We are a small high school of 300 students and wondered if anyone else at a school with similar enrollment has been successful in using the Master Scheduling tool. Please email me at [Email Removed] if you can help. Thank you.

I am interested in this also. Could we please keep this discussion public? Thank you. Cindy Carey Database Manager McLean School of MD [Email Removed]> www.mcleanschool.org

Our Upper School is roughly the same size, and we haven't been able to successfully using the Auto Master Scheduling Tool. I would be very interested in hearing if any school has. Does anyone use online course requests via NetClassroom?

We are a high school of 560 student grades 9 - 12. the first year we had EE we scheduled in our previous database and imported the schedules. The last 2 years we have attempted to use the tool and have been unsuccessful. We ended up scheduling nearly all students by hand. We are dropping EE and moving to a different SIS that can do the job properly. I can be emailed directly at [Email Removed]

We have about 1100 students and we used the online course requests through Net Classroom and it was great! We usually have made our master schedule by hand and then let the program schedule the kids and that worked great -- no problems. Last year we tried the master in EE and had some problems. Hopefully it will be resolved this year, but I would say our master turned out okay -- it had some glitches and some things we had to move around and manipulate by hand but now that we've been using it all Fall, it is fine. I would say it was a "headache" but not "horrible" for us.

We have been successfully using both the EA and more recently the EE master scheduling module for both our middle (210 students)and upper schools(335 students). We found that to make it work you have to do the difficult and time-comsiming preliminary work of strickly defining your cycles, periods and time tables, courses, number of sections, class size, teacher and room resources, etc. We implemented a totally new schedule last year with rotating periods and an 8-day cycle and after the first run of enrolling students we had over 93% of student schedules filled. Larry Fullerton Landon School