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Scheduling Optimizer Newsletters

The newsletters are listed below. Click on the month to read the newsletter. Subscribe to our newsletter. Newsletters are posted during scheduling season (February through July).

2005 Newsletters

June

- printing formatted Master Schedule Grids with Word

- experimenting with section maximums

- defining quarter section pairs which make valid semester combinations

- generating teacher and room schedule grids with all terms across the same page using the Optimizer v6.11 beta

February

- installing the new version 6.10 (January 2005) of the Scheduling Optimizer

- upgrading your Microsoft XML version for faster Optimizer reports

- updating your SASIxp setup to use Optimizer in the new scheduling year

- adjusting Internet Explorer security for Optimizer reports on the local computer

- early course request analysis using the Request Conflict Pairs and Tally reports

- exploring the Optimizer reports

2004 Newsletters

July	- new beta version 6.05b of the Scheduling Optimizer - excluding master schedule sections from the Optimizer - troubleshooting note: "Unable to read file of master schedule sections" message - troubleshooting note: removing unwanted prescheduling from student course requests - producing Scheduling Optimizer reports from Basic Scheduling
May	- new beta version 6.04 of the Scheduling Optimizer - using term preference/override entries in student course requests - printing formatted Master Schedule lists with Word - recognizing double period courses in term load balancing - restricting student schedule availability - ordering the Master Schedule Grids by teacher group
April	- new beta version 6.02b of the Scheduling Optimizer - analyzing duplicate meeting times in the master schedule - finding classes with no teacher or room allocated - tracking invalid course requests part 1: requests invalid in ACRS - tracking invalid course requests part 2: requests invalid in ASMS - listing the students who request both of a given pair of courses
February	Let's get ready for scheduling! - installing the new version 6.0 (January 2004) of the Scheduling Optimizer - updating your Microsoft XML version for faster Optimizer reports - updating your SASIxp setup to use Optimizer in the new scheduling year - preparing department codes for reporting in SQL Server and Oracle installations - early course request analysis using the Request Conflict Pairs and Tally reports - viewing an online demonstration of the Optimizer v6.0 reports

2003 Newsletters

August	- producing Scheduling Optimizer reports from Basic Scheduling - displaying periods numbered from 0 in the Scheduling Optimizer reports - avoiding problems with the "Assign A to the same students as B" loader rule
July	- sorting the Master Schedule Grids by teacher team - running an "Optimizer only" simulation - filtering courses in the Request Conflict Pairs reports by enrollment - balancing a special group of students in shared classes
June	- scheduling students using more than one course request alternate - preventing preschedules from failing due to zero section limits - hiding section fill data in Master Schedule Grid reports - printing Scheduling Optimizer report information - running a simulation which assigns new schedules only to students with conflicts or outdated course request information
May	- how to find sections with capacities that may be higher than those of their allocated rooms - assigning Must and Try course link rule priorities to automate conflict resolution - sorting onscreen schedule displays by term - balancing student course loads by term - identifying students scheduled with a course request alternate
April	- analyzing student course requests with new version 5.04 reports - using Scheduling Optimizer reports to troubleshoot your scheduling data - making use of student course request options
March	- let's get ready for scheduling!

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