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When a new student needs a schedule at an elementary school, users can select a Team in the Walk-In Scheduler tool and all of the courses that the student would need to be assigned to would populate. This eliminates the need to search for each individual course to add to the student’s schedule.
Courses assigned to an Elementary School Student
Because we only take attendance on elementary school students once a day, a course called Elementary Attendance is placed on all of the student schedules. This course encompasses their whole attendance day. H1 - H7 (the H stand for hour).
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The rest of the periods are not marked for attendance. Instead, the remaining periods are for aligned to match each subject area that an elementary school student could receive instruction in.
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If the student does not require instruction for that particular subject, we use blocker courses to fill in that period so that the students all have a full schedule. For instance, students in grades KDG through 3rd grade are not eligible to take the Instrumental Music or Chorus courses. Therefore, we use a blocker course for all of those students.
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Since all schools and teachers do things differently, we do not track period by period what is being taught.