Scheduling Update: September 24, 2010

Electronic Course Scheduling (ECS) in PeopleSoft is now available for the May/summer 2011 class schedule production. Please review the summer 2011 important dates,class schedule production instructions and summer session scheduling guidelines to help you schedule summer session classes.

Read the rest of this update, featuring a guide to calculating hours for May and summer session classes, information about updating instructor information for fall 2010, and news on class search updates, or view the scheduling update archive.

Scheduling Update: September 1, 2010

This summer Robert McMaster, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education, established a working group to consider the current practices for reserving seats in course sections for particular cohorts of students. The recommendations from the group are as follows:

• Departments should have the authority to reserve seats within departmental courses for department priorities.
• Approval for requests of reserved seats initiated by specific colleges, departments, and/or programs outside the home college/department of the course is at the discretion of the individual college and/or departmental home of the course.
• If seats have not been previously released by departments, Academic Support Resources will release all reserved seats on the Friday before the first day of class each semester.
• All reserved seats, including those held for departmental priorities, must have a start and release date.

Read more from this update, featuring guidelines for the management of reserved group seats, a link to the scheduling production calendar, and important upcoming dates, or view the scheduling update archive.