Bell Schedule by Grade level

@Amy Welsh - I assume that by “bell schedule” you mean when class periods begin and end.

A schedule is defined by a “Schedule Set” (Academics > Scheduling > Schedule Outline). It is true that a schedule set is defined for one division. (If you wanted to have the same schedule in both US and MS, you would have to duplicate the schedule set for each division.)

However, a division can have more than one schedule set active at the same time, and a section of a class can be scheduled using a block from any of the active schedule sets.

You can have classes for your 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th on different schedules, by using a different schedule set for each grade level. You would have to be very careful about how you name the blocks so that the block name tells you which schedule set it's used in.

You can have different sections of a course use blocks from different schedule sets. (For example, one section of an Art class can use a block from the 5th grade schedule set and another section could use a block from the 6th grade schedule set.)

The good news is that if you get this set up correctly for one year, you can copy all of the schedule sets into future years as part of the roll-over process.

@Amy Welsh We do exactly as Brian describes. It all comes down to having distinct blocks for each grade level (we prefix ours with the grade number, e.g. 6C1, 7EL2, 8C4). Then you can put them all into a single schedule set if the meeting times match but the blocks are different, or just create whole new schedule sets for each grade. We create one per grade (and one for physical education) just so we don't repeat meeting times over and over in the same set - it can get hard to keep track of - as shown below. We also separate by trimester because some of our blocks for electives change their slots each trimester. If that didn't happen, we would just do one set per grade per year.