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title: Configure Educational Characteristics to Enforce Eligibility Checks During Course Registration
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description: Clearly communicate eligibility criteria to students during course registration. Configure complex eligibility logic on learning courses by using a flexible and scalable framework. Define and assign identity-based attributes to students, such as major, cohort, or honors status, that tie to specific time frames. Automatically evaluate student attributes against eligibility criteria to enforce enrollment rules. Show students the required educational characteristics of each course to help them make informed decisions. Maintain accurate enrollment data and comply with institutional policies.
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# Configure Educational Characteristics to Enforce Eligibility Checks During Course Registration

Clearly communicate eligibility criteria to students during course registration. Configure complex eligibility logic on learning courses by using a flexible and scalable framework. Define and assign identity-based attributes to students, such as major, cohort, or honors status, that tie to specific time frames. Automatically evaluate student attributes against eligibility criteria to enforce enrollment rules. Show students the required educational characteristics of each course to help them make informed decisions. Maintain accurate enrollment data and comply with institutional policies.

**Where:** This change applies to Lightning Experience in Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer editions where the Education Cloud license and the Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations for Experience Cloud add-on are enabled.

**Who:**

- Users with the Education Cloud Full Access permission set can turn on Advanced Academic Operations and assign permission sets to student users.
- Users with the Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations Admin Access permission set can edit relevant objects.
- Users with both the Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations for Experience Cloud Access and the Education Cloud for Experience Cloud permission sets, and the Access Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations for Experience Cloud Users user permission can register for courses in Experience Cloud.
- Users with the Education Cloud for Experience Cloud permission set can view the required educational characteristics for courses in Course Search on the Experience Cloud site.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Enable Advanced Academic Operations in Your Org (can be outdated or unavailable during release preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_enable_advanced_academic_operations.htm&language=en_US)
- [_Salesforce Help_: Enrollment Eligibility (can be outdated or unavailable during release preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_enrollment_eligibility_educhars.htm&language=en_US)
- [_Salesforce Help_: New and Changed Objects in Agentforce Education (can be outdated or unavailable during release preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_edu_new_and_changed_objects.htm&release=260&type=5 "Do more with the new and updated Education objects.")