Confirm room assignments for spring semester

Room assignments for spring 2016 (1163) are available on the Class Search. Please review assignments for your department to ensure all classes requiring a general purpose classroom have been assigned. If a class does not need a classroom assignment, please notify ocmsched@umn.edu. 

OCM only finds a general purpose classroom for classes with a blank Facility ID in CCS. If the Facility ID field is populated, OCM will not actively look for a classroom for your class. This includes being populated with a virtual space, such as ROOM000TBA or AHCROOMTBA.

  

Room assignments are subject to change prior to the start of the term. While this usually only affects a small number of classes, OCM encourages instructors to verify their classroom assignment before the first class meeting.

Releasing reserved seats for fall (1159)

If reserved group seats have not been released by departments, OCM will do so for fall 2015 (1159) on Friday, September 4. Reserved group seats are always released the Friday before the first day of class each semester.

You may choose to release reserved seats prior to September 4 to increase enrollment. Guidelines for the Management of Reserved Group Seats are available to help department schedulers determine the appropriate release date. For questions on how to release reserved seats, contact the Student Records Training Team.

Are you offering that class this fall 2015?

There are a large number of classes in the fall 2015 (1159) class schedule that have a room assignment but no enrolled students (or fewer than 6 students enrolled). If you do not plan to offer a class, cancel the class in CCS as soon as possible. Changing the enrollment capacity to zero and checking the "no print" box in CCS will not release the classroom assignment.

Notify OCM Scheduling if you need assistance to cancel a class or moving a small class to a departmental space.

Fall final exam room scheduling to begin soon

Fall 2015 final exam room scheduling will begin mid-September. OCM only schedules final exams for classes that meet in general purpose classrooms. Final exams for classes that meet in departmental space need to be scheduled within the department.

Email OCM Scheduling with any course sections that do not require a classroom during finals week. Use "Fall 2015 Final Exam" for the subject line and the course and section number(s) in the body. 

Additional helpful resources:

• Final exam regulations, Fall 2015
• Fall 2015 final exam schedule
• Fall 2015 common exam times

Save the dates for Scheduling U

All schedulers are encouraged to attend Scheduling U this fall to learn about new information regarding scheduling. Sessions will be held October 26-30, 2015. Offerings will take place on both Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. More details will be announced soon.

ASR Training Team feedback request

The ASR Training Team is looking for your feedback on one of their training tools. Please take their two-minute survey on the User Productivity Kit (or UPK, for short) - even if you've never used it or heard about it before, because that's important feedback, too.

Reminder: Finding a Class List

For faculty, instructors, and their assigned proxies, the class list and roster information can be accessed through the "Teaching" tab of the new MyU. This opens a list of courses, which can be clicked through to open the Faculty Center and access class rosters either through the class roster icon, that looks like a group of people, or tab. This information can be downloaded to Excel by clicking on the table icon with the red arrow, or printed by clicking the "Printer Friendly Version" link at the bottom of the page. Learn more with the PeopleSoft Faculty Center guide »