Student Course Requests

Student course requests are critical to scheduling, whether you use PowerScheduler or Automated Walk-In (AWI) scheduling. During the PowerScheduler Build process, for example, Student Course Requests are utilized to determine how many sections of a course are required. During the Scheduler Load process or when using AWI scheduling, the Requests are used to place the students into their desired or required courses. Requests can also be used to make PowerScheduler and AWI scheduling load students into selected sections of a course.

When using PowerScheduler to build a master schedule or load students into courses, the goal is to satisfy as many student course requests and to have the most balanced schedule possible. Both PowerScheduler and AWI scheduling utilize student course requests when creating Master Schedules or Student Schedules.

Before creating student course request pages, some preparation is required. This involves setting up the schools on the PowerSchool server for the upcoming scheduling year, setting student scheduling preferences, adding any new courses, collecting the appropriate grade-level requirement information, and creating course groups and student request screens. Once complete, you can then begin building or loading schedules for the next school year.

The student course request process involves several steps. Complete these steps in the following order:

1. Create a scenario for each school before using PowerScheduler to build master schedules or load student schedules for each new scheduling year. It is recommended that you use Auto Schedule Setup to create a scenario for all schools in your district, whether or not the school will use PowerScheduler for scheduling purposes. That way, the appropriate students and their course requests will appear in the correct schools during the scheduling process. For more information, refer to Build Scenarios Overview.
2. Set the schedule year for the upcoming year at all schools on the PowerSchool server. Approximate start and end dates for the new scheduling year will be required; these can be modified later, if necessary. For more information, refer to Set the Schedule Year.
3. Set the Next School, Next Year Grade, and Schedule This Student indicators for all active students using the Student Field Value and Next School group functions or by setting each student individually from the student's Schedule Setup page. These fields, with the exception of Next School, may also be mass-filled for each school using the Auto Fill Student Information function in PowerScheduler. Note that the Next School indicator must be set before using this function for those students who will be scheduled. For more information, refer to Build Scenarios Overview.
4. Add new courses to the Available Courses for [Year] page at any schools that will be using them for scheduling, then activate the courses in the course catalogs. For more information, refer to Courses and Course Catalogs.

5. Collect appropriate grade-level information. For more information about what information to gather, refer to the Grade-Level Requirements section.

6. Create course groups. For more information, refer to the Course Groups section.
7. Create student course request pages. For more information, refer to the Student Course Request Pages section.
8. Enter student course requests. For more information, refer to the Student Course Request Entry section.

Grade-Level Requirements

Determine the individual course requirements at your school, such as the names of required courses and number of credits students must take in each grade level. Having all of this information readily available for reference will make it much easier to create the student course request pages.

Collect the following information for each grade level:

• Required courses
• Number of credits that must be taken
• Possible semester elective courses
• Possible year-long elective courses
• Possible no-credit courses
• Number of terms for each request
• Before- or after-school courses
• Possible lunch periods

The following is an example of what you might collect for a ninth-grade request page:

Course Groups

To make it easier for students, parents, or staff members to enter requests, you have the option of creating course groups. Course groups represent the courses that are available to a student for a specific request.

For example, when eighth-grade students select a ninth-grade elective course for the next school year, they are presented with a list of valid ninth-grade elective course options. Students must make their selection from the list of courses that you determine are valid for a particular selection.

It is recommended that course groups for scheduling use should only contain courses that require the same number of student course requests. For example, you should not combine single semester courses with year-long courses, as this could lead to an inaccurate count of requests and credit hours.

Create the lists by making a course group for all predetermined requirements. For example, in the case that you need to create six course groups for a particular grade level, you might create three groups for core courses, one for semester electives, one for year-long electives, and one for no credit electives.

Create a Course Group

Repeat this process for all course groups required for each grade level or request type at your school.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Course Groups from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Choose in which order you want courses to be listed on student course request pages, either by course name or course number,.
4. Click New in the courses menu. 

