The Course Assignments window is where you assign courses to professors and where you drag and drop these courses into rooms and times. This window is always present, it can not be closed but it can be minimized. Once you load in a schedule file or finish creating the supporting databases it should look something like the image below.
On the left is the list of courses in your course database and on the right is the list of professor in your professor database. 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 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, this that the class has not been assigned to a room or a time.
To place a course in a room all you need to do is drag and drop a course from the professor's course list to a timeslot in a room viewer. For example, say we have the following course assignments,
If we drag the Math 201 to our MWF 12:00 slot, the Math 210 to the MWF 10:00 slot, tne Math 155 to the MWF 2:00 slot and the Math 160 to the M 5:30-8:15 slot the assignment window and room windows will look like the following.
The first thing to note is the change in the color scheme of the icons. The red icons mean that the course has not been allocated at all, the yellow means that the course is partially allocated (Math 201 and 210 are both four-credit courses and they are only assigned three hours each), the darker green means that the course is fully allocated and the light green means that the course is over allocated (Math 160 is a three credit course so it needs to meet 150 minutes per week but 5:30-8:15 is 165 minutes). So when you are creating a schedule and need to know if you are finished you simply scroll down the professor list and if all of the courses are green you are good to go.
There is one other color, blue, that is used when the course does not need to meet the number of contact hours per week. This would be the case with courses like independent studies, student research, internships, ....
If you right click on any course in the professor's course list the Class Popup Menu will appear allowing you to change the course properties. Also, if you double-click on the course the course properties box will appear allowing you to change all of the course properties.