SIS 2000+ Master Schedule Editor, Sec. 4, Scheduling Segments

SIS 2000+ Master Schedule Editor

Last Update: 09/02/2000 jmm

Sec. 4, Scheduling Segments

A course section will likely have more than one meeting time per week. A "segment" is meeting time of a course section, even in cases where there is only one meeting time per week. A course section may meet several times a week in the same period but on a different cycle day or may meet several times in a different period, same cycle day. The former case would be, for example, when a teacher teaches the same class to the same group of students during all cycle days in the week; each meeting time will be considered a segment of the course section. The latter case would be, for example, if one teacher's section needed to be divided between two periods in the same day; each period's meeting time would be considered a segment of the same course section. Scheduled segments of the same course section will all have the same course ID number and section number.

Important:
Segments can only be created using the drag-and-drop method, including the shortcut procedure outlined in Sec. 5. Adding segments via the key entry method is not possible.

4.1 Drag-and-Drop
After scheduling the first cycle day of any course section, drag-and-drop the same course onto the cell for another cycle day/same period or onto another period/same cycle day (Fig. 18). This action causes the program to prepare for the creation of a segment.

Fig. 18

4.2 Confirm adding of segment
The 'Add New' dialog (Fig. 19) will appear whenever a course is dropped on a Master Schedule where a scheduled section already exists for that course in the selected track. Confirm the intention of adding a segment (instead of adding a new section) by selecting the root course section form the Existing Sections list on the left. Then click the Add Segment command button. A segment will be added to the existing course section that was selected as the root.

Fig. 19

Note:
The user may opt to create a new section at this time, instead of a segment, by clicking on the Add New Section command button. In this case, see Step. 3.1, "Schedule Classes/DRAG-AND-DROP SCHEDULING:"

4.2 View segment
The preceding actions will close the 'Add New' screen and the view will revert to the main schedule grid (Fig. 20). The new segment will be displayed in the target cell. Notice that the hyphenated section numbers are identical to the root course section selected in the 'Add New' dialog. In effect, another meeting time for the course section has been scheduled.

Fig. 20

4.3 Repeat
Repeat Steps 4.1 - 4.2 to create more segments, one cell at a time, or use the shortcut procedure in Step 5 to schedule all cycle days of the target period simultaneously.

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