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general:scheduling_campus_ms_sections_body_scheduling

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Add new course-sections:

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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.

Multi Svc Ind

Select if the instructor of the course must perform more than one service during the class.

Include UIL Elig

Select if the course is used in determining six-week eligibility for extracurricular activities. University Interscholastic League (UIL) rules allow some courses to be exempt in determining six-week eligibility.

This field exists on the campus section record (Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Sections) as well as the district course record (Maintenance > Master Schedule > District > Courses). Both fields affect the Student Grades (UIL Eligibility) Report in TeacherPortal.

• If the field contains a value in the course-section record, that value is used.

• If the field is blank in the course-section record, the field on the district course record is used.

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.

Non Campus Based

Select the code indicating if the course taught off campus (e.g., college campus-based and Internet-based courses).

On Maintenance > Master Schedule Generator > Generate Campus Schedule > Sections, this field displays 00 (i.e., not applicable) and cannot be updated on this tab. However, this setting can be updated once the master schedule has been accepted and the sections have been moved to Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Sections.

Dst Lrng

Select the code indicating if the course is taken through distance learning technology.


Under Section Information:

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Pop Srvd

Select the code indicating the student population primarily targeted for the section.

Crs Seq

Select the code indicating the sequence of the course, which is not necessarily the semester in which the course is taught.

Instruct Sett

Click to select the instructional setting used when providing instruction to the students in the section.

Wks/Mnth

Select the code indicating the weeks of the month the section meets. For most sections, select option 04 (Week 1, 2, 3, and 4).

Class Type

Select the code indicating if the section class type is regular or non-regular.

Examples of non-regular class types are in-school suspension, school-community guidance center, alternative education school program for discipline, televised instruction, non-disciplinary alternative education, special education setting, or residential care and treatment facility.

PK Curricula

Select the curricula used in the district’s prekindergarten program section. This field is required if service ID is 01010000 and should be blank for all others.

TWEDS Data Element: PK-CURRICULA (E1579)

High Qual PK Prog

Indicate if the campus-course-section participates in a High Quality PK Program consistent with requirements in TEC 29.167-29.171. This field is required if service ID is 01010000 and should be blank for all others.

Stu Instr

Indicate if the student attends full day, half day morning, or half day afternoon. This only applies to course-sections that use the Pre-Kindergarten Service ID (01010000). This field is required if service ID is 01010000 and should be blank for all others.

PK Sch Type

Select the PK program offered at the campus for that course-section. This field is required if service ID is 01010000 and should be blank for all others.

Home Room Ind

Select if this section of the course is the student's home room. The home room period may be the convention for taking daily attendance.

This field applies only to PK and KG course-sections.

TWEDS Data Element: E1440 (used for ECDS)


Under Restrictions:

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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).

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.

In the adjacent + field, type the number of additional grade levels that are eligible to take the course.

For example, if the course is for 7th and 8th grade students, select 07 in the Grd Restr field, and type 1 in the + field.


Under Course Codes and Credits:

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Dual Crdt

Select the code indicating if students are eligible to receive both high school and college credit for the course.

Adv Tech Crdt

Select the code indicating if this is a high school course for which college credit may be awarded by a post-secondary institution under a local articulation agreement or the statewide Advanced Technical Credit (ATC) program agreement.

• A course can be reported as either dual credit or ATC, but not both.

• For ATC courses, one of the Special Consider fields must be set to A, which indicates on the AAR that it is an articulated course. When the student graduates and attends a college in the statewide, articulated course network, he can receive credit for the course.

AAR Use

Select the code indicating the academic area in which the course is a requirement. This code determines where the course is displayed on the AAR Multi-Year (SGR2047) report.

Grad Plan Use

Select the subject area to which the course should be applied on a graduation plan, if other than the course's service ID type.

Special Consid

Select up to two codes indicating special considerations for the course. The codes cannot be the same for both fields. Special considerations are printed on the student's AAR (SGR2047).

College Credit Hrs

For each semester (up to four semesters), type the number of college credit hours the student will earn for the course.

Values greater than 0 are only valid if Dual Crdt is 1.

If Dual Crdt is 1, at least one College Credit Hrs field is required.

OnRamps

Select Y if this course is an OnRamps dual enrollment course coordinated by The University of Texas at Austin.

TWEDS Data Element: ONRAMPS-DUAL-ENROLLMENT-INDICATOR-CODE (E1597) (Code table C088)

Edits:
• The field can only be set to Y for high school credit courses.
College Credit Hrs cannot be 0.

NOTE:
If blank, the district-level setting is used.

The campus-level setting (Y/N) overrides the district-level setting.


District Information

Fields from the district master schedule are displayed for your reference.


Under Campus Information:

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The Grade Rstrctn fields from the campus course record (Maintenance > Master Schedule > Campus > Courses) are displayed for your reference.


To add a meeting time for the section, click +Add in the lower grid. A blank row is added to the grid.

You must set up at least one meeting time for each section.

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Meeting

A sequential number is displayed for each meeting time you add.

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
Class Role

Select the code indicating the role served by an instructor for the class.

• 01 - Teacher Of Record
• 02 - Assistant Teacher
• 03 - Support Teacher

Role ID

Select the code indicating the capacity in which the instructor serves the students during the section.

Rule: If the Role ID is 033-Educational Aide, the Class Role must be 05-PK Classroom Aide, and vice versa.

CTE

Select if the Teacher of Record for this Career & Technical Education (CTE) course meets CTE requirements.

CTE FTEs are calculated utilizing this field.


Click Save.


To retrieve and edit existing course-sections:


search drop-down

Select the field by which you want to search for courses.

search

Type all or part of the search phrase. The search retrieves courses that begin with the characters or numbers you typed.

Examples:

• For Course Number, type 101 to retrieve all course numbers that start with 101. You must include leading zeros.

• For Title, type ENG to retrieve all course titles that start with ENG.

• For Period, if you type a one-digit period, it is zero padded to two digits. The search retrieves courses with section meeting times that fall within the specified Per Begin/End fields.

• Leave blank to retrieve all courses.


Click Retrieve.

A list of courses that meet the specified criteria is displayed in the upper grid.

  • The list can be re-sorted.
  • If there are multiple pages, page through the list.


NOTE: Courses that do not have any sections (i.e., new courses) are not listed.



Review and update course-sections as needed.


general/scheduling_campus_ms_sections_body_scheduling.1545080336.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018/12/17 15:58 (external edit)