1. Zone Scheduling Mary Rhodes, Associate Registrar

2. Registrar’s Office Ongoing access issues Students can’t register for classes they need Budget issues Rising enrollments Reduced classroom availability due to renovations Outdated Official Class Meeting Time Policy Class schedule congestion

3. Registrar’s Office Legacy Class Meeting Times Pattern 1Pattern 2Pattern 3 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, or 5- credit classes that meet for 50 minutes (MTWRF) 3-credit classes that meet for 80 minutes 4-credit classes that meet for 70 minutes 2 days a week (TR)3 days a week (MWF)* 0800-08500800-09200800-0910 0900-09500930-10500930-1040 1000-10501100-12201100-1210 1100-11501230-13501230-1340 1200-12501400-15201400-1510 1300-13501530-16501530-1640 1400-14501700-18201700-1810 1500-15501830-19501820-1930

4. Registrar’s Office Scheduling Zones Zone 1 (15-20%) 0800-0950 Zone 2 (45%) 1000-1350 Zone 3 (25%) 1400-1550 Zone 4 (15%) 1600-1750 Zone 5 optional 1800-2150

5. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Departments must distribute classes across all five days of the week (approximately 20 percent per day) and across the full class day (according to the percentages defined for each zone).

6. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Five zones. Fifth zone is optional but part of the teaching day and should be utilized when possible. All classes comply with the zones regardless of classroom assignment.

7. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Classes longer than two hours (longer than 110 minutes) per session must be scheduled in Zones 3, 4, or 5.

8. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Class meeting times may not cross zone boundaries –Except classes that meet for longer than two hours may meet in Zones 3, 4, or 5 –Except 500- or 600-level graduate classes that meet longer than two hours per session if they use their own department-controlled classroom.

9. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Non-credit sections are scheduled after all credit-bearing sections are assigned rooms. Use of classroom facilities for non- academic events must be approved and assigned by Schedule Desk.

10. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Classes that meet two days per week for 1 hour and 20 minutes must begin on the first hour of the zone, or at 1200 in Zone 2.

11. Registrar’s Office Zone Guidelines Classes may not begin on the half hour, except – –Zone 1, where 1 hour and 20 minute classes may begin at 0830, and –Zone 4, where classes may begin at 1730.

12. Registrar’s Office Scheduling Pattern Reports Subject Spread in Zone Subject Spread across Week Classes That Cross Zone Boundaries

13. Registrar’s Office Initiatives 2007

14. Registrar’s Office Scheduling Pattern Reports College Subject Spread in Zone Subject Spread Across Week Classes that Currently Cross Zone Boundaries Agricultural Sciences 111 Business 222 Education 333 Engineering 16 Forestry 555 Graduate School 999 Health & Human Sciences 21 Honors College 18 Liberal Arts 10 Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences 13 Science 888 ROTC 11 ALS, International 19, 20

15. Registrar’s Office Subject Spread in Zone

16. Registrar’s Office Subject Spread across Week

17. Registrar’s Office Classes That Cross Zone Boundaries

18. Registrar’s Office Timeline DateInitiativeAction Oct. 10, 2006Zones First of several information sessions about zone scheduling. See additional dates. Oct. 11, 2006Wait Listing, Priority Registration, Second Week Adds Information session with Academic Advising Council about wait listing, priority registration, and second week add initiatives Jan. 30, 2007ZonesDistribute SSR1000 report to departments to prepare class schedule for 2007-2008. Feb. 5, 2007Priority RegistrationRemind students and head advisors to submit transcripts of transfer credit to Admissions Office by April 13 to be included in credits counted for Fall 2007 priority registration. NOTE: This date may change to an earlier date. Please check this page for updates. Feb. 23, 2007ZonesDepartments submit Fall 2007 class schedules that apply class meeting zones Mar. & Apr. 2007Wait Listing & Priority Registration Information sessions to explain operation of wait listing and priority registration. See dates. Apr. 9, 2007Second Week AddsBegin electronic processing of second week class adds for Spring 2007. Apr. 15, 2007Wait ListingBegin wait listing for Summer Session 2007 registration. May.18, 2007Wait Listing, Priority Registration, Zones Begin priority registration based on credits earned and in progress for Fall 2007 registration. Wait listing in effect. Class schedule is based on zones. Jan. 2008Schedule25 & ZonesUse Schedule25 to assign classes to General Purpose classrooms for Spring 2008. Class schedule is based on zones.

19. Registrar’s Office Contacts Questions about updating Fall 2007 class schedule: Linda Miller at Schedule Desk, 7-2181 Linda.Miller@oregonstate.edu Questions about interpretation of Protocol or about possible exceptions: Mary Rhodes, 7-4048 Mary.Rhodes@oregonstate.edu