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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Change in support

Academic Support Resources has made organizational changes to integrate the services provided by the ASR Training and Support team across three ASR departments.

Questions related to CCS or Astra should be sent to ocmsoftwarehelp@umn.edu

Summer CCS opening and new session dates to choose

Collaborative Class Scheduling (CCS) in PeopleSoft will be available for initial build on Friday, October 4, 2019 for May/summer 2020 (1205) class schedule production. It will be open until November 6, 2019. The following resources for scheduling classes are available:

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Roll forward for May/summer session 2020 (1205)

Class data entered into CCS rolls forward from the same term in the previous year (e.g., summer 2019 to summer 2020) as a convenience to schedulers. We will roll forward classes for May/summer session 2020 (1205) on Tuesday, September 17, 2019. This happens two weeks prior to CCS Open - Initial Build to allow for behind-the-scenes data clean up.

As a reminder, classes with the following criteria will not roll forward:
  • Cancelled sections
  • Tentative sections
  • Undergraduate Topics classes
  • Classes with zero enrollment (excluding directed studies and research)
  • Undergraduate classes scheduled in Extended Regular Session (session 011)

Fall 2019 final exam room scheduling

Fall 2019 final exam room scheduling will begin soon. OCM only assigns final exam classrooms for classes that meet in general purpose classrooms. Final exams for classes that meet in departmental spaces need to be scheduled within their respective departments.

For classes not holding an in-person exam during finals week, notify us by emailing ocmsched@umn.edu by Tuesday, October 1, 2019. Please use the subject line “Fall 2019 Final Exam” and include the subject designator and class section number(s) in the email text. In particular, it is helpful to know when large, lecture classes will not be using their classroom during exam week to fulfill special requests for other final exams requiring large classrooms.

The Final Exam Change Request form is due by October 1, 2019. It must be used by any class that has a need to change their final exam date, time, and/or room

All event requests made through Astra Schedule for finals week are held in our queue until all final exams are scheduled. Astra Schedule event requests should be used to schedule review sessions, but should not be used to secure classrooms for final exams. If you are unsure how to submit your request for an exam room, email ocmsched@umn.edu.