Edit Course Offering
Screen Description
Most of the information that you enter in the Edit Course Offering screen has to match the course catalog.
Details
Course Number
Course number editable by administrators
Title
Long title for the course
Type
If there are course types defined, a course type can be selected from a drop down. See Course Types page for more details.
Schedule of Classes Note
The note that will be displayed in the schedule book as a note for the whole course
Consent
The type of consent that is required
Options: None (leave the "Select..." there), Consent of Department, Consent of Instructor. See Consent Types page for more details.
Credit
Options: Arrange Hours, Fixed Unit, Variable Min/Max, Variable Range
In most cases the Credit is Fixed Unit
Credit Type
Variable credit type: E-Equivalent; C-Continuing Education Units; M-Masters; P-PhD Thesis
Credit Unit Type
Indicates time frame for credit hour awarded
Units and Max Units
Amount of Credit awarded for the Course
For fixed credit courses, the single credit associated with the course will be listed in the Units field
For variable credit courses, e.g., credit 1-5, the first value in the range will be listed in the Units field and the ending value for the range will be listed in the Max Units field
Fractional Increments Allowed
Any course that has variable credit can be taken for fractional credit, e.g., if credit range is 1-5, an individual could make arrangements to earn 2.5 credits
Editable only by administrators
See Course Credit for more details.
Take Course Demands from Offering
For a new course (a course that has not been offered last-like semester), you can optionally select an existing course offering from the drop down menu to indicate the new course is expected to enroll the same or similar set of students as the selected course. This information is used in the timetabling to reflect potential student conflicts.
Useful when you are renumbering a course - the new number is ME 443, but you know that this course will be taken by the same students as ME 495T in the past - in that case, you will select ME 495T in the drop down.
For majority of your courses, you will not be using this drop down
By Reservation Only
A checkbox indicating whether it is possible to enter the course without meeting its reservation criteria (if checked, only students meeting reservations will be allowed to enroll into the offering)
Coordinators
A list of instructors (from the department to which the course belongs) who will be able to provide the consent of instructor required for the course
Delete
Click to delete the coordinator on the same line
Add Coordinator
Click to add another line with the drop down list of possible coordinators
Deadlines
These deadlines are used to control enrollment during online student scheduling (both via scheduling assistant and wait-list). The defaults are set on the academic session (Edit Academic Session), but can be overridden on each instructional offering.
Deadlines are given in the number of weeks, relative to the class start (weeks start on the day of the session begin date).
Operations
Update (Alt+U)
Save changes and go back to the Instructional Offering Detail screen.
Back (Alt+B)
Go back to the Instructional Offering Detail screen without saving any changes.
Notes
Course number format is controlled by the regular expression in the tmtbl.courseNumber.pattern application property. If the validation fails, the message from tmtbl.courseNumber.patternInfo property is displayed. It is possible to allow for non unique course numbers by setting the application property tmtbl.courseNumber.unique to false. When application property tmtbl.courseNumber.upperCase is set to true, course numbers are automatically upper cased. These properties can be changed using the Application Configuration page, the default settings is as follows:
tmtbl.courseNumber.pattern=^[0-9][0-9][0-9]([A-Za-z]){0,1}$
tmtbl.courseNumber.patternInfo=Course Number must have 3 numbers followed by an optional letter (e.g. 214, 342X)
tmtbl.courseNumber.unique=false
tmtbl.courseNumber.upperCase=true