When placing a course, click View Chart to review the report and identify the best period to place the course at that time.
❏ Select the course to be placed:
Course to be Placed |
Type or click to select the first pre-placed course to be placed. |
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View Chart | Click to view the placement charts, which will help you determine the periods in which to place sections. Review, save, or print the report. |
❏ Under Sections:
Sec | Type the number of sections for the course. |
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Seats | Type the number of seats available for the section. |
Team Code | (Optional) Type the one-character team code for the section. When MSALGO determines which sections meet all of a student's restriction criteria, if there is a team code in the section record, it will check the student demographic team code for a match. |
MSALGO uses the following rules for the order of placement:
Singletons (i.e., courses that are only offered once) are placed first. Within the singletons, the sections are placed sequentially from highest to lowest number of total potential conflicts.
Example: Courses 1004 and 2003 are both singletons. Course 1004 shows 223 conflicts, while course 2003 shows 145 conflicts. MSALGO selects course 1004 to be placed before course 2003.
Once all of the singletons are placed, MSALGO moves on to the doubletons, and so on.
This process continues until all sections have been placed on the master schedule.
❏ Under Meeting Times:
The meeting times for the selected section are listed. A course-section must have at least one meeting time and can have up to four meeting times.
❏ Click +Add to add a meeting time. A row is added to the grid.
Sec-Meet | 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. |
Frm To | Select the beginning and ending periods when the class begins and ends. |
Instr | Click to select an instructor. |
Room | Type the room number in which the class meets, up to four characters. |
Days | Select the code indicating the day(s) the class meets. |
Delete a meeting time.
1. Click to delete a row. The row is shaded red to indicate that it will be deleted when the record is saved. You can select multiple rows to be deleted at the same time. You can save edits and delete records in the same step (i.e., the changes are all committed when the record is saved).
Meeting time 1 cannot be deleted. At least one meeting time is required for each section. |
❏ Click Save.
This updates the Courses to be Placed ellipsis lookup with information about any sections that are now placed. It also automatically retrieves the next course to be placed, as determined by MSALGO.
You can save data at any time.
Next Crs to Place |
Click to retrieve the next course to the Course to be Placed field, which will be the first course not completely placed that has the highest priority for placement, as determined by MSALGO. KEEP IN MIND: You can override the suggested courses at any time. However, it is to your advantage to follow the MSALGO logic as closely as possible. |
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❏ The course with the most conflicts is displayed first.
Course to be Placed |
A course number is automatically displayed. This is the course that MSALGO determines should be placed first. To select another course, click to select the course. |
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❏ Place all singleton courses as described previously.
❏ Click Save.
This updates the Courses to be Placed ellipsis lookup with information about any sections that are now placed. It also automatically retrieves the next course to be placed, as determined by MSALGO.
You can save data at any time.
Next Crs to Place |
Click to retrieve the next course to the Course to be Placed field, which will be the first course not completely placed that has the highest priority for placement, as determined by MSALGO. KEEP IN MIND: You can override the suggested courses at any time. However, it is to your advantage to follow the MSALGO logic as closely as possible. |
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Before continuing, it is recommended that you back up the MSALGO tables in case you need to start over from this point.
Scheduling > Maintenance > MSALGO > Process > Utilities
❏ Select Backup MSALGO Tables:
This option backs up MSALGO tables. This process creates a zipped file.
The Password and Verify Password fields are displayed.
Password | Type a password for the file. To restore this file using the Restore MSALGO Tables utility, the user must type this password. |
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Verify Password | Retype the password to confirm that you typed it as intended. |
❏ Click Run Process.
❏ You are prompted to open or save the zipped file. Save the file in a known location.
CAUTION:
❏ Place all doubleton courses as described previously.
CAUTION: When changing section numbers, the updated section number must be unique.
❏ Click Save.
This updates the Courses to be Placed ellipsis lookup with information about any sections that are now placed. It also automatically retrieves the next course to be placed, as determined by MSALGO.
You can save data at any time.
Next Crs to Place |
Click to retrieve the next course to the Course to be Placed field, which will be the first course not completely placed that has the highest priority for placement, as determined by MSALGO. KEEP IN MIND: You can override the suggested courses at any time. However, it is to your advantage to follow the MSALGO logic as closely as possible. |
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Before continuing, it is recommended that you back up the MSALGO tables in case you need to start over from this point.
Scheduling > Maintenance > MSALGO > Process > Utilities
❏ Select Backup MSALGO Tables:
This option backs up MSALGO tables. This process creates a zipped file.
The Password and Verify Password fields are displayed.
Password | Type a password for the file. To restore this file using the Restore MSALGO Tables utility, the user must type this password. |
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Verify Password | Retype the password to confirm that you typed it as intended. |
❏ Click Run Process.
❏ You are prompted to open or save the zipped file. Save the file in a known location.
CAUTION:
❏ Place all tripleton courses as described previously, and so on.
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