Use

are groups of students for whom the same administrative processes apply. You can group students using the Cohort Builder.

Integration

When you assign students to a cohort in the Cohort Builder, you can use selection methods .

Prerequisites

You have made the systems settings for cohorts in Customizing for Student Lifecycle Management under Student Lifecycle Management Processes → Cohorts

Features

You can define the administrative processes for cohorts by assigning cohort contexts to them. The SAP standard system contains the Module Booking cohort context (key 0001). This context is used to group students who attend (have booked) the same business events and for whom you can therefore plan events simultaneously.

You can assign context objects to cohorts. The system uses these context objects as additional information on how to execute the administrative processes that refer to a particular context. In the Module Booking cohort context, for example, you can assign the modules or business events that a particular group of students attends or will attend to a cohort.

You can arrange cohorts in hierarchical order. Cohorts can contain subcohorts or belong to main cohorts. All students in a subcohort always also belong to the higher-level main cohort. All context objects of a main cohort always also belong to the lower-level subcohort. You can distribute the students from a cohort to a subcohort. To do this, make the required settings in Customizing for Student Lifecycle Management, by choosing Student Lifecycle Management -> Student Lifecycle Management Processes -> Cohorts ->

You can assign cohorts to organizational units, programs, and program types. Furthermore, you can define sessions of offering and capacities for cohorts.

You can perform mass module bookings, based on cohorts.

Activities

You create and edit cohorts using the Cohort Builder which you can access from the SAP Easy Access screen by choosing SAP Menu → Student Lifecycle Management → Tools → Cohort Builder

You can assign students to cohorts via the cohort builder or student file.

You can also edit the cohorts with a Module Booking context to a limited extent using event planning functions. In the Edit Event Offerings for Cohorts transaction, you can assign business events to cohorts as context objects and remove these again.

If you want to use cohorts in user-defined programs, you can use the methods of interfaces IF_HRPIQ00COHORTS_QUERY and IF_HRPIQ00COHORTS_CAUD in class CL_HRPIQ00COHORTS_GENERAL. The system also calls these methods from the cohort builder. You must use these methods when you edit cohorts. If you edit cohort data in any other way (for example with transaction PP01), data inconsistencies are likely to occur.