SAP ABAP IMG Activity HR_LSO_M1C3A5 (Create Course Type)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-HRGXX (Software Component) Sub component EA-HRGXX of EA-HR
   ⤷ PE-LSO-TM (Application Component) Training Management
     ⤷ LSO_IMG (Package) SAP Learning Solution - IMG
IMG Activity
ID HR_LSO_M1C3A5 Create Course Type  
Transaction Code S_AX8_68000173   IMG Activity: HR_LSO_M1C3A5 
Created on 20020319    
Customizing Attributes HR_LSO_M1C3A5AT   Create Course Type 
Customizing Activity HR_LSO_M1C3A5PO   Create Course Type 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name HR_LSO_M1C3A5    

In this step, you create course types. A course type is a general description of a course.

Course groups, types, and courses together make up the course offering.

The data you store for the course type is proposed as default values when you create or plan course types. You may overwrite these proposals.

When you create a new course type, you can use an existing one as a reference to copy from. Here, too, you may overwrite the default values that are proposed.

You can maintain the following infotypes for course types:

  • Delivery Method

    This infotype specifies the delivery method used to impart or deliver the course type (e.g. classroom training, Web-based training, virtual classroom).

    The attributes of the delivery method can, for example, tell you whether the course is location-dependent and/or time-dependent.

    Other infotypes must be maintained in connection with the delivery method.

    Example

    If you choose the delivery methods Web-based training or online test, you have to maintain the infotypes Course Content (5006) and Completion Specifications (5008). You do not have to maintain these infotypes for course types with the delivery method classroom training.

    On the initial screen Create Course Type, select the delivery method. If you select a course type that does not require maintenance of infotype 5006, this infotype is not offered for editing on the data screen.

    Notes

    The delivery method Curriculum is not offered for editing course types. When you create curriculum types to which the delivery method Curriculum is automatically assigned, there is a separate transaction available. For more information on this, refer to the documentation of the Customizing activity Create Curriculum Type (in the Implementation Guide for Training Management under Course Preparation).

    For more information on delivery methods see Define Delivery Methods.

  • Course content (only for delivery methods Web-Based Training and online test)

    You use this infotype to create a link between the course type and the documents from the course content repository.

  • Completion Specifications (only for the delivery methods Web-Based Training and Online Test)

    In this infotype you enter the time specifications for location-independent delivery methods (for example, WBT).

    Possible entries:

    • Maximum completion time
    • Minimum completion time
    • Optimum completion time
    • Licensing period specification
      • The course is only available in the period entered here.
    • Last availability date

      In addition, you can specify options for follow-up processing of courses of this type (this overrides the general settings made in Customizing for Training Management under Recurring Activities -> Follow-Up Processing -> Define Learning Progress Control for this course type).

  • Description

    This infotype consists of the subtypes extended course type text, course content, and notes. The texts you store here can be included in the course brochure.

  • Prices

    In this infotype you can store an internal and an external price for the course type.

    The internal price is used for internal activity allocation purposes, while the external price is used for billing purposes.

    You can determine a price proposal for a course by choosing Proposal. This requires that you have already maintained the following data: internal currency costs, capacity, and time schedule. If you want to use the price proposal function, you must first maintain the above-mentioned data and then the Prices infotype (1021).

  • Main schedule pattern

    In this infotype you create a subtype of the Schedule Model infotype that defines the time schedule of a course type. You have the option of creating a schedule with pattern (in the step Define Time Schedule), a schedule without a pattern, or a user-defined schedule.

  • Capacity

    In this infotype you can store a minimum, optimum, and a maximum number of participants for the course type. The capacity that is specified for a course type is used in the first instance as a default value for the capacity (number of participants) that is specified for a course. The total capacity is determined from the course capacity and the room capacity. The Capacity infotype (1024) plays a role in the following functions:

    • Bookings: the total capacity (course and room capacity) defines the borderlines between normal, essential, and waiting list bookings.
    • Resource selection: the system uses the capacity specified for the course when proposing suitable resources for the course. It assigns a suitability value to resources based on this. The closer the capacity of the resource is to the course capacity, the better suited the resource is for the course, and the higher the suitability value assigned to the resource as a result.
    • Price proposal: when determining a price proposal for a course type, the system uses the optimum capacity defined.

      Note

      The capacity stored for the course type is automatically read if no capacity is stored for the course itself.

  • Course type info

    In this infotype you can specify whether the course type is a convention.

    In addition, you can specify whether the course type is to be included in the brochure. When you create the course brochure, you have the option of including only selected course types in it. You make this specification when you set this indicator for the course type.

    The No Intranet indicator lets you specify that a course type is not published in the Learning Portal of the SAP Learning Solution.

    In this infotype, you also make specifications for internal participants and instructors with respect to the Time Management component.

    • No integration: You select this indicator to deactivate integration with Time Management so that no attendance records are written to PT for participants or instructors and no availability checks are performed.
    • Allowed in time off: You select this indicator to allow a person to be booked as participant or instructor regardless of whether time off records exist for the person in PT.
    • Minimum percentage (for participants): You use this option to specify a minimum percentage participation required in a course. The percentage you enter is the minimum time a participant must be present at a course to prevent the booking being considered invalid and automatically canceled as a consequence.
      • The value you enter here overrides the setting for this course type made in the SEMIN TIMEP entry in Specify Attendance Types.
      Note
      The Time Management settings (No integration, Allowed in time off and minimum percentage), which you can specify here, are only displayed when integration with PT is active.
  • Validity period (Depreciation meter/Validity infotype 1025)

    In this infotype you can specify the period of time during which participation of a course is valid as a prerequisite for participation of a follow-up course.

  • Relationships

    In Training Management, information and attributes of objects are stored in infotypes and relationships. You can store the following relationships for course types in the Relationships infotype:

    • "Belongs to course group":
      • Here you specify the higher level course group.
    • "Requires resource type":
      • Here you specify the resource types that are needed to carry out a course of this type.
      Caution!
      You must maintain this relationship if you want to use resources in Training Management.
      If you want to use the resource types Instructor and Material, you must also maintain the following relationships:
      "Is held by" (for the resource type Instructor) and "uses for participant/course material" (for the resource type Material).
    • "Is held by person"/"... user"/"... external person"/ "... contact person":
      • You specify the instructor(s) to be proposed for the course type as a rule here.
    • "Imparts qualification":
      • Here you specify the qualification attained by attending a course of this type. This relationship is used for the check the system carries out for participation prerequisites and when transferring qualifications to participants during follow-up processing. This information is stored in the Procedure infotype, which you also maintain for the course type.
    • "Has prerequisite course type":
      • Here you specify the course type that is specified as a prerequisite for participation. In the Procedure infotype and under Participant Checks you can specify whether a check is carried out for this prerequisite during booking transactions.
    • "Has prerequisite&#
Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
PDST_LSO T - Individual transaction object PVD0 0000000000 Create Course Type 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20020611 
SAP Release Created in 2002_1_46C