She went over the information contained in the binder. She explained that the departments are allowed to decide the number of seats in each course. They are allowed to indicate desired building partitions and then Schedule 25 electronically tries to place the courses based on the given building partitions. Schedule 25 tries to place the course using the departments 1 st choice, then 2 nd , and then 3 rd . Tara ends up with a good number that she has to manually place because of sections that could find no room and sections that are poorly placed by Schedule 25.
Many courses end up in rooms larger than their seat limit, resulting in lost seat space.
Tara discussed the concerns over low-enrolled courses. They are costly both in space and in dollars. Last semester there were 70 sections that were low-enrolled and carried. Prime time slots - how it is decided and what method is used for deciding. Smaller classrooms were suggested as remedy for low enrolled classes, but Tara explained that knowing which classes would be low-enrolled and scheduling them in those rooms is almost impossible.