zone scheduling mary rhodes, associate registrar

Zone Scheduling

Mary Rhodes, Associate Registrar

Registrar’s Office

Ongoing access issues

Students can’t register for classes they need

Budget issues

Rising enrollments

Reduced classroom availability due to renovations

Outdated Official Class Meeting Time Policy

Class schedule congestion


Legacy Class Meeting Times

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3

1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5-credit classes that

meet for 50 minutes (MTWRF)

3-credit classes that meet for 80

minutes

4-credit classes that meet for 70

minutes

2 days a week (TR) 3 days a week (MWF)*

0800-0850 0800-0920 0800-0910

0900-0950 0930-1050 0930-1040

1000-1050 1100-1220 1100-1210

1100-1150 1230-1350 1230-1340

1200-1250 1400-1520 1400-1510

1300-1350 1530-1650 1530-1640

1400-1450 1700-1820 1700-1810

1500-1550 1830-1950 1820-1930


Scheduling Zones

Zone 1 (15-20%) 0800-0950

Zone 2 (45%) 1000-1350

Zone 3 (25%) 1400-1550

Zone 4 (15%) 1600-1750

Zone 5 optional 1800-2150


Zone Guidelines• Departments must distribute classes across all five days of the week (approximately 20 percent per day) and across the full class day (according to the percentages defined for each zone).


Zone Guidelines• Five zones. • Fifth zone is optional but part of the teaching day and should be utilized when possible. • All classes comply with the zones regardless of classroom assignment.


Zone Guidelines• Classes longer than two hours (longer than 110 minutes) per session must be scheduled in Zones 3, 4, or 5.


Zone Guidelines• Class meeting times may not cross zone boundaries

– Except classes that meet for longer than two hours may meet in Zones 3, 4, or 5 – Except 500- or 600-level graduate classes that meet longer than two hours per session if they use their own department-controlled classroom.


Zone Guidelines• Non-credit sections are scheduled after all credit-bearing sections are assigned rooms. • Use of classroom facilities for non-academic events must be approved and assigned by Schedule Desk.


Zone Guidelines• Classes that meet two days per week for 1 hour and 20 minutes must begin on the first hour of the zone, or at 1200 in Zone 2.


Zone Guidelines• Classes may not begin on the half hour, except –

– Zone 1, where 1 hour and 20 minute classes may begin at 0830, and – Zone 4, where classes may begin at 1730.


Scheduling Pattern Reports

• Subject Spread in Zone • Subject Spread across Week • Classes That Cross Zone Boundaries


Initiatives 2007


Scheduling Pattern ReportsCollege Subject Spread in

ZoneSubject Spread Across Week

Classes that Currently Cross Zone Boundaries

Agricultural Sciences 1 1 1

Business 2 2 2

Education 3 3 3

Engineering 16 16 16

Forestry 5 5 5

Graduate School 9 9 9

Health & Human Sciences 21 21 21

Honors College 18 18 18

Liberal Arts 10 10 10

Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences 13 13 13

Science 8 8 8

ROTC 11 11 11

ALS, International 19, 20 19, 20 19, 20


Subject Spread in Zone


Subject Spread across Week


Classes That Cross Zone Boundaries


TimelineDate Initiative Action

Oct. 10, 2006 Zones First of several information sessions about zone scheduling. See additional dates.

Oct. 11, 2006 Wait Listing, Priority Registration, Second Week Adds

Information session with Academic Advising Council about wait listing, priority registration, and second week add initiatives

Jan. 30, 2007 Zones Distribute SSR1000 report to departments to prepare class schedule for 2007-2008.

Feb. 5, 2007 Priority Registration Remind students and head advisors to submit transcripts of transfer credit to Admissions Office by April 13 to be included in credits counted for Fall 2007 priority registration. NOTE: This date may change to an earlier date. Please check this page for updates.

Feb. 23, 2007 Zones Departments submit Fall 2007 class schedules that apply class meeting zones

Mar. & Apr. 2007 Wait Listing & Priority Registration Information sessions to explain operation of wait listing and priority registration. See dates.

Apr. 9, 2007 Second Week Adds Begin electronic processing of second week class adds for Spring 2007.

Apr. 15, 2007 Wait Listing Begin wait listing for Summer Session 2007 registration.

May.18, 2007 Wait Listing, Priority Registration, Zones

Begin priority registration based on credits earned and in progress for Fall 2007 registration. Wait listing in effect. Class schedule is based on zones.

Jan. 2008 Schedule25 & Zones Use Schedule25 to assign classes to General Purpose classrooms for Spring 2008. Class schedule is based on zones.


ContactsQuestions about updating Fall 2007 class

schedule:Linda Miller at Schedule Desk, [email protected]

Questions about interpretation of Protocol or about possible exceptions:

Mary Rhodes, [email protected]

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