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Follow these steps to manually create the campus master schedule (section and meeting times) and manually schedule students into course-sections.
The Phase II steps include creating course-sections and meeting times in the next year campus master schedule.
Before proceeding, instructors must be populated from current year Grade Reporting.
There are two ways to manually create sections:
OPTION 1: Manually add section records in the campus master schedule.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Sections
Add new course-sections:
❏ Click +Add in the upper grid.
Crs Nbr | To add a section for a course that has no existing sections (i.e., not listed), click to select the course. The course title and service ID are displayed. |
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Section | Type the two-digit section number you want to add. The number must be unique for the course. |
Max Seats | Type the number of seats available in the classroom. |
❏ Under Restrictions:
Type Rstrctn | Select the code indicating if the restrictions always apply (i.e., fixed) or can be overridden (i.e., selectable) by the user. This field applies to the other restriction fields for this course-section (gender, team, and grade level). |
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Team Code | (Optional) If you are using Team Code, select a team code if you want to restrict section membership to a certain group or team of students. Team codes are established on Maintenance > Team Code. |
Gender Rstrctn | Select a gender if the section is restricted to one gender. |
Grade Rstrctn |
If there are grade level restrictions for the course-section, select the lowest grade level allowed. |
District Information | Fields from the district master schedule are displayed for your reference. |
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Campus Information | The Grade Rstrctn fields from the campus course record (Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Courses) are displayed for your reference. |
To add a meeting time:
❏ Click +Add in the lower grid to add a meeting time for the section. A blank row is added to the grid.
You must set up at least one meeting time for each section.
Meeting | A sequential number is displayed for each meeting time you add. |
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Sem | Select the code indicating the semester(s) the class meets. |
Days | Select the code indicating the day(s) the class meets. |
Per Begin Per End | Select the beginning and ending periods when the class begins and ends. |
Room | Type the room number in which the class meets, up to four characters. |
Time Begin Per End | Type the times when the class begins and ends. Use the HH:MM A format, where HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and A is a.m. or p.m. |
Lckout | Type the one-character alphanumeric code indicating if there is a lunch break after the scheduled class meeting. |
Instr ID | Click to select an instructor. |
Class Role |
Select the code indicating the role served by an instructor for the class.
• 01 - Teacher Of Record |
Role ID |
Select the code indicating the capacity in which the instructor serves the students during the section. |
CTE |
Select if the Teacher of Record for this Career & Technical Education (CTE) course meets CTE requirements. |
❏ Click Save.
To retrieve and edit existing course-sections:
search drop-down | Select the field by which you want to search for courses. |
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search |
Type all or part of the search phrase. The search retrieves courses that begin with the characters or numbers you typed. |
❏ Click Retrieve.
A list of courses that meet the specified criteria is displayed in the upper grid.
You can re-sort the grid by clicking on an underlined column heading. It will sort in ascending order. Click it again to sort in descending order.
A triangle next to the column heading indicates the column by which the grid is currently sorted and whether it is sorted in ascending or descending order.
NOTE: Courses that do not have any sections (i.e., new courses) are not listed.
❏ Review and update course-sections as needed.
OPTION 2: Copy existing course-sections.
Scheduling > Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Copy Course Section
This tab allows you to create new sections in the campus master schedule by copying an existing next year course-section. Once the sections are created, they can be updated on the Section tab.
Course | Select the next year course from which to copy data. |
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Section | Select the next year section from which to copy data. The drop-down list includes the section number, and the begin and end periods. |
Create Section | Type the new two-digit section number(s) to be created. Separate multiple section numbers with a comma (e.g., 04,05,06). |
❏ Click Create.
The grid is populated with the data for the new section(s).
❏ Update the data for the new section(s) as needed:
Sem | Select the code indicating the semester(s) the class meets. |
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Days | Select the code indicating the day(s) the class meets. |
Per Begin Per End | Select the beginning and ending periods when the class begins and ends. |
Room | Type the room number in which the class meets, up to four characters. |
Time Begin Time End | Type the times when the class begins and ends. Use the HH:MM A format, where HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and A is a.m. or p.m. |
❏ Click Save.
Cancel | Clear unsaved changes and start over. |
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