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Online Course Requests

Last post 11-05-2008 1:56 PM by Mary Angela Lewis. 1 replies.
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  • 11-04-2008 12:10 PM

    • Norm Dunkin
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    Online Course Requests

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    I have been working with OCR's on my test system so that we can use this feature in the Spring.  It seems to be pretty straight forward.  I just have a couple of questions for those of you who have done this before.

     1. We offer Weight Training as a one semester class either in the Fall or the Spring.  Football players want to take it in the Fall and Baseball in the Spring.  There is no way for a student to specify which term in NetClassroom so my question is, how do you handle a one semester class?  I was thinking of just having a student who is in this situation either email me or come by my office.  What do you do about this?

    2. I have been playing with Reports and can see what students have requested which classes.  My question is, how do we know what students have not even bothered to do their OCR, or do you care about that.  I guess that if they don't do it they just won't get enrolled in any classes. 

    If you know of any "gotchas" in any areas of OCR's, please let me know.

    Norm Dunkin
    Director of Information Services
    Landmark Christian School
    Fairburn, GA USA
    www.landmarkchristianschool.org

  • 11-05-2008 1:56 PM In reply to

    Re: Online Course Requests

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    Norm, 

    We used OCR last year for the 1st time.  It went fairly well but I would say that a limitation of the system is semester only courses.  Our seniors have the option of filling several bells with semester courses and our underclassmen can select semester courses to fill their elective bell.  OCR could not accommodate that part of our system.  I talked with Blackbaud about that and they entered it as a suggestion.  OCR did eliminate a good bit of manual entry of course requests for our staff.  The OCRs are automatically saved as requests in the scheduling module of BB so you can track partial/completed/blank requests there.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions that I could give our perspective on.

    Mary Angela Lewis

    Registrar

    Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy

    513-247-9944 ext. 337

    mary.lewis@chca-oh.org

     
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