Use Mobile Guidebook to Evaluate this Session

1. Use Mobile Guidebook to Evaluate this Session

2. John Dickerson Mississippi State University Mary Kincannon Texas Christian University Holly Swart North Carolina State University M2.8 How Do I Find That??: Improving Schedule of Classes Search Options

3. Texas Christian University Background on TCU: • Fall 2013 enrollment: 9,925 (Undergrad & grad) • Nine colleges • 56 departments offering classes in 106 subjects • Just over 3900 class sections created this spring

4. Texas Christian University • TCU is a PeopleSoft school, and has been since May 1999. • Prior to PeopleSoft, we printed five (5) schedules each year: prior to advance registration (fall & spring), at the start of the semester (fall & spring), and an Orientation fall edition in June. • Since the printed schedule was out of date by the time it arrived on campus, our IT folks developed Class Search to provide up-to-date class information to the campus.

5. Texas Christian University • Class Search was a ‘hit’ with students and instructors, and so, during the 1998-1999 year when we implemented PeopleSoft, we stopped printing any schedule books, and everyone relied on Class Search. • After implementation, since the campus was used to using Class Search, we never printed a Schedule of Classes again. • We substituted Class Search as the lookup option within PeopleSoft.

6. TCU Class Search

7. Term Lookup

8. Sort by Session

9. Sort by Location

10. Search by Subject

11. Search by Course

12. Search Results

13. Search by Attribute

14. Attribute Search

15. WOST Attribute Search Results

16. Search by Course Level

17. Search by TCU Core Curriculum

18. Search Results of TCU Core Curriculum

19. Class Search Setup • Enrollment numbers update dynamically. • New classes or day/time/instructor changes requires a ‘refresh.’ • I can run a job to refresh Class Search at any time. • Mostly, the refresh is setup on the process scheduler, set to run at specific times of the day. • I control all of the values in the search boxes. I do not have to involve our IT department.

20. Purple Schedule Builder • We added the Purple Schedule Builder during the summer 2013, with a soft roll-out. We didn’t tell students it was there. • We wanted our entering freshmen to develop schedule-building skills during orientation. • Our current students had no trouble finding it.

21. Purple Schedule Builder

29. Mississippi State University Fall 2013 Enrollment – 20,161 • 16,399 undergraduate • 3,762 graduate and professional Eight Colleges & 45 Departments Just over 4,100 course sections this spring

30. Mississippi State University Banner School since 1998 – Ellucian Banner Ad Astra Client – Astra Scheduling Software

31. Web Portal Log-In

32. Portal Menu

33. Master Class Schedule

34. Accounting Courses

35. Portal Menu

36. Registration Term Selection

37. Scheduling Options

38. Enter Course Sections

39. Course Sections Entered

40. Section Options

41. Section Options

42. Section Options

43. Course Selections

44. Course Selections Continued

45. Course Schedule

46. Mississippi State University Pre-scheduling freshmen for orientation Manual process currently – moving toward an automated process Scheduling Policy Development Beginning Use of Platinum Analytics

47. NC State University Enrollment 30,000+ 9 Colleges 11,000-12,000 class sections scheduled each Fall & Spring Peoplesoft SIS since 2009 Custom Enrollment Wizard since 2012

48. NC State’s Enrollment Wizard

49. Students Can Add Events to their Calendar 1. 2. 3.

50. Choosing Classes: From Planner There are several ways to add courses to your shopping cart. Adding courses directly from your planner is a great way to make sure you’re staying on track! Save yourself time and frustration by searching only for open classes that fit your schedule! This icon indicates that a prerequisite for the course has not been met. Get a quick look at available sections that meet your search requirements. Just click the links to see a listing of sections!