5. Use the following table to enter information in the fields.

   Field	Description
   Name	Enter a name for the course group. All course groups and graduation requirement sets must have unique names in all schools. If there are multiple schools on your server, you may want to create a system for naming your course groups so that they sort in a certain way. For example, you might call the course group containing Apple Grove High School’s ninth-grade core courses AGHS-9-Core Courses. If you followed this system, all of your schools would sort together, as would the grade levels within them.
   Type	Choose the type of course group: Both: Course group is for both scheduling and graduation requirement purposes. Existing groups are set to Both by default. Scheduling Only: Course group is used for scheduling purposes only. Graduation Set Only: Course group is used for graduation requirement purposes only.
   Applies to	Choose whether you want to apply the course group to all schools or only to the current school. By default, course groups are only applied to the current school.

6. Select the checkbox next to the name of each course that should belong to this group.
7. Click Submit. 

Delete a Course Group

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Course Groups from the PowerScheduler menu.
3. Choose the course group you want to edit from the courses menu. 
4. Click Delete.
5. Click Confirm Delete. 

Student Course Request Pages

Create course requirements and student course request pages for each grade level in the school. The course request pages contain courses you select for the various course groups from which students can make their selections. The request pages require students to select only courses and electives that have been approved for their grade level. If you need to make an exception, you can do so manually. For more information about grade-specific requirements, refer to the Requirements section.

Course Request Screens are relevant to whatever is selected as the scheduling year. The scheduling year also determines which Request Screen appears to parents and students. For example, if the current school year is 2011-2012 and the schedule year is set to 2012-2013, students who are in tenth grade during 2011-2012 will use the Grade 11 request screen. For more information, refer to Set the Schedule Year.

When creating a year, the corresponding registration records from the previous year are copied to the new year. If registration records already exist for the school and year, then the registration records are not copied.

Create a Request Screen in PowerScheduler

Because course requirements vary for each grade level, you can create new or edit existing course request pages for each grade level in your school. The Next School Indicator field points to the school students will attend next year. For example, a school district consists of two high schools and three junior high schools. An eighth-grader entering student course requests will view the request page for the high school set as his or her next school. Other eighth graders, whose next school is set to the other high school, would view a different request page.

It is important to set all students' next school indicator, even if they stay at the same school next year. For more information, refer to Student Information.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Note the Future Requests menu displays all of the grade levels at your school.

4. Click the appropriate grade level. 

   The grade level selected refers to the students' next year grade level.

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

   Field	Description
   Enable student registration screen for this grade in	Indicate which portals you want the student registration screen for this grade to appear by choosing the appropriate checkboxes: PowerSchool Admin Portal PowerSchool Student and Parent Portal Click Preview Student Registration Screen to preview the registration screen.
   Message to display on registration screens for students in this grade:	Enter any text you want to display on registration screens for students in this grade.
   Number of credit hours each student must submit (excluding alternate requests)	Enter a minimum and maximum number of credits needed to complete the registration process. For example, you could enter 5 for Minimum and 7 for Maximum, thus ensuring that no student takes courses whose total credit hours are less than five or more than seven. Leaving the Minimum and Maximum fields blank makes it possible for students to request too many or too few credit hours.
   New Single Course Requirement	To enter a single class requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   New Multi-Course Requirement	To enter a multi-class requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   New Core Requirement	To enter a core requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Sort Order	Indicate the order in which you want requirements to display on the registration screens.
   Requirement Name	The name of the requirement. Click to access the requirements page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Type	Indicates the type of requirement: Core Required, Multi-Course, or Single Course. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Course Group	Indicates the course group. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Enable student registration screen for this grade in	Indicate which portals you want the student registration screen for this grade to appear by choosing the appropriate checkboxes: PowerSchool Admin Portal PowerSchool Student and Parent Portal Click Preview Student Registration Screen to preview the registration screen.
   Message to display on registration screens for students in this grade:	Enter any text you want to display on registration screens for students in this grade.
   Number of credit hours each student must submit (excluding alternate requests)	Enter a minimum and maximum number of credits needed to complete the registration process. For example, you could enter 5 for Minimum and 7 for Maximum, thus ensuring that no student takes courses whose total credit hours are less than five or more than seven. Leaving the Minimum and Maximum fields blank makes it possible for students to request too many or too few credit hours.
   New Single Course Requirement	To enter a single class requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   New Multi-Course Requirement	To enter a multi-class requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   New Core Requirement	To enter a core requirement, click to access the Grade-Specific Requirement For Course Requests page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Sort Order	Indicate the order in which you want requirements to display on the registration screens.
   Requirement Name	The name of the requirement. Click to access the requirements page. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Type	Indicates the type of requirement: Core Required, Multi-Course, or Single Course. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.
   Course Group	Indicates the course group. For more information, refer to the Requirements section.

