Transit has a handy feature that lets you know how many students your report will contain based on the selection criteria you have entered before you launch your report to run. On the screen where you enter selection criteria, click on the button ‘Find Number Selected’. Transit will calculate how many students will appear on the report if it were run with the criteria you have entered, and display that number in the box to the right of the ‘Find’ button. If that number is not in the range you expect, take a look at the selection criteria you have entered, to see what may need to be changed. You can continue changing your criteria and clicking ‘Find Number Selected’ until you are happy with the value returned.
Have you ever wondered how those 4-digit numbers that correspond to Blinn terms are assigned? There is actually a logical scheme used to create those numbers. Let’s take the term code 2073 as an example. The first digit designates the century and the second and third digit designates the calendar year. So in our example, ‘207’ translates to 2007. If our example were 1983, that would translate to 1998. The fourth digit designates a specific semester or quarter during the academic year, with academic years running September through August. Blinn semesters are numbered as:
1=Spring
3=Summer I
5=Summer II
6=Fall
Blinn quarters (used by Workforce Education and the TEACH program) are numbered as:
2=Quarter 3 (March-May)
4=Quarter 4 (June-August)
7=Quarter 1 (September-November)
8=Quarter 2 (December-February)
So in our example, term code of 2073 translates to Summer I 2007 of the academic year 2006-2007. The term code of 2077 translates to Quarter 1 2007 of the academic year 2007-2008.
With the recent innovations in course scheduling at Blinn, namely the minimesters offered in December 2006 and May 2007, and 8-week classes to be offered in certain Math, Philosophy, and English courses on the Bryan campus this coming Fall term, we have assigned additional notation to courses to distinguish the multiple schedules within the usual 4-digit Blinn term code.
The additional notation is called a Session, and there can be multiple Sessions within a single term. Each Session has its own start date, end date, census date (day of record), and registration dates.
When courses for a term are created in Insight, they now must have a 2-character Session code assigned to them.
The Session codes in use currently include:
When viewing Class Openings in BORIS, students will find the classes available for these multiple schedules by selecting on the session options from the drop-down Session selection box, or by choosing “All Sessions” for a selected term.
When running CDD reports that require a Session code, use ‘*’ to select all Sessions for a selected term, or select a specific Session by using the 2-character code for that Session.
May minimesters and Summer 10-week sessions are both Sessions in the Summer I term and December minimesters are Sessions in the Spring term.
The August and October 8-week sessions are part of the Fall term, although the enrollment reporting for the October 8-week session will be part of the spring report to the Coordinating Board.