The first step in building a schedule is to assign classes to professors. If this is the first time you have used this scheduler you will need to enter course, professor, timeslot and room information into the databases before you start. This can be a lengthy process but fortunately you only need to do this once. If you have already used this scheduler before simply load in a previous schedule, save it to a different file name and then select File > New > Clear Schedule and Office Hours... from the main menu. This will clear the previous schedule and office hours but will keep the supporting databases. Make whatever changes you need to to the supporting databases, such as adding new professors, changing course numbers, ... and you are ready to go.
In this step you will only need one window, the Course Assignments window. This window is always present, it can not be closed but it can be minimized. It should look something like the image below.
On the left is a list of courses and on the right is the professor list. In the course list you will see that for each course there is information for the number of sections, maximum enrollment, and staff. When you assign a course to a professor the number of sections of that course will increase and the short designation for the professor will appear in the staff list. The maximum enrollment will change in step three when you assign classes to rooms. In the professor list there is a workload calculation to help you determine when someone has a full load. Currently the workload calculation takes only standard courses and labs into account. The divider between the course list and the professor list is movable.
To assign a course to a professor simply click and drag the course to the professor. After dragging Math 201 and Math 210 to Mike Bardzell and Math 202 to Jennifer Bergner the course assignments window looks like the following.
Notice that the workload calculation gives the workload in both decimal and credit hour form. In the decimal form a 0.5 would be a 12 hour load. Also notice the red icon beside the classes. The color of this icon tells you how the class is currently allocated, as far as time and rooms. We will discus this in more detail in step two of creating a schedule. Red means that the class has not been assigned to a room or a time.
At this point you can move onto step two. If you click on a course in a professor's course list it will highlight in light blue. Now if you right click on that course you will see the class popup menu. For more information on the facilities in this menu follow the following link.