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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Tips and Tricks - Combined Section ghosts....boo!

Most schedulers know that when combining classes on the Combined Sections Table, only one class should have a meeting pattern and instructor information entered on the UM CCS Maintain Schedule of Classes page. The other class(es) meeting pattern(s) are left blank. The meeting pattern and instructor information of the first class will be added to the other class(es) once they are saved together on the Combined Sections Table....magic!

Every once in awhile, we hear from a scheduler who is unable to save sections on the Combined Sections Table even though it appears there is no meeting pattern information for the other class(es). Rather, they get a message that the classes can NOT be combined because they have different meeting patterns.

Very often the solution is simple. Return to the class(es) in UM CCS Maintain Schedule of Classes (Meeting tab), which appears to have blank meeting patterns, and delete the "ghost row" by clicking on the minus button. From there, save, and try again to save the combined sections on the Combined Sections Table. This works spookily well.​