The Office of the Registrar’s Academic Scheduling team is rolling out CourseLeaf section scheduler (CLSS), a new platform for scheduling at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·. 

Beginning with Fall 2023 scheduling (opens November 2022), scheduling liaisons will be able to use CLSS rather than Campus Solutions to add and revise classes, update class sections, create combined sections and cancel a class.

This transition brings a more user-friendly interface and more power to scheduling liaisons. In-depth trainings will be held in November, and we also look forward to sharing an overview at tomorrow’s town hall. 

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In partnership with our office, the CU Book Store has been reaching out to instructors to identify required books and other course materials (or confirm that no materials are required) for their Fall 2022 classes by the start of registration: Monday, March 28.

Your help in providing this information, or encouraging others in your department to do so, is much appreciated.

For more information, visit the CU Book Store's webpage or contact Ryan Windle at ryan.windle@colorado.edu or 303-492-3421.

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The academic scheduling team sent this email at 1 p.m. on March 1, 2021, to their department liaisons distribution list.

Hi everyone!

On Feb. 24, campus leadership announced that ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· plans to offer a majority of Fall 2021 classes in person. Today, the Provost announced that to allow time to update the schedule of classes, we have modified a few key fall registration dates. The Fall 2021 schedule of classes and students’ assigned enrollment dates will now be available on Monday, March 29 (postponed by 3 weeks), and fall registration will begin for degree-seeking continuing students, by assignment, on Monday, April 5 (postponed by 1 week). Registration for readmitted students and new graduate students is unchanged and will begin on Monday, April 26, and registration for incoming first-year undergraduate students will begin in July, by appointment.

In support of these modifications regarding Fall 2021, we are making the following adjustments to access and Campus Solutions: 

• Update access in Campus Solutions will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on March 22.
• Room capacities in Campus Solutions will be updated by our staff beginning Monday, March 1 (today) through Thursday, March 4.
• In-person classes will need to have the seat capacities re-evaluated and adjustments made as appropriate.
• Batch rooming will occur in May.

Within the next few days, once updated classroom capacities have been finalized, the Academic Instruction Implementation group, led by Senior Vice Provost Katherine Eggert, will distribute guidance to deans, chairs and directors on evaluating Fall 2021 classes for a return to in-person instruction. To make it possible to room all in-person classes, Academic Scheduling will retain control of classrooms, and colleges, schools, departments and programs should plan to fully utilize the entire teaching schedule, Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–9 p.m., for class scheduling.

Thank you all for your patience and collaboration.

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In partnership with our office, the CU Book Store has been reaching out to instructors to identify required books and other course materials (or confirm that no materials are required) for their Spring 2021 classes by the start of registration: Monday, Nov. 9.

Your help in providing this information, or encouraging others in your department to do so, is much appreciated.

For more information, visit the CU Book Store's webpage or contact Ryan Windle at ryan.windle@colorado.edu or 303-492-3421.

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• "Spring 2021 Updated Timeline and Instructions," Academic Scheduling Team, 8/26/2020

A revised Spring 2021 academic scheduling timeline is now available; see side-by-side date changes below.

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The academic scheduling team sent this email on Aug. 26, 2020, to their department liaisons distribution list.

Now that Fall 2020 is underway, we can proceed with scheduling for Spring 2021! Spring 2021 will be much like Fall 2020. The same new standard meeting patterns with a 20 minute gap between classes will still be used. COVID adjusted room capacities will still be in place, and departments should expect to offer the same mix of in person and remote or online instruction modes.  Plan to use Fall 2020 as a template to help determine the number of classes to offer In Person, Hybrid In Person/Remote—Online, Remote, Hybrid Remote/Online or Online. There will also be some changes to scheduling procedures for Spring 2021 as outlined below and in the revised timeline for Spring 2021. 

A few key date changes to make note of regarding the building of the schedule of classes:

Department update access for Spring 2021 will be extended through September 13^th. Access will be temporarily suspended September 14^th through October 18^th while we work on the batch rooming of classes. Starting on October 19th departments will have one week of full update access to make adjustments to their class schedule including swapping rooms between classes, cancelling sections or changing the instruction mode. The Spring 2021 class schedule will be viewable to students starting on November 2^nd.  

Since large classes will still not be offered in Spring 2021, we will not be assigning classes from the Large room requests.  For those departments that submitted specific room requests, we will be reaching out to those departments to work on those requests.  

