Academic Scheduler Help: Course Editor


The courses database should contain a list of all of the courses the department offers. One restriction the program makes is that a course is taught by a single professor. So in the case where you have a lecture course that has a lab which can be taught by another professor you should create a course for the lecture and a course for the lab. There is a course linker in the program that will allow you to associate the lab with the course, see the page on the Class Linker from the Contents page.

To open the course editor select Edit > Edit Courses... from the main menu. When you do, a small window will open which contains a list of all the courses you currently have in the course database.

At the top is a small toolbar with three buttons. The first is for adding a new course to the database, the second is for editing a current course and the third is for deleting a course. When you add a course an input course dialog box will appear allowing you to input the properties of the course.

To edit a current course either select the course and click the second toolbar button or just double-click the course. When you do, the same course dialog box will appear with the course properties loaded. Simply make the desired changes and select the OK button.

Once your courses have been input they will show up on the course list in the course assignments window, as shown below.

One technical note about courses. Courses are linked to the schedule so if you had a course, say MATH 100, and you change the number to MATH 135, then all of the current Math 100 classes would be changed to MATH 135. Also, if you delete a course any of those classes that were scheduled would be removed from the schedule completely.