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SIS 2000+ Master Schedule Editor

Sec.1, Introduction

A Master Schedule must be entered into the SIS 2000+ system before students can be be scheduled by the Student Loader program or the Student Schedule Editor program. The Master Schedule Editor program provides a grid type interface of faculty vs. period and period vs. cycle per single faculty member for creating the Master Schedule. Using this program, a pre-built schedule can be manually entered into the SIS 2000+ database by placing classes (course sections) into their assigned periods based on students' course requests. Unlike previous versions of SIS 2000+, this program allows the scheduling of cycle days.

Screen layout

There are three information screens in the Master Schedule Editor. They can be accessed by clicking on their titled tabs:

• 'Show by Faculty' screen

All scheduling is done in this view (Fig. 1), one faculty member at a time. The name of the faculty member being scheduled is indicated in the upper left corner of the screen. The term to view can be selected in the Term field. The Track is selected using the List command button or the VCR buttons at the bottom of the screen.

The rows in the grid are periods of the day. The columns are cycle days of the week (as defined in the Track Editor program) such as, "CD 1", "CD 2" or "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", etc. If there are no cycles in the target school, only one column will be displayed. On the far right is a list of all Available Courses to be taught for the selected term. Courses that have been scheduled are identified by their course ID numbers and descriptions in the cells of the grid, which correspond to a time slot, i.e., the intersection of a period and a cycle day. For easier viewing, the column widths may be adjusted using the mouse.


Fig. 1
 

• 'Show by Cycle' screen

This view displays the results of the scheduling done in the 'Show by Faculty' screen, but in a different format. The table shown here is composed of an alphabetical list of faculty members displayed on the left, with the periods appearing as columns to the right. For easier viewing, the column widths may be adjusted using the mouse. All course sections (classes) scheduled will be displayed for each teacher, per period. Each cycle day can be viewed as a separate table by selecting the desired day from Cycle field in the upper right hand corner of the screen.


Fig. 2
 

• 'Show by Course' screen

This view also displays the results of the scheduling done in the 'Show by Faculty' screen, one course at a time. Select a Track and Term to view, then select a Course to view. All scheduled sections of the course will be displayed in the cells of the grid which represent a period and cycle day. For easier viewing, the column widths may be adjusted using the mouse.


Fig. 3