For those classes that will go through the batch rooming process, make the following adjustments to prepare those classes before update access ends on September 13^th:

• Leave the Facility ID field blank
• Set up the class using one of the new standard meeting patterns
• For Hybrid In Person classes—set the Requested Room Capacity field to match the room size that will fit your rotation of students.  For example, set the Requested Room Capacity field to 14 if the class meets 2 times a week, the overall enrollment capacity is 28, and half the students will rotate on each day.
• For In Person classes—set the Requested Room Capacity field to match the room size that will fit the enrollment capacity for the class.  For example if the enrollment capacity will be 30, the Requested Room Capacity field should be set at 30. 
• Please be aware that room options are limited, so setting the Requested Room Capacity field as accurately as possible will help your chances in securing a space

For classes that will not be roomed via the batch rooming process, make the following adjustments before update access ends on September 13th:

• For any classes set up with Remote, Hybrid Remote/Online or Online instruction modes, be sure to populate the Facility ID on those classes with BREMOTE or BONLINE before you lose access. 
• For those classes that will be assigned into a department scheduled space, be sure to populate the appropriate Facility ID on those classes before you lose access

Academic Scheduling was given permission to schedule classes in certain department scheduled spaces in Fall 2020, and this will continue in Spring 2021.  Departments can pre-assign classes in those department scheduled spaces, but we ask that you adhere to the following:

• Use in same manner as Fall 2020
• Do not schedule in excess in these spaces (i.e. adding a lot of extra sections to block or hold space for potential future changes)
• Use standard meeting times
• We may need to work with you to make adjustments to maximize availability in those spaces such as adjusting class times, looking at spaces for better fit, etc. 

NOTE: Academic Scheduling will NOT be distributing a list of classrooms and available times after batch rooming is completed. We have found that over the past few semesters, the number of unroomed classes left after batch rooming has increased drastically. This has been due to a high number of requests for a certain few meeting patterns where demand far exceeds the supply of available rooms. The distribution of a list of available rooms/times to try to address all of these unroomed classes has become unsustainable. Instead of continuing in this direction, we are asking departments to plan for a well distributed schedule from the outset, scheduling classes across all meeting patterns for those classes that will be roomed via the batch rooming process. And we are asking departments to refrain from adding an excessive number of classes over the number that will actually be taught, i.e. padding schedules with extra sections. If there are any classes that are still left unroomed after batch rooming, Academic Scheduling will attempt to place these classes at different meeting patterns/times when there are rooms available. However, we expect there to be a significant decrease in the number of unroomed classes if everyone makes an effort to distribute classes across a wide range of meeting patterns. 

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The majority of adjustments to the Fall 2020 schedule of classes have now been completed to support a safe return to campus.

As promised in our initial schedule adjustment e-memo, we'll contact current undergraduate and graduate students tonight with details about schedule adjustment, , and a preview of forthcoming guidance around first-day attendance for hybrid and waitlisted classes. See the e-memo section below for details.

As a reminder, graduate student registration is still open; degree-seeking undergraduates can add, drop or swap classes starting Monday, Aug. 3; and open enrollment for all students begins Monday, Aug. 10.

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Please help us encourage faculty to submit their Fall 2020 course material information as soon as possible.

If an instructor or teaching format has changed, the CU Book Store is happy to help modify the submitted textbook adoption. Course material format options include Day 1 Digital Access, used and new rentals, and other ebook formats.

For more information, visit the CU Book Store's or contact Erin Schol at erin.schol@colorado.edu or 303-492-3420.

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Starting Monday, June 15, our office will start adjusting the Fall 2020 schedule of classes to meet the health and safety goals that will enable our return to campus. Adjustments are expected to continue through mid-to-late July.

We're working to minimize disruptions to continuing students' existing class schedules. They'll receive an email on Monday with information about what to expect while these changes are in progress, and a reminder that they'll be able to change their schedules starting in early August.

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As announced this afternoon in the faculty and staff edition of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Today, our office has created new remote and hybrid remote/online instruction modes to designate Summer 2020 courses originally offered in an in-person format.

Summer school deans, department chairs and department schedulers were emailed instructions on how to change summer class instruction modes this afternoon. Please work with those individuals to submit your changes by May 1 for Maymester classes, and by May 15 for other summer session classes.

Read more: ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Today announcement, including instruction mode definitions

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