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At some schools, administrative staff or guidance counselors enter student course requests directly in PowerSchool for their students. Perhaps all of the ninth graders at your school have made their requests on paper. All initial student course requests and those entering student course requests on behalf of students should enter the student course requests in PowerSchool, not in the scheduling area. Use the scheduling area to change or delete student course requests after the initial requests are made in PowerSchool.

Note: If you use need to edit a request after it has been submitted, do so in the scheduling area. For more information, see Student Course Requests.

Because course requests can be made for the current year or for other scheduling years, you must set the schedule year for student requests made in PowerScheduler, in the PowerSchool Student and Parent portal, or on the Requests [Scheduling Year] page in PowerSchool. For more information, see Set the Schedule Year.

Modify Current Course Requests

This function lets students select the courses for the upcoming term within the current school year for which they want to register.

  1. On the start page, search for and select a student.
  2. Under Scheduling, choose Request Management from the student pages menu. 
  3. Click Modify Current Requests

  4. Use the following table to view search results:

    Field

    Description

    Course Catalog

    To reference the course catalog for the selected scheduling year, click Course Catalog. For more information, see Reference the Course Catalog.

    [Course Group]

    Course requests are grouped by course group. If a course requests is not associated to a course group, it appears under Additional Requests.

    Note: If a course group appears read-only, it must be edited in PowerScheduler.

    [Course]

    Requested courses.

    If the following appear, click view more information:

    • A red Exclamation icon indicates an alert.
    • A Note icon appears if the course contains prerequisite notes.
    • A Road icon indicates a teacher has recommended the course.

    [Edit]

    Click the Pencil icon next to request a course or modify and existing request.

    If the following appear, click view more information:

    • A green Checkmark icon indicates if the request listed satisfies the requirements of the course group.
    • A red Exclamation icon indicates an alert.

    Requires at least credit hours

    Indicates the minimum number of credit hours in all course groups excluding Additional Requests.

    Requesting credit hours

    Indicates the sum of credit hours in all course groups excluding Additional Requests.

    Requesting additional credit hours

    Indicates the sum of credit hours of requested courses under Additional Requests.

  5. Click Submit. View the results of these choices on the Requests View page. For more information, see View Course Requests.

Modify Future Course Requests

Students can select the courses for the next scheduling year for which they want to register.

Note: The scheduling year is defined in PowerScheduler. For more information, see Set the Schedule Year.

  1. On the start page, search for and select a student.
  2. Under Scheduling, choose Request Management from the student pages menu. 
  3. Click Modify Future Requests.

  4. Use the following table to view search results:

    Field

    Description

    Course Catalog

    To reference the course catalog for the selected scheduling year, click Course Catalog. For more information, see Reference the Course Catalog.

    [Course Group]

    Course requests are grouped by course group. If a course requests is not associated to a course group, it appears under Additional Requests.

    Note: If a course group appears read-only, it must be edited in PowerScheduler.

    [Course]

    Requested courses.

    If the following appear, click view more information:

    • A red Exclamation icon indicates an alert.
    • A Note icon appears if the course contains prerequisite notes.
    • A Road icon indicates a teacher has recommended the course.

    [Edit]

    Click the Pencil icon next to request a course or modify and existing request.

    If the following appear, click view more information:

    • A green Checkmark icon indicates if the request listed satisfies the requirements of the course group.
    • A red Exclamation icon indicates an alert.

    Requires at least credit hours

    Indicates the minimum number of credit hours in all course groups excluding Additional Requests.

    Requesting credit hours

    Indicates the sum of credit hours in all course groups excluding Additional Requests.

    Requesting additional credit hours

    Indicates the sum of credit hours of requested courses under Additional Requests.

  5. Click Submit. View the results of these choices on the Requests View page. For more information, see View Course Requests.

Reference the Course Catalog

Using the Course Catalog pop-up, you can reference the course catalog for the selected scheduling year.

  1. On the start page, search for and select a student.
  2. Under Scheduling, choose Request Management from the student pages menu. 
  3. Do one of the following:
    1. Click Modify Current Requests
    2. Click Modify Future Requests.
  4. Click Course Catalog
  5. Enter search criteria in the Search field.
  6. To filter by columns:
    1. Click +.
    2. From the first pop-up menu, choose one of the following:
      1. Course Name
      2. Course Number
      3. Description
    3. Enter search criteria in the search field.
      Note: Use a comma-separated list for multiple values.
    4. Click Apply. The page refreshes and display filtered results.
  7. To add another filter, click + and repeat steps a through d.

    Note: The + appears shaded if all filters have been added.

  8. To delete a filter, click - next the filter.
  9. Click Apply. The page refreshes and display filtered results.

    Note: To remove all filter selections, click Clear.

  10. Use the following table to view search results:

    Note: Click the name of a column to sort by that column in ascending order. Click again to sort in descending order. By default, students are sorted by Name and then Grade Level.

    Field

    Description

    Course Name

    The course name appears.

    Course Number

    The course number appears.

    Description

    The course description appears.

    [Pagination]

    Use to navigate the search results.

    Rows/Page

    By default, ten records display per page. To view more records per page, enter the appropriate number in the field.

  11. Click Close when done.
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