Contents of the Tuition Assistance Preferences Screen

The Tuition Assistance Preferences screen displays the following fields and columns.

Tuition Assistance Caps

Field	Description
Job Family	If you are setting tuition caps based on job families, select a job family (such as Administrative or Sales) from the drop-down list. If you are setting one cap for the whole organization, select Company from the drop-down list.
Amount	Enter the total amount of tuition assistance that an employee can receive in a fiscal year.
Job Family	When you add a tuition assistance cap, the job family displays in the table below. You must click the to activate the cap.
Amount	When you add a tuition assistance cap, the amount displays in the table below. You must click the to activate the cap.

Tuition Assistance Dispositions

Field	Description
Disposition Name	Enter the name of a new disposition. For example, you may want more information about why tuition requests are being rejected. In addition to the Denied disposition, you may add the dispositions Not Relevant to Job and Unqualified Trainer.
Parent Disposition	Select Approved, Denied, or Cancelled. The new type will be based on this standard type. For example, Cancelled by Student would be based on Cancelled.
Disposition	This column lists all of your dispositions.
Protected	You cannot edit or delete the three default dispositions: Approved, Denied, and Cancelled. Therefore these are considered protected and identified by a Yes in the Protected column. All other dispositions have a No.
Parent Disposition	This is the standard disposition (Approved, Denied, or Cancelled) on which a new disposition is based. For standard dispositions (Approved, Denied, or Cancelled), the parent disposition is Self.
Actions	This column displays the actions that can be taken for each item in the table.

Tuition Assistance Types

Field	Description
Type Name	Enter the name of a new tuition assistance type (for example, Online University).
Sort Order	Enter a number to specify the order in which the new tuition assistance type displays in lists. For example, if you enter 3, the type displays as the third type in any list of types.
Parent Type	Select Internal or External. The new type is based on this standard type. For example, Online University would be based on External.
Admin Only?	Designate a tuition assistance type as Admin Only if you want only administrators to see and use it.
Type Name	This column lists all of your tuition assistance types.
Sort Order	This column shows the order in which tuition assistance types display in lists.
Protected	You cannot edit or delete the two types: Internal and External. Therefore these are considered protected and identified by a Yes in the Protected column. All other dispositions have a No.
Admin Only?	A Yes in this column means that only administrators can see and use the tuition assistance type.
Actions	This column displays the actions that can be taken for each item in the table.

Actions

The buttons and icons on the Tuition Assistance Preferences screen perform the following functions.

Icon/Button	Action	Description
	Tuition Assistance Administration	Click this button to display the Tuition Assistance screen, where you can view open and closed tuition assistance requests and assign dispositions to open requests.
	Add	Click this button to add a new tuition assistance cap, disposition, or type.
	Activate	Click this icon to put a tuition assistance cap into use.
	Deactivate	Click this icon to take a tuition assistance cap out of use.
	Edit	Click this icon to edit the information for a tuition assistance disposition or type. You cannot edit the default dispositions (Approved, Denied, and Cancelled).
	Delete	Click this icon to delete a tuition assistance disposition or type. You cannot edit the default dispositions (Approved, Denied, and Cancelled) or types (Internal and External).