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title: Prerequisites for Educational Characteristics Configuration
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description: Before you create educational characteristics and requirements for enrollment eligibility, set up Course Search and Registration.
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# Prerequisites for Educational Characteristics Configuration

Before you create educational characteristics and requirements for enrollment eligibility, set up Course Search and Registration.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud and Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations for Experience Cloud add-on</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d74154e71">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d74154e71 ">To turn on Advanced Academic Operations and set up Course Search and
              Registration:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d74154e71 ">Education Cloud Full Access</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d74154e71 ">To edit relevant objects:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d74154e71 ">Education Cloud Advanced Academic Operations Admin Access</td>

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1. [Turn on Advanced Academic Operations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_advanced_academic_operations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Advanced Academic Operations to extend Education Cloud with student information system (SIS) capabilities that streamline and automate academic processes.").
    
    Advanced Academic Operations is required for Course Registration.
2. [Set up Course Search](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_course_search.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To make upcoming and past courses and section details easily searchable on your Experience Cloud site, configure Course Search.").
    
    Course Search is a necessary prerequisite for Course Registration.
3. [Set up Course Registration](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_course_registration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To streamline students' course registration on your Experience Cloud site, turn on Advanced Academic Operations and assign the appropriate permission sets.").
    
    Educational characteristics define attributes for students to determine eligibility for course registration.
4. Make the necessary objects available to Experience Cloud users.
    
    [Set your external organization-wide sharing defaults](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.security_owd_external_setting.htm&type=5&language=en_US) to give Experience Cloud users Public Read access to these objects.
    
    - Educational Characteristic
    - Educational Characteristic Type
    - Educational Characteristic Assignment
    - Educational Characteristic Requirement
    - Educational Characteristic Requirement Assignment
    - Educational Characteristic Requirement Relationship