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Assign default terms and meeting patterns to classes
[Applies to secondary [>>] school scheduling.]
The administrator can assign to each class a default scheduling group and term set, with attendant meeting patterns. When automatically creating classes for a course, PowerSchool SMS assigns them to this default scheduling group and distributes them between the terms of the term set. A class with an default scheduling group/term set becomes available for scheduling teachers and students.
The administrator can also set up a term override for a course. This involves specifying other scheduling group/term set combinations that are available to the course on student request. For example, if you want to allow students to request one semester of a full year course, you can assign the full year term as the default offering and semesters as another allowed offering. When you record student course requests [>>], you can specify the full year term for students who want to take the full course, or a single semester for students you want to take part of the course, for example, if they need to switch periods. Caution: Only assign classes to the default offering. Assigning classes to multiple offerings may create grading errors.
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In the Admin menu, click Scheduling. The Scheduling page appears. |
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Click Course Offerings & Meeting Patterns. The Course List page appears. |
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Under Number, click the number of the course. The Course Offerings page appears [Figure 149]. |
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If the Course Offerings page does not appear, in the control bar click Course Offerings. |
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The contents of the Course Offerings page depends on the planning schedule in use [>>]. |
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Under Default Offering, select a Scheduling Group/Term Set combination. |
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To view a scheduling group's selected meeting patterns, click in that group's row. |
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(With the default offering row selected) Under Meeting Patterns, make meeting patterns available by moving them to the Selected patterns list. |
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[Optional] Under Allowed Offering, select other Scheduling Group/Term Set combinations to be available for students on request. |
Figure 149: Course Offerings page
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Meeting patterns: To view a scheduling group's selected meeting patterns, click in that group's row. |
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Selected patterns: The course can only be scheduled into the meeting pattern(s) that are included in this list. |
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Copy: In the Planning Calendar, click to create a new course starting from an instance of the current course. |
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You can do this if your role is School Administrator.[SA]