Academic Structure

An important precursor to utilizing the Campus Cafe platform is establishing the institution's academic structure. The academic structure serves as the underpinning for academic data such as semesters, majors, courses, individual classes and transcripts and drives student financials and student financial aid. As such, ensuring a proper and complete academic structure is a necessary first step for Campus Cafe operation.

Because configurations build on one another, they should be completed in a specific order. This guide is presented in the common way to approach configurations to ensure data integrity. Because much of the configuration is stored in system cache, Campus Cafe encourages users to run the Refresh Data Cache after each portion of configuration by navigating to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.

Order of Operations

Since many academic setups built upon one another, this documentation is broadly arranged in the order in which institutions should approach the academic setup.