Post-Publish Processing of Courses

In most cases, courses are added, changed, or canceled in the SIS after the course schedule has been published in EMS. You can manually resynchronize and process these courses, or you can set options in EMS Academic Planning to automatically resynchronize these courses. After these course are automatically resynchronized, they can be automatically processed, or you can manually process them. Also, at the point that actual enrollment should determine room assignment (that is, can a room’s capacity handle the actual enrollment), you can process courses post-publish so that the courses are updated with the actual enrollment.

For automatic synchronizing to occur, the EMS Academic Planning Auto Sync Service must be installed and configured. Refer to the EMS Installation manual for details.

Manually Process Courses Post-publish

On the EMS Academic Planning menu bar, click Academic Planning > Courses > Manage Terms.

The Terms window opens.
Select the term which requires post-publish processing, and then click Sync.

The Course Updates window opens on the Course tab. This tab displays all the new courses, new course dates, changed courses, or canceled courses from the SIS. After processing, it also lists Room Capacity Violations, or courses in which the designated enrollment (estimated or actual) has surpassed the capacity of the room. The Course Updates window also has a Crosslist Validation tab. When EMS changes a cross-list parent to accommodate a new course, course date, or change that is being processed, the cross-listed courses are displayed on the Crosslist Validation tab. The Crosslist Validation tab is for informational purposes only so that you are kept abreast of parent changes.

If you are satisfied with the parent assignments, click Reviewed and the cross-listed courses are cleared from the tab. Otherwise, a Set Parent option is available.
Continue to one of the following:

The following procedures are listed in the order in which the post-publish processing should be carried out—cancellations, changes, new course dates, new courses, and then Room Capacity Violations.

Process a Canceled Course Post-Publish

Process a Changed Course Post-Publish

A course is listed as changed if there has been a change to the start or end date, a day of the week, the start or end time, and/or the room in the SIS.

Select the changed course, or Ctrl-click to select multiple courses.

The change history for the selected courses display on the History tab in the lower pane of the Course Updates window.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes. Two results are possible:
- If the changes were successfully completed for the reservations and bookings, then the courses are removed from the Course Updates window.
- If the changes resulted in a room conflict, Room Not Available display in the Notes column. Go to Step 4.
Click Conflicts to view the conflicts for the course.

The View Conflicts dialog opens. Each course and/or event that is causing the conflict is displayed.
If the conflict was caused by the switching of the rooms in the SIS, select the two course dates that are in conflict, and then click Swap to swap and process the rooms in the same step; otherwise, go to Step 6.
Do one of the following:
- Click Process again to process the course with conflicts.
  
  A Warning message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process with conflicts. Click Yes to complete the processing.
  
  You can use the Browser to manually search for these conflicts and resolve them at a later time.
- Click Assign to search for a new room. The Select a Room dialog opens. Go to Step 7.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria is displayed.
Select the room that is to be assigned to the new courses, and then click Finish.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes.

After processing is complete, the message closes and the changed courses are removed from the Course Updates window. If a Day of the Week change has been made, then processing course changes deletes and recreates the bookings that were previously made in EMS.

If bookings are deleted and recreated, then any manual changes that have been made to these bookings and/or any services that have been added to the booking are lost.

Process a New Course Date Post-Publish

Select the new course dates, or Ctrl-click to select multiple new course dates.
If rooms have already been assigned to the course dates in the SIS and you want to keep these rooms, then go to Step 5; otherwise, click Assign to open the Select A Room dialog, and then go to Step 3.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria displays.
Select the room that is to be assigned to the new courses, and then click Finish.

The Course Updates window opens with the new courses still selected.

Rooms can be processed without a room assignment. In this case, the course date is published in the TBD room that was specified when the term was published.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes. Two results are possible:
- If the changes were successfully completed for the reservations and bookings, then the courses are removed from the Course Updates window.
- If the changes resulted in a room conflict, Room Not Available is displayed in the Notes column. Go to Step 7.
Click Conflicts to view the conflicts for the course.

The View Conflicts dialog opens. Each course and/or event that is causing the conflict displays.
If the conflict was caused by the switching of the rooms in the SIS, select the two course dates that are in conflict, and then click Swap to swap and process the rooms in the same step; otherwise, go to Step 9.
Do one of the following:
- Click Process again to process the course with conflicts.
  
  A Warning message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process with conflicts. Click Yes to close the message and complete the processing.
  
  If needed, at a later date, you can use the Browser to manually search for these conflicts and resolve them.
- Click Assign to search for a new room.
  
  The Select a Room dialog opens. Go to Step 10.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria displays.
Select the room that is to be assigned to the new courses, and then click Finish.

The Course Updates window opens with the new courses still selected.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes.

After processing is complete, the message closes and the changed courses are removed from the Course Updates window. If a Day of the Week change has been made, then processing course changes deletes and recreates the bookings that were previously made in EMS.

