Building Course Catalog Page

Building

Building where the course is offered.

Course

Code identifying the course in your Building Course Catalog. Character/10

If your building uses course equivalency options to report scheduling or transcript information using state course codes, do not use state codes as course codes in the course catalog. If a local course code is the same as a state course code, course equivalency processing will not work properly. State course codes are defined in the State Courses option (Scheduling > Courses > District Courses > State Courses).

Name

Title or short description of the course. Displays in most pages and reports. Character/30

Description

Full description of the course that can be printed in district-defined reports. Character/255

Course Availability

Two checkboxes, both of which may be selected:

Regular Year

Checked if the course is offered in the regular school year.

Summer School

Checked if the course is offered in summer school.

Fee

Amount to charge a student if the course requires a fee. The fee prints on the Student Request Verification report.

The Student Fees package does not process this fee. Student Fees uses Fee Groups to charge fees for courses.

Course Credit Basis

Select the type of enrollment associated with the credit hours for the course.

Active

Checked if the course status is Active. Unchecked if the course is Inactive and should not be available for either requests or the Master Schedule.

Study Hall

Checked if the course is a study hall that will be scheduled by the Schedule Study Halls option. This option fills in students' free time periods with study halls.

Students cannot request this type of study hall. If you want students to request study halls or you want to manually schedule study halls, do not select the checkbox, and set up the study hall as a regular course.

NCES Code

Select the course's NCES code.

Department

Department offering the course.

VoTec (Vocational-Technical)

Checked if this is a vocational-technical or career-technology course.

Block Type

Determines whether the catalog record is for a course or block.

Select:

B - Block Course - to indicate that the course is a block course and can be used to schedule students for multiple courses based on a single course request. You should set up the regular courses that will be used as blockettes first, then assign the blockettes to a block.
N - Regular Course - to indicate the course is not a block and can be scheduled by itself or as a blockette.

When a course is being used as a blockette, the system assigns the value C - Blockette Course. An additional field, Part of Block Course, displays, providing a link to the block course.

For more information on how block courses can be used, refer to Overview of Block Courses.

Take Attendance

Checked if attendance is taken for this course. In the Master Schedule, you can specify whether attendance is taken for each of course-section session of the course.

Include in Passing Time Calculation

Checked if the Day Totals Calculation should include the minutes for this course and the passing time to and from the course in the minutes for the day. This setting only affects the Day Totals Calculation for attendance views that are defined to calculate totals as minutes and to include passing time. For more information, refer to Passing Time Calculation for Day Totals.

This field is accessible only if you check the Take Attendance box.

Include in PerformancePLUS Integration

Indicates how this course is integrated with the PerformancePLUS applications CurriculumCONNECTOR and PerformanceTRACKER, via the PSI integration. Not all courses are appropriate to transfer to PerformancePLUS. For example, study hall, lunch, and some electives may not have a formal curriculum.

Select:

B - Both - to copy the course to CurriculumCONNECTOR and PerformanceTRACKER.
C - CurriculumConnector - to copy the course to CurriculumCONNECTOR, but not PerformanceTracker.
N - Neither - to not copy the course to CurriculumCONNECTOR or PerformanceTRACKER.
P - PerformanceTracker - to copy the course to PerformanceTRACKER, but not CurriculumCONNECTOR.

If you selected to copy the course to a PerformancePLUS application, you must specify the curriculum's minimum and maximum grade levels in the next two fields: Include for Minimum Grade and Include for Maximum Grade.

Include for Minimum Grade

This field depends on your selection in the Include in PerformancePLUS Integration field:

• If the integration field is set to is set to B (Both) or C (CurriculumConnector), you must select the minimum grade level for the course's curriculum for CurriculumCONNECTOR.
• If the integration field is set to copy the course to a PerformancePLUS application (B, C, or P), you must select the minimum grade level for the course's curriculum. The curriculum grade level may differ from the grade levels of students enrolled in the curriculum.

If you enter a grade level in this field, you must enter a grade level in the Include for Maximum Grade field, as well. The minimum and maximum grade level may be the same.

Include for Maximum Grade

This field depends on your selection in the Include in PerformancePLUS Integration field:

• If the integration field is set to is set to B (Both) or C (CurriculumConnector), you must select the maximum grade level for the course's curriculum for CurriculumCONNECTOR.
• If the integration field is set to copy the course to a PerformancePLUS application (B, C, or P), you must select the maximum grade level for the course's curriculum. The curriculum grade level may differ from the grade levels of students enrolled in the curriculum.

If you enter a grade level in this field, you must enter a grade level in the Include for Minimum Grade field, as well. The minimum and maximum grade level may be the same.

House/Team

House/team associated with the course. If a team is assigned, only students with the same team designation can request or be scheduled in the course.

Users with the appropriate security resource can override the house/team restriction.

For a building that uses multiple bell schedules, no user can override the house/team restrictions.

