MSB Course Setup Page

After running the MSB Course Setup Utility to build course setup records, use this page to specify the teacher, room, and meeting time requirements for course-sections. The Build Master Schedule Page uses this information, along with student requests, to determine the best placement for the course.

View MSB Course Setup Records

Select Scheduling > Courses > Master Schedule Builder > MSB Course Setup.
If needed, enter criteria on the search page for a Simple or Advanced Search, and then click Load.
On the Search Results panel, click the Course link.

Change MSB Course Setup Records

Select Scheduling > Courses > Master Schedule Builder > MSB Course Setup.
If needed, enter criteria on the search page for a Simple or Advanced Search, and then click Load.
On the Search Results panel, click the Course link.
Change values as needed.
Click Save.

Fields

Definition

Field	Description
Building	Code identifying the building associated with the course.
Course	Code identifying the course.
Number of Requests	The number of requests that have been entered for this course.
Average Class Size	The number of requests divided by the number of sections.
Block Type	Determines how the Master Schedule Builder processes the course setup record. C - Blockette Course - indicates that this is a regular course-section that is assigned to at least one block course. The Build creates course-sections based on the setup information. When a course is being used as a blockette, an additional field, Part of Block Course, displays, providing a link to the block course. N - Regular Course - indicates the Build creates course-sections based on the setup information. B - Block Course - indicates the Build creates course-sections for the courses associated with the Block. It creates the individual blockette course-sections only. You will not enter information in the Section(s) area of the page.
Part of Block Course	If this course is a blockette, indicates the course with which it is associated. Click the link to display the block course record. For more information, refer to Overview of Block Courses.
Course Length	The length of the course. Your entry here determines your options in the Pattern field in the Section(s) area. Select: S - Specific Number of Semesters - to indicate this is for a specific number of semesters. In the Pattern field, you indicate how many semesters. Y - Year Long Course - to indicate this is a year-long course. (Pattern does not apply.) M - Individual Marking Period(s) - to indicate individual marking periods in length. In the Pattern field, you indicate which marking periods or other type of duration.
Duration Type	The marking periods or other durations that a course-section can meet.
Span	The number of marking periods or other durations this course meets. Only available if the Course Length is set to M.
Same Teacher	For a block course, check if course blockettes with the same section number should have the same teacher.
Same Period	For a block course, check if course blockettes with the same section number should meet in the same period. This should only be used if the course-sections meeting times will not overlap, for example, if one course meets in marking periods 1 and 2 and the other meets in marking periods 3 and 4.
All Sections Same	Checked if all sections of the course will have the same duration type and resource (staff and room) information.
Number of Sections	The number of sections that the Master Schedule Builder will create. The Course Setup Utility sets this number by dividing the number of student requests by the number in the Maximum in Class field.

Sections

Field	Description
Section	The number of the section. If All Sections Same is unchecked, the system creates separate sections, based on the Number of Sections field.
Meeting Code	The meeting code to use for this section. The Build Master Schedule option will attempt to schedule the course into one of the meeting patterns included in the meeting code.
Staff Type	Indicates whether a specific teacher or any teacher in a group can be assigned to the course. Select: Staff - to enter one teacher in the Staff Resource field. Group - to enter a predefined group of teachers in the Staff Resource field. The Build Master Schedule option will then try to assign any of the teachers in the group to the course-section.
Staff Resource	The teacher or group of teachers who can be assigned to the course-section. If you selected Staff in the Staff Type field, enter a teacher. If you selected Group in the Staff Type field, enter a group. All teachers in the group must have the appropriate teacher qualifications in order to be assigned to the course-section. If you have the appropriate security resource, you can override the qualification restriction.
Room Type	Indicates whether a specific room or any room in a group can be assigned to the course. Select: Room - to enter one room in the Room Resource field. Group - to enter a predefined group of rooms in the Room Resource field. The Build Master Schedule option will then try to assign any of the rooms in the group to the course-section.
Room Resource	The room or group of rooms that can be assigned to the course-section. If you selected Room in the Room Type field, enter a room. If you selected Group in the Room Type field, enter a group.
Maximum Seats	The maximum number of students who can be assigned to this class.
Pattern	Indicates the marking periods or other intervals that apply to this course-section. The No symbol displays on the marking periods or other intervals that do not apply to this course-section, for example, . To restore an interval, click the No symbol. This option is available only if you selected Specific Number of Semesters or Individual Marking Period(s) in the Course Length field. Patterns do not apply if you selected Year Long Course. If you selected Specific Number of Semesters, the Pattern field displays the number of terms entered in the Durations table. If you selected Individual Marking Period(s), the Pattern field displays the number of marking periods, or other selected duration, that this course meets. Example: A course meets for two marking periods. Course Length is set to Individual Marking Period(s) and Duration Type is set to Q - Quarter. For each course-section, click the two quarters that do not apply to the course-section so that the No symbol displays on those quarters: The Pattern cannot be changed after students are scheduled into the course-section unless you have security to override the Master Schedule.

Teacher Qualification

This section defines the qualifications required for a teacher to be considered highly qualified for teaching the course-section.

Field

Description

Qualifications

Select the types of qualifications a staff member must have to teach the course section. The selections available are set up in Registration's Staff Qualifications table.

Select codes from the field's drop-down list or click the Select All (asterisk) icon to select all codes, then remove any that do not apply.

You will receive a warning if the teacher assigned to the course-section does not meet all of the qualifications selected.

Note

In eSchoolPlus and in the Whiteboard application, if there are teacher qualifications specified for a course, the teacher must have these qualifications in order for you to assign the teacher to the course-section. An alert displays if the teacher does not have the appropriate qualifications. Whether you can save the record with such warnings depends on your security resources.

Combinations

Field	Description
Combination Course	Courses entered here must be taught at the same time, period, and teacher as this course.

Block Information

Displays the Blockette Courses within this Block Course. To delete a blockette, click the Delete icon in the row for the course you want to delete. For more information, refer to Overview of Block Courses.

Field	Description
Blockette Course	If this MSB Course Setup record is for a Block Course, the course code and description of each blockette.
Details	You can click the View Detail icon to go to the MSB Course Setup page for that blockette.
Same Section	Checked if all sections of the course will have the same duration type and resource (staff and room) information.
Mandatory	Checked if the blockette is mandatory. When you define the blockettes for the block in the Master Schedule, you can select options to specify how strictly students are grouped within blockettes. For example, for each blockette, you can select whether the blockette is mandatory. If all blockettes in the block are mandatory, the student will be scheduled into a blockette course-section only if the student can be scheduled into all of the blockettes. For more information, refer to "Options for Defining Blockettes" in Overview of Block Courses.

We recommend defining blockettes with at least one mandatory blockette. When the scheduler tries to schedule a block with no mandatory blockettes, it attempts to schedule all possible combinations of blockette sections, slowing down the scheduler's performance.