April
May
Final exam week is rapidly approaching for spring 2024. The list of final exams and common exams that have been scheduled is available on the Spring 2024 Final Exam and Common Exam Scheduled Rooms spreadsheet.
If you do not see a class on that list and know the class intends to have an in-person final exam, please fill out the final exam request as soon as possible.
Final exams for spring 2024 begin Thursday, May 2. The last day of exams is Wednesday, May 8. Official University final exam schedules are available online.
General purpose classroom hours will be extended on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5 to meet the needs of students and faculty during finals week. Weekday hours will remain unchanged during finals week. See standard operating hours.
During finals week, weekend classroom and building hours will be adjusted as follows:
After final exams week, we will return to our standard operating hours.
Be sure to carry your U Card with you at all times. Most buildings will require your U Card for exterior building access.
Please contact ocmsched@umn.edu about May/Summer classes if:
At this time, we are still working on getting classrooms assigned for fall, and around 5% of classes still need classrooms. Classroom availability for large lecture halls is very limited. We may not be able to accommodate enrollment capacity increases or meeting pattern changes for certain times of the day. Please check with ocmsched@umn.edu before making any changes.
As a reminder, OCM only works to find general-purpose classrooms for classes that are lecture or discussion sections with a blank Facility ID in CCS. If a class is typically held in a specific departmentally-owned classroom, please assign those classrooms to those classes.
If the Facility ID field is populated, OCM will not actively look for a classroom for your class. This includes populating it with a virtual space, such as:
If a class has one of these virtual rooms assigned and it now needs a classroom, contact ocmsched@umn.edu.
All room assignments are subject to change prior to the start of the term. While this usually affects only a small number of classes, we encourage departments and instructors to verify their classroom assignments before the first class meeting.
Queued registration for fall 2024 begins Thursday, April 11, 2024. To ensure students have the greatest success, please make sure to finalize the following information in the class schedule prior to registration:
If any of the above information needs to be changed after students have registered, email ocmsched@umn.edu to determine if changes may still be made.
The class permission number batch process has already run and created permission numbers for fall 2024 classes. This process only runs once for a semester. What does this mean for newly created class sections? You will need to create permission numbers for those sections. Please follow this guide on how to create permission numbers per class section.
Academic Support Resources (ASR) and Office of Classroom Management (OCM) have an active Request for Proposals (RFP) for the University’s academic room scheduling system to ensure that the tools we use meet the evolving needs of the institution and comply with University policy. Astra is the University’s current academic room scheduling system vendor.
At this point, we have received vendor responses and conducted demos and usability with two finalists, and we have made reference calls to determine a fit with the University's needs. ASR is working with Purchasing, the Office of the General Counsel, and University Information Security to negotiate a contract with our top finalist. More information will be available, including a project timeline, when a contract is signed.
Please join us for our monthly CCS user workshops. These workshops allow us to connect with our departmental schedulers and review relevant topics.
These workshops are conducted over Zoom on the second Tuesday of the month from 11:00-11:30 a.m. (15–20 minute presentation with time for discussion).
To attend a workshop, simply add the class schedule production calendar to your Google Calendar:
A Zoom meeting link and materials will be added to the calendar event closer to the day of the workshop.
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