--- Forwarded Message from "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:08:45 -0700
>From: "Carol Reitan" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7262 Scheduling Classes in the Lang Lab
Our reservation policy allows an instructor, during the first 3 weeks of
the semester, to make 4 reservations (for any week during the semester)
at the same date and time. An instructor with 5 classes that meet at
different times could make a total of 20 reservations. This prevents
folks from monopolizing the room every Mon,Wed, Fri from 10-11, for
example, if they happen to have a bad room assignment (we still have
some old "temporary" WWII bungalows.) After the third week of the
semester, instructors may make as many reservations as they wish.
This gives everyone a chance to use the room and keeps people from
making reservations that they don't use. The big drawback is that
instructors can't distribute a comprehensive list of lab dates to their
students until the 4th week of the semester.
What happens in practice is that those who do use the room on a regular
basis give me a list of all their reservation requests. I confirm
immediately the first four on a given day and time (4 Mondays at 10 am,
for example). Then I mark the rest "tentative". After the 3rd week of
the semester, I send back a confirmation of all the tentative
reservations that were not taken by others during the first 3 weeks.
Before we instituted this system, more timid instructors would ask me
to phone those instructors who had monopolized a certain day and time
for the entire semester. That situation was unworkable as you can
imagine! Now everyone knows that they can have as many reservations as
they wish if they wait until the third week.
To read our reservation policy, go to:
http://www.ccsf.edu/langlab/classroom/policy.htm
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Carol H. Reitan
Language Center/Instructor of French
City College of San Francisco
R205, 50 Phelan Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
(415)452-5555
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--- Forwarded Message from Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Scheduling Classes in the Lang Lab
I am revisiting scheduling policies for our Language Lab's Classrooms.
At present each day is set aside for a specific language or languages.
e.g., Mondays - Spanish, Tuesday - Italian, French, etc. This less
than
perfect system was put in place because all available times were being
reserved in advance by a handful of instructors. I would very much
appreciate hearing about how other labs handle scheduling of classrooms
in
their labs. Joseph
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Stanford Language Center
tel - (650) 725-1615
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