Course Sections

Once courses have been assigned to a summer school, course sections may be created. During section creation, assign a teacher to the section. On the start page, choose School from the main menu. 

1. Navigate to the Course Sections page. 
2. Choose the course name from the courses menu. The course information page lists the course sections.
3. Click New. 

4. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Course Name	The name of the course you selected appears.
   Course Number	To define a section for a different course number than the one you selected, enter that course number.
   Term	Choose the appropriate term from the menu.
   Schedule	Select the checkboxes for the combination of days and periods in which this section meets. For example, select the checkbox for Period 1 and Day A if a section of Chemistry meets during first period on A days.
   Teacher	Choose the appropriate teacher from the menu. For a staff member to show in this menu, the Staff Status field on the staff member's Information page must be set to Teacher.
   Room	Enter the room in which this course section meets.
   Section Number	Enter the section number in this field. Do not enter special characters. Section numbers must be unique among sections of the same course for a given school year.
   Grade Level	If this course is available only for a certain grade level, enter the grade level. Otherwise, leave this field blank.
   Current Enrollment	The number of students currently enrolled in this course section appears.
   Maximum Enrollment	Enter the maximum number of students who can enroll in this course section.
   District Where Taught	If this course section is taught outside your district, enter the other district's ID in this field.
   School Where Taught	If this course section is taught outside your school, enter the school's ID in this field.
   Dependent Sections	If this course section has dependent sections, enter them in this field using the course.section, course.section format. If a student is enrolled in a class, it is not teacher-specific, but rather section-specific. Often used by elementary schools where students take a set of classes, dependent sections indicate that if a student is registered in one class, he or she must also register for the dependent class. If the dependent section conflicts with another class, you can manually drop the student from the class and add him or her to another section. This function has no implications for prerequisites or graduation requirements.
   Program	Intended primarily for California Continuation Education alternative education program, the program you specify here identifies whether backfill should be applied when attendance is taken for the section. For more information, refer to Backfill Management.
   Record Attendance Using Attendance Mode	Use the menu to indicate the method by which you want attendance recorded. At this time, Meeting attendance is your only option.
   Record Attendance	If the section meets more than one period in a day, you can choose to take attendance once or for every period by selecting the Once for All Meetings option or the Each Meeting Separately option.
   Exclude From Attendance	Select the checkbox if you do not want attendance and enrollment in this section to be counted towards any ADA/ADM calculations.
   Exclude From Storing Final Grades	Select the checkbox to skip this section when storing grades. This setting is useful in cases where storing grades may not be appropriate, such as study hall or lunch.
   Grade Scale	Choose the grade scale from the menu.
   Exclude from GPA?	If different from the course settings, select the option to either include or exclude the grade from the GPA calculation.
   Exclude from Class Rank?	If different from the course settings, select the option to either include or exclude the grade from the class rank calculation.
   Exclude from Honor Roll?	If different from the course settings, select the option to either include or exclude the grade from the honor roll calculation.
   Section Type	Identifies the section as open only to be filled by students whose course requests are designated as the same section type. Choose the type of section, such as Bilingual, from the menu (optional).
   House	Identifies the section as open only to be filled by students who are designated as belonging to the same house. Whether this is enforced depends on the state of the scheduling preference Use Houses. Click Associate to select a house to which this section belongs.
   Team	Identifies the section as open only to be filled by students who are designated as belonging to the same team. Choose the team associated with this section from the menu.
   Close section at max	Identifies whether to enroll students into the section even if the maximum enrollment has been reached. If this is selected, no students will be enrolled if the current enrollment is equal to or greater than the maximum enrollment. Select the checkbox to not accept more enrollments than the maximum number of enrolled students.
   Maximum Load Status	Use the menu to indicate whether the section should be exempt from counting towards a teacher's maximum student load: Exempt: Students enrolled in this section do not count towards a teacher's maximum student load. Lab: Same as non-exempt. Non-Exempt: Students enrolled in this section count towards a teacher's maximum student load. At this time, the Non-Exempt selection is not saved on this page. Use USM to set sections as non-exempt. In the Sections table, set the Max_Load_Status field to Non-Exempt. For existing non-exempt sections and for all new sections, no values are stored for this field unless they are set to Lab or Exempt on this page, or they set to any of the three status types using USM. Sections with no values are ignored when calculating the teacher maximum load.
   Allow PowerTeacher entry of Variable Awarded Credit	Use the menu to indicate whether or not to permit teachers to enter variable awarded credit, earned credit. If Yes is chosen, the Variable Awarded Credit column appears in PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook on the Scoresheet in Final Grade mode. Teachers may enter any desired numerical value. This menu only appears when editing a section. To set variable awarded credit for multiple sections, refer to Variable Credit Setup.
   Allow PowerTeacher entry of Variable Attempted Credit	Use the menu to indicate whether or not to allow teachers to enter variable attempted credit, potential credit. If Yes is chosen, the Variable Attempted Credit column appears in PowerTeacher Pro Gradebook on the Scoresheet in Final Grade mode. Teachers may enter any desired numerical value. This menu only appears when editing a section. To set variable attempted credit for multiple sections, refer to Variable Credit Setup.

5. Click Submit.