6. Click Submit. 

Requirements

You must create requirement entries for each student course request. Requirement entries make up the body of the request page, informing students which courses they must take and giving them selections from valid course groups. For more information about student course request pages, refer to the Student Course Request Pages section.
There are three types of requirement entries:

• Single Course Requirement: Students make single selections from a course group. For example, if all eleventh graders need to take one computer course next year, create a Computer course group that includes all of the computer courses. Students select one of the courses from the list to fulfill their Computer requirement.
• Multi-Course Requirement: Students make multiple selections from a course group. For example, if all eleventh graders need to take two business courses next year, create a Business course group that includes all business courses. Students select two or more of the courses from the list to fulfill their Business requirement.
• Core Requirement: Students view a set of requests that are predefined, such as a core set of courses for all ninth graders. There are no options from which students can make selections.

Enter a Single Course Requirement in PowerScheduler

A single course requirement appears on the request page as a menu. Students choose a single course from the list (course group) you create.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu.
3. Click the grade level for which you want to enter a single course requirement.
4. On the [grade level] Request Screen Setup Future page, click New Single Course Requirement. 

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

   Field	Description
   Name of this requirement	Enter a name for the requirement, such as Ninth Grade Math.
   Description/Instructions	Enter a description or instructions for students to read on the screen so they understand exactly what they need to do to meet this requirement. For example: You are required to enroll in one Math course. Use the menu to make your selection from the list of available courses.
   List of courses to present to the student in the menu	Use the menu to choose the course group you want students to make their selection from, such as Math 9.
   Must students select a course from the, or may they leave it blank?	Choose either Must select one or Can leave blank.
   Message to display if students are required to select a course, but they leave it blank instead	If you chose Must select one in the previous field, you can enter an alert message students will receive if they do not select one of the courses in the group. For example, enter: You forgot to select one Math course. If you do not enter a specific message for this requirement, the system displays a generic message: You did not select a course for this requirement: [requirement name].
   Request type	Use the menu to choose the type of request: Elective: Not a requirement Alternate: Used if an elective request is not met. If you select Alternate, the system uses this request if it cannot schedule the student in a requested elective. Required: Required course for this grade level An alternate request will never replace a required request.
   Number of requests to generate	Use the menu to choose the number of requests that should be generated when this requirement is selected. For example, if Math is a year-long course but sections operate on semesters, choose 2 for two requests. Semester electives may only need one request.
   Item sort order	Enter a number between 0 and 100 that indicates the order in which you want this requirement to appear on the request page you are creating.

6. Click Submit. 

Enter a Multi-Course Requirement

A Multi-Course requirement appears on the request page as a menu. Students choose multiple courses from the list (course group) you create.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu.
3. Click the grade level for which you want to enter a single course requirement.
4. On the [grade level] Request Screen Setup Future page, click New Multi-Course Requirement.

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

   Field	Description
   Name of this requirement	Enter a name for the requirement, such as Ninth Grade Math.
   Description/Instructions	Enter a description or instructions for students to read on the screen so they understand exactly what they need to do to meet this requirement. For example: You are required to enroll in two Math courses. Use the menu to make your selection from the list of available courses.
   List of valid courses for this item	Use the menu to choose the course group you want students to make their selection from, such as Math 9.
   Number of courses student must select to meet this requirement	Enter the minimum and maximum number of courses students must select for this requirement. For example, enter 2 and 2 to require that no more and no less than two courses from the list are selected.
   Message to display if the number of courses selected is not correct	Enter the message you want to appear to students if they do not select the correct number of requirements. If this field is left blank, a generic message will display.
   Request type	Use the menu to choose the type of request: Elective: Not a requirement Alternate: Used if an elective request is not met. If you select Alternate, the system uses this request if it cannot schedule the student in a requested elective. Required: Required course for this grade level. An Alternate request will never replace a required request
   Number of requests to generate	Use the menu to choose the number of requests that should be generated when this requirement is selected. For example, if Math is a year-long course but sections operate on semesters, choose 2 for requests. Semester electives may only need one request.
   Item sort order	Enter a number between 0 and 100 that indicates the order in which you want this requirement to appear on the request page you are creating.

