We have assigned most classes for fall 2024 classes into general purpose classrooms (GPC). Please review room assignments for fall 2024 and encourage instructors to view room assignments on the Class Schedule. Instructors may also view GPC capacities and room layouts on OCM’s Room Search.
Please notify ocmsched@umn.edu if you need assistance with any room change requests.
If you no longer plan to offer a class because of low enrollment, the class needs to be canceled in CCS as soon as possible and before the start of the term. Failure to cancel a class in a timely manner will have negative financial aid and degree progress impacts on students.
Starting Monday, August 26th, ASR will formally review each class cancellation request and follow up with departments regarding specific concerns. This review includes an individual degree progress and financial aid impact assessment of each student currently enrolled.
For canceling classes with students enrolled, please do the following:
For canceling classes with zero enrollments, no review is required:
You can have a positive impact on classes and students when you enter complete and correct instructor information. Maintaining accurate information gives instructors appropriate access to their:
Students also benefit from knowing who their instructors will be as they begin their semester. CCS schedulers should verify the following instructor information per class section for fall 2024:
You can also run the Classes Missing Instructor Information report found in the MyU Reporting Center, under Student Services, then Course Scheduling. This report identifies active scheduled classes with enrollment that do not have any instructor information listed, per college.
As a reminder, the auto enroll from waitlist process will run for the last time the day before a session begins, and the waitlists will be deleted the first day of the session.
For fall, the auto enroll process will run for the final time on September 2, 2024 for all regular sessions and 1st half of term classes. The waitlists will be deleted on September 3, 2024.
If you wish to keep a record of who was on the waitlist for a class and in what order, we suggest saving a copy of the list prior to its deletion. Also, if you want formally waitlisted students to be able to register before other students, add departmental or instructor consent to that class section. Students need to obtain a permission number before they register, and those permissions can be given to the students who were on the waitlist first.
If you use a reserve capacity for a class, remember ASR will release all reserved seats on the Friday before the first day of class for each semester. For the fall ‘24 semester, all reserved seats will be released on August 30th, 2024.
If an in-person or blended class is planning to have an in-person final exam, the Final Exam Request form must be filled out to request a classroom. This same form can also be used to inform us of any final exam changes (date/time or alternate seating). You can submit up to five classroom/change requests per submission.
The deadline to submit these requests for fall 2024 is November 8, 2024.
CCS opens soon to make emergent changes to spring 2025 classes. Queued registration for spring 2025 begins Tuesday, November 11, 2024. To ensure the greatest success for students, please make sure to finalize the following information in the class schedule prior to registration:
The Board of Regents voted to change the name of Nicholson Hall to 216 Pillsbury Drive, its address, until University leaders select a new name for the building. Campus Maps and exterior signage have already been updated. OCM has also updated many of the places where this prior building name was listed in various systems and websites, including the Class Schedule and Astra.
The Scheduling team is conducting monthly user workshops. We hope these workshops will allow us to connect with our users and review topics relevant to our departmental schedulers.
These workshops will be 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.
Upcoming topics
If there is an upcoming topic you would like to discuss, please feel free to send your questions/concerns to ocmsched@umn.edu. Also, if there is a topic you would like to discuss in future workshops, please let us know.