Academic Scheduling provides department chairs with schedule building materials and timetables. Department chairs create schedules in CourseDog. CourseDog training materials and helpful hints are available.
After the schedule building period is over and courses are viewable on Wingspan, departmental schedulers may change course capacities and instructor of record, and may create individually-directed courses (honors contract, independent study/research, masters' thesis, co-op, internship, etc.). The department chair or departmental scheduler should contact the Assistant Registrar for Academic Scheduling to cancel a class, assign or change registration controls, and change meeting times, days, or classrooms. Academic Scheduling ensures that courses are offered at standard times, in appropriate classrooms, for the required length of time, and that department schedules adhere to current and future scheduling guidelines.
In a self-service registration environment, course starting and ending dates greatly impact student deadlines regarding fee payment, refunds, add/drop, S/U, and withdrawals. Whenever possible, courses should meet within established sessions (full term, half term, or third term for fall and spring; A,B,C, or D session for summer), and course dates should not be changed once the schedule is submitted to the Assistant Registrar for Academic Scheduling . When department chairs receive schedule building materials (in November for the subsequent fall and in May for the subsequent spring), they will be provided with the established dates for full, half, and third part-of-term courses. If a course needs to be scheduled in a part-of-term other than those already established, approval to create a special part of term will be required from the Registrar, in consultation with the Academic Dean as needed, before the course is scheduled. The deans have agreed that, for summer school, they will try to minimize the number of special terms needed by grouping special courses together into the same nonstandard parts of term.