Conflict Matrix

Indicates if the Conflict Matrix report should show how many students requested the course, and if so, indicates how the report should process the course.

Select:

Y - All Courses - to list the course when the Conflict Matrix report is run for all courses.
N - Do not include - to exclude the course from the report.
D - Doubletons - to list the course when the Conflict Matrix report is run for all courses or for doubletons. Select doubleton if you are planning on scheduling only a few course-sections of the course.
S - Singletons - to list the course when the Conflict Matrix report is run for all courses or for singletons. Select singleton if you are planning on scheduling only one course-section of the course.

This field affects the data to print on the Conflict Matrix report; it does not impact the course-sections you can define in the Master Schedule. For example, you can define multiple course-sections of a course that is defined as a singleton.

Request from HAC

Checked if guardians and students can request the course from the Course Requests or Student Career Planner page in Home Access Center (HAC), depending on whether your district allows request entry in HAC. Unchecked if this course should not be listed for course requests in HAC.

Grade Restriction

Simple Tally

Checked if the course should be included in the Simple Tally report.

Alternate Course

Select the course to substitute if the Schedule Students option is unable to schedule this course for a student. Leave the field blank if there is no course alternate.

The alternate course is processed if the user selects the Schedule Course Alternates checkbox when scheduling students.

Gender Restriction

Gender of students who can request the course.

Select:

B - Both
F - Female Only
M - Male Only

Weighted value of the course. The Schedule Students option uses the weight of a course to balance a schedule if you choose to balance major and minor courses within semesters or marking periods.

You can use almost any scale, though 0-100 is typical. For example, assign 100 for a major course and 50 for an elective. If balancing does not apply, enter 0.

Next Recommended Course

Next course that you recommend students take after completing this course. This value prints on the Next Recommended Course Signoff report, which is a worksheet that includes the courses a student is taking and the next course the student should take in the progression.

This information is not used for course prerequisite processing and does not affect how requests are loaded.

Classified Students

Maximum weight of classified students who can be scheduled for a course-section, expressed as either a percentage or number. If a default displays, you may change the value as needed. Decimal/5,2

Enter a value in the numeric field, then select:

Number - to set the default scheduling weight as a decimal number, for example, 8.00 as the total allowed for a class.
Percent - to set the default scheduling weight as a percentage, for example, 8.00 percent of a class.

Classification weights are used to limit the scheduling of classified students into course-sections. The weights are assigned to student classifications in Registration's Classifications validation table, for example, 1.0 for 504 Plan students and 2.0 for Special Education students. In scheduling a course-section, the system compares the total weight against the maximum in the Master Schedule record. Once the maximum is reached, no additional students with classification weights can be scheduled into the course-section.

Scheduling weight maximums do not apply to study halls. If the course's Study Hall checkbox is selected, you cannot access the Classified Students field.

Priority

The priority for the course. For example, you can set a priority for a course that is required for graduation. A lower number indicates a higher priority. You can use almost any scale, though 0-100 is typical. If you do not prioritize in scheduling, enter 0.

The scheduler can use course priority in two ways:

• You can sort student requests by priority so that courses with a lower priority number are scheduled first.
• You also can use this value in selective scheduling. For example, if you want to schedule higher priority courses first, you can specify a value for the Course Priorities to Ignore field when you run the scheduler to not schedule courses with a specified priority value.

Marks Are

Indicates how Mark Reporting should process the course.

Select:

R - For report cards only - to create mark reporting records, but not store the records for transcripts.
N - Not issued - to not create mark reporting records.
T - Retained for transcripts - to create mark reporting records and print the records for transcripts for the building types entered in the Transcript Building Type field.

To preserve an archive of the course's grades, set the Marks Are value to T - Retained in transcripts. This enables users to change the environment to view students' marks from previous years. With the R - Report cards only setting, report card records are deleted when the Mark Reporting Year End Rollover is run.

Transcript Building Types

Select the building types to use for including this course on transcripts. When a transcript is printed, the system selects the student's courses based on the building type specified in the Transcript View Setup. If you leave the field blank, the course is printed on transcripts regardless of building type.

For example, if a middle school wants to print transcripts, but the courses should not be included on high school transcripts, select a middle school building type. If a course should print on both middle school and high school transcripts, select these building types.

Credit

Number of credits awarded for successfully completing the course.

If the course is a block course, the field displays the sum of all credits from the block's blockette courses. For example, if a block includes three blockettes, each of which is worth 1.0 credit, the Credit field displays 3.0. With a block course, you cannot change this value, other than by adding blockette courses or by changing the credit values in the block's individual blockettes.

Course Level

Indicates the level table that applies to the course in general. For example, if the course is an academic course that uses a non-weighted grading scale, select the non-weighted level table.

This level is used for the Course Credit Calculation and mark reporting reports that display information from the level table for the course. It is also used by the Teacher Access Center Load from Gradebook if a Gradebook Scale is not assigned to a student.

