Wildcarding and searching in eStudent

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Wildcarding and searching in eStudent

All JCU subject codes consist of six characters. To demonstrate what the text and numbers mean, we have used the example of CU1010.

CUSubject in the discipline of communication
1Year level of the subject
010Subject number

Sometimes you will be required to choose subject/s from an option list. This list can be quite large and therefore slow down your search and make if harder to find the subject of your choice. To help make your lists more manageable, eStudent gives you the ability to write your own wildcards to search for subjects.

Wildcard searches use the % symbol to retrieve data. See example below:

Screenshot showing how to do a wildcard search.