Course Schedule Builder

Department Information

Department name

Academic term

Classrooms available per time slot (optional — room assignment happens elsewhere, but this flags slots you've overbooked)

Add Instructor

Instructor name

Type

Max load hours (FT contract load is 15; adjunct caps are set locally)

Courses (comma-separated)

Reassigned / release load hours (chair, coordinator — counts toward load)

Teaching formats

16-Week 14-Week (Saturday) Blended 8-Week 7-Week Dual Credit Online (no meeting time) Evening block (once a week, 6:30–9:15)

Days and times an instructor cannot teach are set with Edit in the list below.

Teaches labs (science and other lecture + lab courses)

Course Load Hours

Load hours per section, from the catalog's weekly lecture and lab hours (one lecture hour = one lab hour = one contact hour, Faculty Handbook p. 53). A 3-hour lecture course is 3; BIOL-1406 is 3 lecture + 3 lab; BIOL-2401 is 3 + 2. Courses appear here as you add instructors.

Current Instructors

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How placement works

Drag a section to the grid, or click it once and then click a time slot.
No scrolling: “Add section” carries its own Days and Time dropdowns, so a new section can go straight onto the grid. For sections already in the pool, click → on the card (or select it and press P). Slots already taken by that instructor are disabled.
With “Keep a spare after placing” on, placing a section leaves an identical unplaced one in that instructor's box, so repeat sections need no extra clicks. The spare stops appearing once the instructor reaches their max load.
Monday–Thursday sections auto-pair on M/W or T/Th. Blended, Friday, and Saturday sections meet once.
Labs are separate hatched LAB cards. A 2-slot lab fills two adjacent Monday–Thursday rows (the second shows “cont.”); Friday and Saturday blocks are already long enough, so a lab there takes one row. The 8:00–9:20 PM row exists so evening labs can run 6:30–9:20.
A lecture that feeds several lab sections (one 48-seat lecture, two 24-seat labs) is one lecture card marked “×2 labs”; place two lab cards for it. The needs panel flags courses short on labs.
Load is in load hours (handbook p. 53: one lecture hour = one lab hour = one contact hour). Set each course's lecture and lab hours in Setup. Full-time contract load is 15; the tool warns at the 6-hour overload cap and the 24-hour maximum. Reassigned/release hours set in Setup count toward load.
Online and off-site dual credit sections have no time slot. They go in the two buckets under the grid, count toward load and the section totals, and never conflict with anything. Pick “Online” under Meets when adding a section (the instructor needs the Online format in Setup).
Evening block lectures (once a week, 6:30–9:15) take both evening rows, like a 2-slot lab, so a second section can't be double-booked behind them. Pick “Evening block” under Meets.
An instructor's unavailable slots (set with Edit in Setup) show as taken in the dropdowns and ask before you override them.
Early and late half-term sections (8-week, 7-week) may share a slot; anything else double-booking an instructor is blocked.
✎ on a card (or the List view) sets a section number, cap and last term's enrollment. The Seats & Demand card uses them to show fill rates and flag slots that ran under half full. A “classrooms per slot” number in Setup flags any slot with more sections than rooms.
Import CSV accepts this builder's own export or a registrar / Colleague section export — you'll map the columns once, and the sections land on the grid. Compare to draft opens an earlier project file and lists what was added, removed, moved, and whose load changed. Print load sheets gives one page per instructor for sign-off.
Click the × on a placed section to return it to the pool. Everything autosaves in this browser.

Sections scheduled

Awaiting placement

Faculty capacity used

Monday – Thursday

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday

▶ Friday & Saturday

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Friday Evening

Saturday

Online no meeting time · counts toward load

Off-site dual credit taught at the high school

Available Sections

Keep a spare after placing Subject:

“Add section” now builds and sends in one step: pick the course, the format, then the days and time. Leave the days on “Leave in pool” to just stage the section. Existing sections go to the grid by drag, by click-then-click, or with the → button on the card.