Class Scheduling Guidelines

The Office of the Registrar schedules classroom assignments in Universityuniversity facilities.facilities The Office of the Registrarand maintains a central record of all assignments withinin PeopleSoft, which is the only official locationsystem of record for the schedule of classes.  Academic scheduling is a collaborative effort between the Office of the Registrar and the Academicacademic Departments,departments, with the collectiveshared goal of planning a course schedule that best supports student achievement.  The following guidelines are recommended guidelines based on course scheduling best practices. 

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Course Distribution

• Course offerings for each department should be spread evenly throughout all day and time blocks.
• Standard courses must be scheduled during the approved class time blocks to maximize classroom usage and minimize scheduling conflicts.
• Courses with multiple sections should be distributed between morning and afternoon, and across the days of the week.
• Courses within your department should be evenly spread between 2-day and 3-day meeting patterns.
• Corequisites should be cooperatively scheduled by the involved departments to avoid time conflicts.

Special Room Requests

• Faculty with room requests due to medical needs must submit their request for a specific room during the initial scheduling.scheduling period.
• All requests for classrooms with specific characteristics must be made during the initial scheduling.scheduling period. Requests received after departments have returned their course offerings will be scheduled based upon availability.  
• Courses will be scheduled into classrooms based upon estimated enrollment needs. The Registrar's office will attempt to schedule courses within their respective buildings (engineering courses in CAMP, business courses in Snell, etc) whenever possible, however appropriate room size will be prioritized over location.

Enrollment Capacities

• Enrollment caps should be set appropriately for true expected enrollment at the time the course offering is requested. Reserved seating and the waitlist can be utilized to allow controlled enrollment during the enrollment period.
• Whenever possible, consider adding an additional section of a course, rather than increasing enrollment caps above 49 students.   

Meeting Patterns

• All lecture and discussion based courses should be scheduled into a standard meeting pattern time block. 
• Requests for non-standard meeting patterns must be submitted for approval through an academic department's Dean,dean, with final approval by theAmanda Provost.Pickering, AVP of Academic Affairs & Student Achievement. Final approval will be forwarded in writing, to the Office of the Registrar. Approved non-standard meeting pattern requests are subject to room availability. 

Standard Course Meeting Patterns

MWF	TTH	Evening Time Periods
8-8:50am	8:00-9:15am	MWF	7:00pm-7:50pm
9-9:50am	9:30-10:45am	MW	7:00pm-8:15pm
10-10:50am	11:00am-12:15pm	M	7:00pm-9:50pm
11-11:50am	12:30-1:45pm	W	7:00pm-9:50pm
12-12:50pm	2:00-3:15pm	F	7:00pm-9:50pm
1-1:50pm	3:30-4:45pm
2-2:50pm
3-3:50pm
4-4:50pm
5-5:50pm