6. Click Submit. 

Enter a Core Requirement

A core requirement is a set of courses that members of an entire grade level must request. There is no selection for students to make; you make the selection now so that students view an unalterable list of these required courses on their request pages.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Click the grade level for which you want to enter a single course requirement.
4. On the [grade level] Request Screen Setup Future page, click New Core Requirement. 

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

   Field	Description
   Requirement Name	Enter a name for the requirement. For example, assume you are creating a requirement for ninth graders that consists of the core courses in which they must enroll. You could name the requirement Ninth Grade Core Required Courses.
   Description/Instructions	Enter a description or instructions. Since students will automatically receive the course requests you specify on this page, you could enter All freshmen must take the following courses:.
   List of valid courses for this item	Use the menu to choose a course group, such as Ninth Core Courses.
   Number of requests to generate per course	Use the menu to choose the number of requests that need to be generated for this requirement. For example, if these are semester-long courses, you would need to generate one request per course. In that case, choose 1.
   Item sort order	Enter a number between 0 and 100 that indicates the order in which you want this requirement to appear on the request page you are creating.

6. Click Submit. 

Preview the Registration Request Page

After you enter all of the requirements you want to include on the request page, you have an opportunity to review how it looks and verify its accuracy.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Click the grade level for which you created a request page. 

4. Enter any message you want to appear on the request page in the "Message to display on registration screens for students in this grade" field.
   The options under Enable student registration screen for this grade in should not be selected until the request pages are completely set up and you are ready for PowerScheduler to accept course requests.

5. Click Submit.
6. At the top of the [grade level] Request Screen Setup page, click Preview Student Registration Screen to review the actual output of the page. 
7. Click Close to return to the [grade level] Request Screen Setup Future page if you need to make corrections to any of the individual requirements.
8. Click Submit. 

Student Course Request Entry

Once you complete and activate student course request pages for each grade level in your school, students and parents or guardians can use the PowerSchool Student and Parent portal to enter requests. You can also enter students' course requests in PowerScheduler.

To enter student course requests one at a time, refer to either the Enter Requests in the Scheduling Area or Enter Student Requests by Course sections, depending on whether you are working with a student or a course. To enter requests for more than one student at a time, refer to the Mass Assign Student Course Requests section.

Course requests entered in PowerScheduler appear on the requesting student's Requests Modify Future and Requests View Future pages in PowerSchool. In addition, administrative staff members can use PowerSchool to enter or delete requests for one or more students. To edit requests, refer to the Edit Student Course Requests section.

After the initial requests are made in PowerSchool or in PowerScheduler, future course requests can be modified or deleted in PowerScheduler.

You may also want to manually schedule a student once his or her course requests are made. For more information, refer to the Manually Schedule Students section.

For alternate course requests, PowerScheduler prioritizes scheduling alternates in the following order: associated Alternate course for a request, individual course requests with the Alternate checkbox selected, and global course substitutions made on the Course Information page. Any request with an Alternate Group Code of "E" (the only acceptable group code) can be replaced with any requests selected as "Alternate" according to PowerScheduler's priority for scheduling alternates.

Activate the Student Request Forms

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Requesting, choose Screen Setup from the PowerScheduler menu.

3. Click the name of a grade level at your school.

   The selected grade level is the grade level for the future year. For example, to activate the course request page for students who will be in 10th grade next year, select Grade 10.

4. Under Enable student registration screen for this grade in, select PowerSchool Student and Parent Portal.

5. Click Submit. 

Enter Requests in the Scheduling Area

In addition to the Requests Modify Future page in PowerSchool, you can use PowerScheduler to enter student course requests for a future school year. That school year is determined by the setting on the Set Schedule Year page. For more information about setting the schedule year, refer to Set the Schedule Year.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. Click the name of the student you want to work with from the students menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   
   1. • Choose Requests.
      • Click the Requests tab.

