After flex periods have been set using the flex schedule calendar in jmc Office, you are ready to create course offerings and assign students for those periods. jmc empowers teachers to choose a flex period, name an offering, list a room number and set a capacity for each offering to define a flex offering that meets their needs and the needs of their students.
To create an offering for the flex scheduler from jmc Teacher, head to Edit > Flex Schedules.
Step One: Select a scheduled flex period from the "Flex Times" box to add an offering for a specific flex period.
Step Two: Click the "Add Offering" link to begin entering a new offering to the flex schedule, or select an existing flex time offering in the "My Offerings" box and click the "Edit Offering" link to edit the offering.
Step Three: Enter a name for the offering in the "Name" field to help students distinguish this offering from offerings from other teachers.
Helpful Tip: Creating an MTSS flex offering? Name the offering by the skill you are teaching during the flex period. For example "Research Paper Help", or "Geometry", or "Civil War Review".
Step Four: Select a room from the "Room" drop-down list to inform students where the flex time offering will meet.
Step Five: Enter a number in the "Capacity" field to limit the number of students that can register themselves to the offering.
Helpful Tip: Place a checkmark in the "Offering Private to Selected Students" checkbox to exclude an offering from the list of available offerings in jmd Student.
Fun Fact: Only selected students will be able to see private offerings making it a viable resource for special education interventions.
Step Six: Select a radio button to narrow the displayed list of students in the "Available Students" box.
Grades: enter a grade level range in the "From Grade" and "To Grade" drop-down lists
Courses: select one of your courses using the "Courses" drop-down list
Advisees: view the list of your advisees
Rosters: select from a saved roster of students created using the "Student Rosters" link
Step Seven: Select a student's name from the "Available Students" box to add them to the "Selected Students" box.
Fun Fact: Selected students will appear on other teachers' "Available Students" lists as "SELECTED BY" you. For example: "McElmury, John (SELECTED BY: Mrs. Teacher - Flex Offering Name)" to help identify the urgency of the request.
Step Eight (optional): Place a checkmark next to a student under the "Lock" column in the "Selected Students" box to prevent students from selecting a different offering.
A few fun facts:
When a student is already locked into another teacher's offering, the student will appear on the "Available Students" list as locked by that teacher. For example: "McElmury, John (LOCKED BY: Mrs. Teacher - Flex Offering Name)" to help identify the urgency of the request.
Locked students can be overridden if deemed necessary by another teacher or the office.
Step Nine: Click the "Save" button to add the offering and student roster to the "My Offerings" list, or click the "Close" button to discard your new offering.
Helpful Tip: To delete a selected offering in the "My Offerings" box click the "Delete Offering" link.
Step Ten: Click the "Print" button to print a copy of the currently selected offering's roster.