Author: kurek2

It’s that time of year again, when your brain is in 4 terms at once…

Well well well, just when you thought things were calming down… we’re living in Fall (1272), reviewing Spring exams (1274), working on Summer call (1276) and about to begin NEXT Fall (1282)! Are you dizzy yet?  One aspect of curricular work that can be particularly complicated is class associations. But don’t worry- there’s a KB …

(Per)Mission (Im)Possible

Enrollment permission, should you choose to grant it, can be set up in two ways, and used as follows:  Student-specific permissions are the default and recommended option for most courses. These are frequently used when students need to override a requisite, or course capacity.  Generated permissions work best when instructor or department consent is required …

In our Accessibility Era: New GA Room Tables

After many years of service, our General Assignment (GA) classroom PDFs are retiring. Their replacements on this page are searchable, filterable, and accessible web tables that provide the same room capacity, feature, and seating information with a better user experience. We know some may miss the classic one-page PDFs, but we’re excited about this more …

Dude, Where’s My Download Button?

Now that almost all of the SIS pages have gone through a makeover, you may notice that a few things have shifted aesthetically. One in particular is the button to download the table displayed on a page. For example, on the E-class Roster page or Permissions, it is now on the upper left side of …

Subscribe to the Curricular Services Outlook Calendar

While we’re not on TikTok (couldn’t find rehearsal time for choreography), you can still like and subscribe!  In addition to the bi-annual Planning Calendars* available in Box, the Curricular Services team maintains an Outlook calendar that you can subscribe to. Future dates are added to this calendar each time a new Planning Calendar is released. …

Patience is a Virtue: Wait to Reactivate Cancelled Sections

If you mistakenly cancel a class, you must wait at least 5 minutes before reactivating it. Why, you might ask? The integrations between SIS and Course Search & Enroll are complex. It can take minutes, not seconds, for class status changes in SIS to be fully processed by CS&E. If you cancel then quickly reactivate …

Tip o’ the Mornin’: Cancel vs Delete now enforced in SIS

We’ve gone over the rainbow and found the pot of technical gold: SIS is now able to enforce when reps can cancel vs. delete a section! As of March 2026, if you attempt to cancel a section when you should delete it, SIS will prevent you from proceeding and will display an error message that …

No Topic, No Section. N-O to T-B-D

If you’re offering a topics course but haven’t finalized the topic title, do not schedule the section. Once a section is created and saved in SIS, its topic cannot be added or changed. If a section is created with the wrong topic, it must be canceled or deleted and then recreated with the correct one. …

Take Home Gold with your 25Live Searching Skills

Don’t just skate by and freeze yourself out of classrooms: keep your teammates safe by double-checking room assignment changes. Sync your twizzles by making the change in SIS and then verifying in 25Live. Ski, curl, and glide your way to our 25Live KB for how-to information straight from your coaches in Curricular Services.

Buy Local, Update Global (Notes)

We’ve made it through the Fall semester, survived the cold snap in January, and are no longer in danger of looping Groundhog Day. Just when it feels like things could be running on autopilot, now would be a good time to review something that may be on the back burner: Global Notes! Global Notes are …