If bookings are deleted and recreated, then any manual changes that have been made to these bookings and/or any services that have been added to the booking are lost.

Process a New Course Post-Publish

Select the new course, or Ctrl-click to select multiple new courses.
Do one of the following:
- If rooms have already been assigned to the courses in the SIS and you want to keep these rooms, then go to Step 6.
- If a room has already been assigned to the course (the first course) in the SIS, but it is meant to share a room with another course (the second course), then click Share to open the Course Selector dialog, and then go to Step 5.
- If a room has not been assigned to the course in the SIS, and you want to search for a room, then click Assign to open the Select A Room dialog and then go to Step 3.
  
  Rooms can be processed without a room assignment. In this case, the course date is published in the TBD room that was specified when the term was published.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria is displayed.
Select the room that is to be assigned to the new course, and then click Finish.

The Course Updates window opens with the new course still selected.
If the course is not meant to share a room with another course, go to Step 6. Otherwise, if the course is meant to share a room with another course, then do the following:
- Click Share to open the Course Selector dialog.
- Enter the appropriate search criteria (CRN, Course Title, Subject and/or Instructor) to search for the second course.
- Select the second course, and then click OK.
  
  The Course Updates window opens.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes.

The new courses are removed from the Course Updates window.

Process a Room Capacity Violation Post-Publish

If the enrollment for a class violates the minimum or maximum capacity for its assigned room, then the course is displayed on the Course Updates window with a change status of Room Capacity Violation.

Select the course, or Ctrl-click to select multiple courses.
To assign the course to a new room, click Assign to open the Select a Room dialog, then go to Step 3. To leave the course in the same room, go Step 5.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria displays.
Select the room to be assigned to the new course, and then click Finish.

The Course Updates window opens with the new course selected.
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course dates.
Click Yes.

The new courses are removed from the Course Updates window.

If you did not assign a new room to the course, then click Process to acknowledge the room violation. The course remains in its same room.

Automatically Process Courses Post-Publish

On the EMS Academic Planning menu bar, click Academic Planning > Courses > Manage Terms.

The Terms window opens.
Select the term which requires post-publish processing, and then click Edit.

The Term dialog opens on the Term tab.
Open the Auto Sync Settings tab.

Specify your auto sync settings.

Setting	Description
Automatically Sync Courses	Select this option to automatically synchronize courses in your SIS. To automatically synchronize courses, a user who can carry out this function must be created, and this user must be specified for the Auto Sync User EMS (Campus) system parameter.
Automatically Process Course Updates	Select this option if EMS is to automatically process new courses, changes, and cancellations if possible. Leave the option blank to manually process new courses, changes and cancellations from the EMS Dashboard. (See To manually process courses post-publish.) If this option is selected, and EMS cannot automatically process new courses, course dates and/or changes because of a conflict (for example, a room is not available), then you must manually process these courses. You must open the Course Updates tab on the EMS Dashboard, and then open the Courses sub-tab to view the courses in conflict that you must manually process. The Courses sub-tab is identical to the Course Updates window. See EMS Dashboard for information about working with tabs on the Dashboard window. In addition to this setting, three Campus system parameters determine the specific types of updates that you are auto-processing.
Auto Sync Only Once Per Day	If you do not select this option, then EMS automatically synchronizes the courses in your SIS according to the settings for the EMS Academic Planning Auto Sync service.
Last Date of Auto Sync	Required value. Enabled after Automatically Synch Courses is selected. Select the last date on which synchronization is to be automatically carried out by EMS for this term, which typically corresponds to the last date of the term.

Click OK.

Process Courses Post-Publish for Enrollment

Typically, you publish your term in EMS prior to registration beginning. As a result, estimated enrollment is the most relevant value for searching for rooms with appropriate capacities. Closer to the start of the term, however, actual enrollment might become more relevant and you might need to change the setting so that EMS uses this value when searching for new rooms in the Navigator wizards and Course Updates window.

On the EMS Academic Planning menu bar, click Academic Planning > Courses > Manage Terms.

The Terms window opens.
Select the term which requires post-publish processing, and then click Edit.

The Term dialog opens on the Term tab.
In Post Publish Enrollment, select Actual, and then click OK.
Click Sync.

A Synchronizing progress dialog opens. After the synchronization is complete, the Course Updates window opens. If the actual enrollment for a class violates the minimum or maximum capacity for its assigned room, then the course is displayed on the window with a Change Status of Room Capacity Violation.
To assign the course to a new room, click Assign. Otherwise, go to Step 8.

The Select A Room dialog opens.
Specify your search criteria, and then click Next.

A list of rooms that meets your search criteria displays. The list includes any configured TBD rooms.
Select the room that is to be assigned to the new courses, and then click Finish
Click Process.

A message opens asking you if you are sure that you want to process the selected course date.
Click Yes.

The courses are removed from the Course Updates window.

If you didn't assign a new room to the course, then clicking Process acknowledges the room violation. The course remains in its same room.