this to "average of top grades" instead, so it will only consider the highest grades a student has listed.
You can also add extra qualifications in the "type" field, so you could ask it to take GCSEs and BTECs into consideration, for example.
The "Grade/Average Grade Score Required" field enables you to specify either that a certain number of Grade 6s, for example, is required; or that in the case of taking an average of their grades, their grades must average out to 6.0.
The "Number/Number of Student's top grades used" field allows you to set how many qualifications they need to achieve at a certain grade (if using the All Grades setting) or how many of their grades (from highest to lowest) should count in calculating their average (if using the Average of Top Grades setting).
You can also add specific requirements, which are filtered from your Specific Requirements area (Settings > Subject Options > Specific Requirements). For example, if you need all applicants to have a Grade 4 or above in English Language and Maths, you could set that up as a specific requirement like so, and it would then be available for you to select in your enrolment settings area.
Any student who does not meet this criteria on results day/at the point of enrolling will be labelled with a red flag in your Details to be Checked area.
In addition to the Red Flag settings, you can also set your system to colour-code applicants based on meeting the specific requirements of the courses they have opted for. This works by checking each applicant's subject choices against any specific criteria you have put in place:
Green = student meets all requirements for all selected courses
Amber = students meet the requirements for some of their selected courses
Red = students have not met any of your specific entry requirements for the courses they have chosen
The colour-coding comes into effect when you have the setting "Restrict student course selection by entry requirements" turned off, so that students can select any courses. When teachers come to see the students in the Details to be Checked area, they'll have the colour coding to show them whether students meet the requirements or not.
Note: If you have the "Restrict student course selection by entry requirements" turned on, students can only select courses for which they meet the criteria, so the colour-coding is then surplus to requirements, because effectively students can only select courses which would be green anyway.