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Explore the features of elementary and middle school scheduling
Explore the features of elementary and middle school scheduling

Walk through the key components of successfully scheduling your elementary and middle school students.

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Written by Rachel Cox
Updated over 9 months ago

jmc has all the tools you need to efficiently and effectively craft schedules for your elementary and middle school students. What used to be a daunting task is now streamlined with jmc's scheduling tools. jmc Office has all the features you need to complete everything from building courses and sections, to scheduling balanced classes and verifying your schedules.

The elementary/middle school scheduling process begins with properly creating the courses and sections in an organizational method that sets you up for future scheduling success.

First, Print or view a course data list to see the courses that are already in your database. A best practice would be to list all courses for one grade level in chronological order, leaving space for adding new courses down the road.

Once you have identified the course numbers you would like to use, it's time to Create courses for elementary and middle school scheduling and to begin Editing course sections.

After courses and sections are created, you're ready to start adding students. jmc offers the ability to Bulk load students into courses by grade or advisor or Individually schedule elementary and middle school students who might have a unique schedule or set of courses.

The next step in the process is to place students into sections, or in other words, put students in seats! jmc provides a variety of ways to achieve your optimal classroom balance. You can Bulk schedule students into sections by grade or by selected student, Schedule students by section, or Copy Student Schedules from one student to another.

Finally, you can Verify your elementary and middle school schedule accuracy in just a few simple steps. Return to the "Course Data List" to find all the information you need to catch schedule errors or inconsistencies before the first day of school.

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