Timeline templates

A timeline template is used to represent specific regulations of a programme in the PGR system. Whenever a student enrols, they will usually be assigned to a specific version of regulations, requiring them to complete PGR milestones at set deadline within the PGR journey. A timeline template is the representation of these deadlines and allows to roll out all compulsory milestones for a student's programme automatically.

A few important notes and disclaimers on this process:

• Once the milestones have been rolled out they can only manually be amended (or deleted), so extra care should be taken in this step to avoid extra work
• If the student interrupts, and the interruption is one that according to regulations changes their deadlines for milestone submissions, all milestones following the interruption can be "pushed" by a given number of days (to be indicated upon creating an interruption)
• Timeline templates are a convenience function for admins only. The system will simply instantiate the milestones defined in a template to make an admin's work easier. However, if the template is not correct, the entire student's journey will be incorrect.

It is hence essential that admin check the correctness of an entire student's timeline after they have enrolled!