Classroom Scheduling Steps
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Boone & Hickory Campuses
Fall and Spring
Courses belonging to the schedule types, LEC, SEM, WEH, and WLH and not tied to a lab
Large General Classrooms are scheduled as the first step and by request of the Associate Deans to ensure large spaces are available to all departments.
Priority/Partition Assignments are made by the departments within classrooms in departmental partitions.
Pre-Assignment Requests are submitted by departments to the Associate Deans for consideration after the department has identified classroom space that meets instructional requirements that cannot be met by classroom features in their departmental partion; through interdepartmental negotiations, agreements are met and proposed to the Associate Deans.
Technology Assisted Scheduling using the tool, the Optimizer, offers a resource to identify space for courses without a classroom after the priority/partition assignment and pre-assignment phases are complete. Classroom Schedulers are to check results from the Optimizer. Courses not placed or impossible to place will need to be examined for possible meeting pattern changes or other adjustments.
The Classroom Change Request form offers departments a tool to communicate needed room changes to the Registrar’s Office for LEC, SEM, WEH, and WLH courses not tied to a lab; room change requests may be made after the schedule build process and all phases of classroom assigning have been completed; the Classroom Change Request form can be found on the CBAS Welcome page.
Review, Update and Correct Scheduling Work regularly checking for omissions in building and room assignments by accessing department Course Term File, CTF and looking for potential double bookings of rooms by running the Potentially Double-Booked Room Report in AppAnalytics.
Courses tied to a lab and belonging to all other schedule types
Large General Classrooms are scheduled as the first step and by request of the Associate Deans to ensure large spaces are available to all departments.
Classroom Assignments are made using SZASECT and CBAS.
Summer
Courses of all schedule types
SZASECT and CBAS are used to schedule classrooms
Technology Assisted Scheduling, TAS, will not be used for either Summer Session