To Automatically Schedule Students Or To Manually Schedule Students-That Is The Question!

Krystal Flowers

When deciding on how to schedule students for the next academic year, there are a couple of questions to ask:

1. 
   
2. How many students are you scheduling for?
   
3. Is the way you want the students to be scheduled very specific?
   
4. Are you using course requests?
   

If the answers to these questions are:

1. 
   
2. A small number
   
3.  Yes
   
4. No
   

Then the best option is to manually schedule the students. Here is a great resource about How to manually schedule students in classes.


If the answers to these questions are:

1. 
   
2. Too many to count!
   
3. No
   
4. Yes
   

Then automatically scheduling students is the way to go.  This resource is a great way to get familiar with automatic scheduling students.


Check out the following blogs as well that provide steps and tricks to manually and automatically schedule students!

Manually Scheduling Students- It's Easier Than You Think!

Generating Student Schedules Automatically-Easing The Workload