   The Requests page displays the percentage scheduled calculations for the student:

   • • % Scheduled - Percentage of requests successfully filledCalculated by rounding ((enrolledSlots * 100) / timeSlots)
     • % Core Scheduled - Percentage of requests for core classes successfully filledCalculated by rounding ((coreSlots * 100) / coreTimeSlots)
     • % Primary Requests Satisfied - Percentage of primary requests (non-alternate requests) that were successfully filledCalculated by rounding ((primeReqSatisfied * 100) / totalRequests)
     • % Total Requests Satisfied - Percentage of total requests including alternate requests that were filledCalculated by rounding ((totalReqSatisfied * 100) / totalRequests)

   
   

   TimeSlots calculated by
   number_of_terms * number_of_days * number_of_periods
   -- find timeSlots by buildId
   select sterms * dpcycle * ppday as timeSlots
   from scheduleBuilds
   where buildId = <scheduleBuilds.buildId>;

   CoreTimeSlots calculated by
   number_of_terms * number_of_days * number_of_core_periods
   -- find coreTimeslots by buildId
   select sterms * dpcycle * (select count(*) from schedulePeriods where buildId = <scheduleBuilds.buildId> and corePeriod = 1) as coreTimeSlots
   from scheduleBuilds
   where buildId = <scheduleBuilds.buildId>;

   TotalRequests calculated by
   -- find totalRequests by studentId and yearId, excluding any global alternate course
   select count(*) totalRequests
   from scheduleRequests
   where studentId = <students.id>
   and yearid = <4-digit-yearid>
   and globalAlternateCourse = 0;

   Percentage calculated by
   -- get student requests statistics by studentId and buildId
   select totalRequests, enrolledSlots, coreSlots, primeReqSatisfied, totalReqSatisfied
   from studentSchedulingResults
   where buildId = <scheduleBuilds.buildId>
   and studentId = <students.id>;

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

6. Click New Request. 
7. Click Associate. 
8. Select the name of the course. Press and hold COMMAND (Mac) or CONTROL (Windows) to make multiple selections.
9. Click Submit. 
10. Click Submit.

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

    Field	Description
    Number	The number of the requested course appears.
    Course Name	The name of the requested course appears.
    Note	Additional Prerequisite Note information about the request.
    Alt	Select the checkbox to indicate whether this is an alternate course request.
    Code	If this course request cannot be met, but can be replaced with any course request selected as "Alternate," enter E in this field.
    Priority	If you selected the Alt checkbox, enter a priority number so the system will know which alternate to load first when a student does not receive the elective he or she wants.
    Section Type	Choose the course's section type, if applicable,. For example, a student may request a bilingual section of a course.
    Alternate 1	Click Associate to select the name of the first alternate for this course.

12. Click Submit. 

Enter Student Requests by Course

If you are working with a course and want to enter student requests for that course, use the Requests function for the course.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Courses from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Click the name of the course you want to work with from the courses menu.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Choose Requests.
   • Click the Requests tab.

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

5. Click New. 

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

   Field	Description
   Student	Click Associate to select the student for which you are making this request.
   Section Type	Choose the course's section type, if applicable,. For example, a student may request a bilingual section of a course.
   Alternate	Select the checkbox to indicate whether this is an alternate course request.
   Alternate Group Code	If this course request cannot be met, but can be replaced with any course request selected as "Alternate," enter E in this field.
   Alternate Priority	This field is reserved for future functionality.
   Alternate Course 1	Click Associate to select the name of an alternate course for this request.
   Alternate Course 2	Click Associate to select the name of an alternate course for this request.

7. Click Submit. 

Manually Schedule Students

Use the student's Request page to quickly and efficiently schedule a student.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. Click the name of the student you want to work with from the students menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   
   1. • Choose Requests.
      • Click the Requests tab.

