Alternatives for Class

Screen Description

The Alternatives screen offers alternatives for classes in the Student Scheduling Assistant screen. Some alternatives may include changes in the times/rooms of other classes, but in that case, all changes are described as part of the alternatives.

Details

There is color coding for the proposed changes:

Blue: the class on which the user clicked will be moved in time or room
Black: another class will be changed, but it will still be a part of the student’s timetable
Red: a class will be removed from the student’s timetable to make space for the suggested alternative; this way, it is also possible to assign a course with lower priority at the cost of removing a course with higher priority

Filter

Filter assignments of the selected class by name, day, start time, date, room, or instructor. Hit Search to update the list of alternatives.

You can also use the following tags:

name: class name
day: class must meet on this day or days (e.g., monday, MWF
time: class must start at this time (e.g., 730)
before: class must end before or by this time
after: class must start on or after this time
date: class must meet on this date
room: class must use this room or building
instructor: class must have this instructor
Use or, and, not, and brackets to build a boolean query.
Example for a Monday class starting at 7:30 am or 8:30 am:
```
 day: monday and (time: 730 or time: 830)
```

Operations

Click on the alternative that should be part of the timetable to apply the changes and return to the Student Scheduling Assistant screen. To leave the screen without applying any changes, click outside the Alternatives window. Hovering over an alternative will show what the new schedule would look like in a grid.

Click Drop to remove the course from the schedule.

When the course can be wait-listed, click Wait-List to wait-list the course. This is useful when the course is full (there are no alternatives available), or when you would like to wait-list for a particular section that is currently full.