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Request Based Scheduling at a Glance

1. Enter student course requests via Load Student Course Requests, Course Request Fast Loader, or Student Request Fast Loader.
2. Run the Audit Request Validity report to check that students have a full set of course requests.
3. Run the Audit Master Schedule Seats vs Requests to determine how many sections of each course you will offer.
4. Develop the Master Schedule (on paper, Excel file, Google Sheets, or other model) grade by grade beginning with Core singletons, then Core doubletons, then other core courses. Finally layer in electives.
   • Think about other items you want reflected in the Master Schedule such as common planning time for teachers, Athletic PE, or any other specific conditions.
   • Check the number of sections available for students at each period. Compare against the MFP/Student Count/Ethnic/Gender/Lunch report of students coming next year.
     • Look for enough places for the students to go to at each period. Example: If there are 300 9th grade students, check to see if there are roughly 12 classes for the 9th graders to go at each period.
5. Update the Master Schedule in the next year Master Schedule Editor.
6. Optional: Preload manually scheduled classes to students using Student Schedule Maintenance or Load Student Schedules.
7. Run the Automatic Scheduler as described in the section below. Some prefer to run it grade by grade, but it can be run for the entire school.
   • A run success percentage and count of abandons will be displayed.
   • Click the count of abandons to see student requests that could not be scheduled.
   • If the run was successful, commit your run by clicking on the Run Number (commits students to classes).
     • Each "committed" run includes the student schedules that were created and the specific Master Schedule Editor used for the run.
     • After committing, the schedule runs are saved so that if adjustments are made to the current Master Schedule Editor and/or student requests and another run is made, the best run can be chosen to be used for the student schedules.
   • If run was unsuccessful, check for request conflicts based on the abandon listing, adjust the master schedule, then do another master schedule run.
8. Adjust individual student schedules by running Student Schedule Maintenance or Pattern Board Student Scheduler.
9. In Master Schedule Editor,check class count size.
10. Verify that all students have a complete schedule using either Print Student Schedules or Student Locator.
11. Assign students to homerooms using the Homeroom/Advisor/Counselor Auto Loader