Reservations
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Screen Description
The Reservations screen provides an overview of and an easy access to both Course and Academic Area reservations.
Course Reservations are reservations for cross-listed courses, where it is necessary to indicate how many students should register through each of those cross-listed courses. Besides setting limits on courses within a cross list, course reservations also serve to reserve a particular class for a course within a cross list (for example, Rec 3 for C S 120H which is cross-listed with C S 120).
Academic Area (or Curriculum) Reservations serve each academic area to reserve certain amount of seats in a course for their students. These reservations are initially requested by curriculum deputies of those academic areas and then seats are reserved by the deputy who timetables the given instructional offering.
Note: The application is capable of handling more kinds of reservations (for example, reservations for majors/minors, individuals, ...). The above reservations are reservations currently in use for Purdue University.
Details
The Filter consists of two parts
- View reservations for
- Pick whether you want to see reservations per Instructional Offering, Course Offering, or Class
- Display
- Chose whether to display Course or Academic Area reservations
Meaningful combinations:
- Display Course Reservations for either Instructional Offering or Class
- Display Academic Area Reservations for Course Offering
(there are no course reservations for course offerings nor academic area reservations for instructional offerings or classes)
To apply the filter on the classes of a certain subject area, select the subject area in the drop down list next to Subject: and click Search. If you are interested in reservations for a particular course, fill in the Course Number before you click on the Search button (wildcards, e.g., 2* for all 200-level courses, may also be used).
The resulting tables always start with the course number of the controlling course of the instructional offering and its name. The number in parenthesis indicates the limit of that instructional offering. In most cases, an instructional offering is the same as the course offering. If it is not, then the courses that form the instructional offering are listed one by one with course limits in the parenthesis behind the course number.
Academic Area Reservations
Academic Area Reservations are applicable to course offerings. There is a table for each course offering (which has these reservations). It begins with the course number (or the instructional offering name, if there is just one course in that instructional offering) and the course limit in parenthesis. Its columns are as follows:
- Academic Area
- The academic area for which spaces should be reserved in the course
- Type
- Type of reservation
- Options:
- Nothing (blank) - no reservation guaranteed, the reservation is just informational
- Temporary - reservations guaranteed until a certain day
- Permanent - reservations guaranteed for the whole period when students register for courses
- Reserved
- Number of spaces the schedule deputy allows to be reserved for a given academic area
- Color coding:
- Black - Reserved = Requested
- Red - Reserved < Requested
- Green - Reserved > Requested
- Requested
- Number of spaces requested by curriculum deputies for a given academic area
- Projected
- Number of spaces that are expected to be needed by each academic area based on last like semester and projected enrollments
- Last Term
- Number of students from each academic area who took the course during the last like term
Clicking on the table takes you to the Academic Area Reservations screen.
Course Reservations
Course reservations are applicable to the instructional offerings and to classes. Each of them begins with the name of the instructional offering and the instructional offering limit in parenthesis after the name.
Course Reservations - Instructional Offerings
The course reservations on an instructional offering indicate the course limits for courses within that instructional offering. In the table for such reservations the following columns are displayed:
- Course
- A course in the cross list
- Reserved
- Number of spaces reserved for the students who register for this course (the course limit)
- Projected
- Projected demand for a course
- Last Term
- Last like semester enrollment in a course
Clicking on the table takes you to the Course Reservations screen.
Course Reservations - Classes
Course reservations on classes indicate that the students from a given course should attend only the classes explicitly identified by the reservation. For example, if there are six recitations for an instructional offering and there is a course reservation for C S 120H on Rec 3, it means that the students who register for C S 120H can only take Rec 3 (no other recitation). Each course reservation on a class first shows the class name and then the course number(s) of course(s) whose students should be in the class.
Operations
- Search
- Apply the filter on the selected subject area and course number
- Export PDF
- Export this page to a PDF document (read more about this in the description of the Instructional Offerings screen)
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