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

6. Click Manually Schedule Student. 
7. Select the checkbox next to the course, term, and expression in which you want to enroll the student. Deselect the checkbox next to the course, term, and expression from which you want to drop the student.
   The student's currently scheduled classes appear in gray, available classes appear in green, and full classes appear in red. If an expression is gray and has a selected checkbox, the student is in the class. An asterisk ( * ) notation means that the class is full, regardless of color. If enrolling the student in a full class, enter the password to override the maximum enrollment in the field at the bottom of the page.
8. Click Submit. 
   To refresh the page to display the last saved selections, click Reset.
9. Click Continue. 

Edit Student Course Requests

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. Click the name of the student you want to work with from the students menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   
   1. • Choose Requests.
      • Click the Requests tab.

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

6. Use the following table to edit information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Number	The number of the requested course appears.
   Course Name	The name of the requested course appears.
   Note	Additional information about the request.
   Alt	Select the checkbox to indicate whether this is an alternate course request.
   Code	If this course request cannot be met, but can be replaced with any course request selected as "Alternate," enter E in this field.
   Priority	If you selected the Alt checkbox, enter a priority number so the system will know which alternate to load first when a student does not receive the elective he or she wants.
   Section Type	Choose the course's section type, if applicable,. For example, a student may request a bilingual section of a course.
   Alternate 1	Click Associate to select the name of the first alternate for this course.

7. Click Submit. 

Delete Student Course Requests

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. Click the name of the student you want to work with from the students menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   
   1. • Choose Requests.
      • Click the Requests tab.

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

6. Use the following table to edit information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   [Delete All]	Select the checkbox in the header row to delete all course requests.
   [Delete]	Select the checkbox in the row of each course request you want to delete.

7. Click Delete Selected. 

Reference the Course Catalog

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

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. Click the name of the student you want to work with from the student menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   
   1. • Choose Requests.
      • Click the Requests tab.
6. Click Course Catalog. 
7. Enter search criteria in the Search field.
8. To filter by columns:
   
   1. Click +.
   2. From the first menu, choose one of the following:
      • Course Name
      • Course Number
      • Description
   3. Enter search criteria in the search field.
      Use a comma-separated list for multiple values.
   4. Click Apply. The page refreshes and display filtered results.
9. To add another filter, click + and repeat steps a through d.
   The + appears shaded if all filters have been added.
10. To delete a filter, click - next the filter.
11. Click Apply. The page refreshes and display filtered results.
    To remove all filter selections, click Clear.

12. Use the following table to view search results:

    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.
    Course Number	The course number.
    Description	The course description.
    [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.

13. Click Close when done.

Mass Assign Student Course Requests

It is possible that an entire grade level or group of students will need to request the same course or courses. If this is the case, you have the option of mass assigning course requests to these students.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. On the Selected Students page, click Functions. 
5. Click Mass Add Requests. 

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

   Field	Description
   Course Number	Click Associate to select the number of the course you want to assign to the group of students you selected.
   Section Type	If applicable, choose the course's section type. For example, these students may request a bilingual section of a course.
   Request Type	Choose the type of request: Required Elective Alternate
   Priority	If you selected Alternate in the Request Type field, enter a priority for the request. The lower the number, the higher the priority and the more likely these students will be scheduled into this alternate class.

7. Click Submit. 

Mass Delete Student Course Requests

After student course requests have been entered, you may find that due to a data entry error, an entire group of students was assigned to the wrong course. Alternatively, perhaps there is not enough money in the budget to hold a particular course next year. In these and other similar situations, you have the option of mass deleting student course requests.

1. Navigate to the PowerScheduler page.
2. Under Resources, choose Students from the PowerScheduler menu. 
3. Select students for scheduling. 
4. On the Selected Students page, click Functions. 
5. Click Mass Delete Requests. 

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

   Field	Description
   Course Number	Click Associate to select the number of the course you want to delete from the group of students you selected.
   Section Type	If appropriate, choose the Section Type. This ensures that only requests of the selected course that have this section type will be deleted.
   Alternate	Select the checkbox to delete only requests for this course that are selected as Alternate.
   What to Delete	Choose whether you want to apply the changes to the first occurrence or all occurrences of students' course requests. Deleting only the first occurrence of a request is useful for removing duplicate student course requests.

7. Click Submit.