{"id":843,"date":"2016-09-12T18:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/faculty\/?p=843"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:20:16","slug":"class-schedules-adding-students-to-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/faculty\/2016\/09\/12\/class-schedules-adding-students-to-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Schedules & Adding Students to Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

I trust your semester is off to a good start!<\/p>\n

A couple of quick points of clarification regarding the class schedule and adding students to your courses.<\/p>\n

The Schedule and Passing Times:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A few of you are aware that one of the features of the new class schedule is that passing times will no longer be implicit in the published class schedule. Rather, they will be explicit<\/strong>. That is, if a course is supposed to meet Tuesday\/Thursday 8:00-9:15 and be dismissed at 9:15, giving students 15 minutes to travel to his or her next class,\u00a0that is indeed what will be published in the schedule.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, this new convention does not take effect until Spring 2017.\u00a0<\/strong>For this final Fall 2016 semester, the existing implicit passing time remains in place. So, for example, if a class is listed as Monday\/Wednesday 12:30-2:00, you should in fact dismiss the class by 1:50 so that 1) the students will have time to make it to their next class, and 2) your fellow faculty members will have time to set up for their class.<\/p>\n

Adding Students to Your Courses:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is important to note that policies and procedures differ on the undergraduate and graduate sides of the House of Questrom.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We have now closed the UDC waitlist system.<\/strong>\u00a0 We are notifying any student still waiting on the list that we were unable to secure him\/her a seat in the requested course\/section.\u00a0 (The good news is there were only a few dozen compared to the 2300+ we were able to accommodate \u2013 bravo to Becky DiMattia and Brinia Colbert for their work on this.)<\/p>\n

Once classes begin, students may be coming to you seeking your signature on drop\/add forms.<\/strong>\u00a0 (Blank forms are available in the UDC, which is also where signed forms may be submitted.)\u00a0 It is up to you whether or not you sign students into your course.*\u00a0 Please consider the following when deciding whether or not to sign students into your course:<\/p>\n