Class Level | Units |
---|---|
First-Year | 0-44.9 |
Sophomore | 45-89.9 |
Junior | 90-134.9 |
Senior | 135+ |
Deadlines for approvals, data entry, class notes, and midterms are steps in the production schedule. Class placement, offering publication, and enrollment dates are also included.
Working with faculty, department schedulers add new classes, delete classes that will not be offered, enter expected class size, and request class times. All three terms for the academic year are available for update.
After data have been entered, an algorithm is run each term to place as many classes as possible at the times requested. A period of adjustment follows to find rooms for classes that could not be placed.
Schedules for these special rooms are developed after the departmental schedules have been completed, and follow the same process as described above in the Large Lecture and Large Active Learn room assignment process.
The primary goal of academic scheduling is to develop class times that maximize the chance for students to develop workable schedules in order to make progress towards degree. Academic scheduling encompasses courses, staff, and facilities. Following standard scheduling patterns is the cornerstone to this process. Meshing start and stop times allows students to build a schedule with maximum course selectivity. Another key component is “spreading” courses out during the day, rather than queuing at the popular hours. By spreading course offerings throughout the day, students are better served with more choices, and the university, as a by-product, optimizes the amount of teaching space, and staff resources needed to meet the academic mission. Providing superior course selectivity for students, which has its own benefits, and is of utmost importance, has the natural by-product of decreasing the need to build additional spaces, and freeing up space for other university needs. The fact that Purdue has very good space utilization is a serendipitous result of its approach to developing class schedules for the benefit of its students.
Achieving the best distribution of course offerings, with the subsequent effective use of instructional spaces, begins with central development of the schedule for the limited resources classified as large lecture room and active learn classrooms. Those schedules are developed first, with the subsequent construction of the departmental schedules, encompassing the smaller general purpose classrooms and departmental teaching spaces. Each of these processes is described below.
The resulting schedule is an important tool in meeting students' curricular needs. If a department decides to cancel a section because of insufficient enrollment or for other administrative reasons, the schedule deputy for that department must notify the Office of the Registrar Academic & Classroom Scheduling.
One classroom is assigned for each 45 daytime room-hours of anticipated instruction in classrooms other than large lecture rooms and active learn rooms.
It is the departmental schedule deputy's responsibility to advise each student enrolled in that section to initiate asection change for the course. If there is no other section for that course, the student must officially drop the course. In all cases, students still enrolled in a cancelled section the first Monday after ...
Just like the central scheduling of large lecture rooms, central scheduling of the Large Active Learning facilities promotes equitable and efficient sharing of these limited resources.
The Spring 2021 Policies and Procedures - Policy and Procedural Resources normally included at the beginning of each semester's Schedule of Classes.
The Fall 2020 Schedule of Classes - Online Public Search is updated in real-time. The Fall 2020 Policies and Procedures - Policy and Procedural Resources normally included at the beginning of each semester's Schedule of Classes.
Access the full current academic calendar as well as future academic calendars to find key information including holidays, registration dates, drop/add dates, exams and commencement dates.
The Registrar assists in course and final exam scheduling, exam administration, coordination of exam accommodations for students with disabilities, administering course evaluations and student surveys.
Continuing undergraduate students (enrolled Spring 2022) and undergraduate students readmitted for Summer 2022 will be provided registration assignments based priority group and classification.
Undergraduates may register for up to 6 hours (7 hrs is lab) in summer session. An undergraduate student with an overall grade point average of 3.00 or better may register for a course load in excess of stated limits with the approval of their academic advisor.
Continuing undergraduate students (enrolled Spring 2022) and undergraduate students readmitted for Summer 2022 will be provided registration assignments based priority group and classification.
Undergraduates may register for up to 6 hours (7 hrs is lab) in summer session. An undergraduate student with an overall grade point average of 3.00 or better may register for a course load in excess of stated limits with the approval of their academic advisor.
Continuing undergraduate students (enrolled Spring 2022) and undergraduate students readmitted for Fall 2022 will be provided registration assignments based priority group and classification.
Undergraduates may register for up to 17 hours for the Fall semester during the April preregistration period. Beginning April 18, 2022 undergraduate max hours is raised to permit enrollment up to 19 hours for the fall.
All new undergraduate students admitted to their first term as Summer 2022 will register for summer and fall classes at their designated New Student Conference. See New Student Conference for more information.