Mark Types

Type

Select the honor roll types to use as defaults when a course-section is added to the Master Schedule.

For information on how Mark Reporting setups are validated at the Building Course Catalog level, refer to Using the District Course Catalog.

Level

Select the Level table to use for honor roll calculations for honor roll type selected.

To delete a record, select the row's Delete checkbox, then click Save.

Type

Select the GPA types to use as defaults, when a course-section is added to the Master Schedule. For each GPA type selected, identify the Level table to use for GPA calculations.

Level

Select the Level table to use for GPA calculations for the specified GPA type.

To delete a record, select the row's Delete checkbox, then click Save.

Credit Rule

If multiple subject areas are assigned to the course, indicates how credit should be applied to the subject areas for graduation requirements.

Select:

E - Evenly divide credit among all subject areas - to divide the credit for the course across all listed subject areas; for example, if the credit for Physics should be split between a lab science requirement and a lecture science requirement.
O - Fill subject area credit in order - to apply the credit for the course to the first subject area listed that still needs credits filled, then apply any remaining credit to the next subject area that needs to be filled. For example, if a student takes a Modern Fiction course that is 1.0 credit, which can be used to fulfill an English subject area requirement or Elective requirement, and the student needs.5 credits for English, the first.5 credits will be applied to fill the English requirement and the remaining credit will then be applied to fill the subject area Elective requirement.
F - Full credit goes to all subject areas - to apply the full credit for the course to all listed subject areas; for example, if the credit for Physics should be applied to both the lab science requirement and a lecture science requirement.

When you enter an Order number, a new row is added at the bottom for selecting another Subject Area.

Order

The priority of this subject area when Divide Credit is set to O - Fill Subject Area Credits in Order. Order 1 will be filled first, order 2 next, and so forth.

Subject Area

Indicates the subject areas that the course meets. For example, if a course can fulfill the graduation requirements for the English or Elective subject area, you would select the two subject areas.

Tags

Course tags applied to the graduation requirement subject area for this course. Course tags are used as a way to group courses within a subject area so that rules can be established for the types of courses a student needs to take to meet credit requirements.

Enter course tags as a comma-delimited list, such as A1,B1,C1. This field shows all course tags that are already assigned to the course through Graduation Requirement Setup's Tag Courses page.

To delete a record, select the row's Delete checkbox, then click Save.

Same Teacher

Indicates whether blockettes that are not assigned to a section should be taught by the same teacher. You must have at least two blockettes that have the Same Section checkbox selected in order to select a value other than N - No Linking. Also, at least one blockette must have Mandatory or Same Section selected because teacher linking cannot be used for a proxy block.

Select:

P - Linking Preferred - to indicate that the scheduler should try to schedule students into course-sections taught by the same teacher for the blockettes that do not have Same Section checked. If the scheduler cannot schedule the student into course-sections with the same teacher, the scheduler may still schedule the student into the course-sections if the course-sections fit in the student's schedule.
R - Linking Required - to indicate that the scheduler should only schedule students into the course-sections if the sections are taught by the same teacher for the blockettes that do not have Same Section checked. Students will not be scheduled for this block unless they can be scheduled with the same teacher for these blockettes.
N - No Linking - to indicate that the Schedule Students option should schedule students into course-sections taught by any teacher for the blockettes that do not have the Same Section checkbox selected.

Course

Code identifying the course blockette.

The field's selections include all courses with the same building type as the block course. For example, if the block's building type is middle school, the field's drop-down list only includes courses with this building type. When a block has multiple building types, such as both high school and middle school, you only can select from courses assigned the same multiple types.

Same Section

Checked if the section number for the blockette should default to the same section number as the block course-section when you add the block to the Master Schedule. This option is useful if you want to use the block course to group students so the same students are in all of the blockette course-sections associated with this block.

If you want to use the block course as a proxy block for which students can be scheduled into any section of the blockettes, do not select the Same Section checkbox.

Mandatory

Checked if this blockette should default as mandatory when you add the block course to the Master Schedule. The student will only be scheduled for the blockettes in a block if the student can be scheduled for all mandatory blockettes.

If you want to use the block course as a proxy block for which students can be scheduled into any of the possible blockettes, do not select the Mandatory checkbox.

To delete a record, select the row's Delete checkbox, then click Save.

State Course

Select the state course that corresponds to the District Course Catalog course. State courses are defined in the Scheduling > Courses > District Courses > State Courses option.)

Number of Parts

Select the number of parts required for state course equivalency.

For example, if the state course is Algebra I and your district offers two separate courses to meet the state's course requirements (Algebra IA and Algebra IB), indicate there are 2 parts to the state course.

Part Number

Select which part of the state course the current course fulfills. Using the example given with the Number of Parts field, Algebra IA would be part 1 and Algebra IB, part 2.

Building

Identifies the building associated with the course group.

Course Group

Group to which the course belongs.

To delete a record, select the row's Delete checkbox, then click Save.

Qualifications