Pattern Board Student Scheduler

• PATTERN BOARD PANEL DISCUSSION

• • Course requests for a student are listed on the right side of the panel. Requests are loaded by seledcting items from the course catalog master at the bottom of the screen. When the requests are loaded the software will access the master schedule and place a square in the semester and class period reflected in the master schedule record. All offerings for the selected course will be listed in the panel. Characters representing the status of the square will be printed within the square and color shaded. Blue with a black S is a single scheduled offering. A red S in a blue cell a scheduled item where multiple offerings are available for the same time frame. A yellow cell containing an A contains available unscheduled items where all offorings are 50 to 80% full and can be reviewed with a right click within the master schedule. A green cell with an A stipulates up to 50% full in this time frame. An A in a red cell indicates 80 to 99% full. A F in a red cell indicates that all offerings are completely full where the scheduled students equal or exceed the maximum seat count set forth in the master schedule records which can be reviewed with a right click on the applicable cell.

• FINDING A COURSE IN THE COURSE MASTER and loading a request

• • The course master is used to load requests to the student panel by finding the desired course by grade and clicking the course name which will automatically load it to the student panel above. The user can navigate through the course master by clicking any header producing a sort order for selection. Minor sorts to a major order are respected. An example would be to view course within grade by clicking the course header as minor then clicking grade as major. Then the desired course is located then click the course name and the item will be loaded to the student panel as a request. Two other navigation methods exist. 1--the alpha panel 2--the typing panel The typing panel is the initial default when entering the pattern board. You may type all or partial search characters. You may also set the column you wish search by clicking that column header then type your search characters. The same procedure applies to the alpha panel except it will allow only one character group search.