Post-Baccalaureate Programs

Courses offered in the preceding year will “roll over” keeping prior meet times, locations, instructor information, and section notes. Major code restrictions do not roll over. It is important to review SIS or Testudo and request that any course not being offered in the upcoming semester be deleted. Academic units may utilize the online scheduling system to update their course offerings for the upcoming semester/term. If they are unable to do so or it is past the deadline to complete online course scheduling, email scheduling requests to pp-sched@umd.edu. 

All newly scheduled courses and courses with changes must include ALL the following information:

1. Term and Year: Fall 2025 (2508)
2. Program Name
3. Center Code 
4. Course Delivery Method: F (Face-to-Face); O (Online); B (Blended). 
5. Course Prefix and Number: (i.e. BSCI105)
6. Section Number 
7. Number of seats being offered
8. Meeting days and time: (see Contact Hours and Course Delivery Method Definitions, below)
   1. Online Asynchronous: List as TBA.
   2. Online Synchronous: List specific meeting days and hours.
   3. Blended: List face-to-face element(s) as lecture, discussion, or lab component. List online component as an additional lecture/discussion/lab; asynchronous list as TBA; synchronous list specific meeting days and hours.
9. Classroom or building location: (Scheduling Office confirms classroom availability)
   1. Locations on UMD Campus: Locations must be added for face-to-face meetings. If you have room priority, those rooms can be scheduled now. If you need a General-Purpose Classroom (GPC) assigned, leave the location field blank. Course and Classroom Scheduling Services will assign classrooms as usual when departmental access to scheduling closes. To request a specific room, location, or equipment, enter a non-print note in the Course Note (CN) screen. Justification is required when requesting a specific room or location. Please provide a short justification or a brief explanation in the non-print note.
      1. Requesting a TERP classroom. Start the note with the word “TERP” and indicate the type (Tiered, 6Round, Eye2Eye, or Media Share) followed with a brief justification.  
      2. Requesting a computer lab (ATL 1410 or PLS 1129).
      3. A room with moveable versus fixed seating (for group activities).
      4. Instructor’s special accommodation request (low mobility, limited vision, allergies to chalk, etc.).
   2. Locations off-site: Programs are responsible for arranging for classrooms at off-site locations. Location details should be provided to add as a meeting location (if building location is in the UMCP inventory, i.e. USG rooms) or so that the details can be added to the section note.
   3. Online: list as Web for Building and Online for Room.
10. Instructor name and UID: (if instructor has not been selected, list as STAFF)
11. SIS and ELMS Coding: Provide name and UID of any other individual who needs SIS and/or ELMS access, with appropriate code information. For all non-teaching staff who require ELMS access: The academic unit is responsible for completing the non-paid PHR appointment, as necessary. 
12. Evaluation for each person listed in SIS/ELMS: Y = Yes Evaluation; N = No Evaluation.
13. Indicate if the course should NOT be published to the Schedule of Classes.

Each role listed in SIS/ELMS must also contain an evaluation code: Y = Yes Evaluation, N = No Evaluation. With the exception of the Instructor of Record, course roles must be requested each semester as this information does not roll over.

Note: ELMS-Canvas spaces are created for the Instructor of Record listed in SIS. When this role is updated in SIS to a new faculty/staff member a new ELMS-Canvas space is created. The content from the original course space (i.e., announcements, assignments, pages, files, grades, students, etc.) will not automatically move to the new course space.

If the Instructor of Record is changed after the semester has begun and needs this historic content, the new instructor should email itsupport@umd.edu (Attention: ELMS-Canvas Staff) and request the content be migrated. Whenever possible the original instructor should provide approval to migrate the content to the new instructor. If the previous instructor is no longer with the institution, a note to this effect from leadership in the department should be included in the request to IT Support. 

Fall 2025 (2508) ELMS Space release: March 26, 2025

1. Combining: For instructors teaching more than one course or section that wish to merge the ELMS spaces, visit: How to Combine Sections and Courses in ELMS
   1. Note: The instructor must be an instructor in all merged courses/sections for this action to work. It can take up to an hour for the enrollments associated with the unique course/sections to appear in the new, combined space.
   2. Links to the unique course/section spaces will cease to be visible to the members once the new space has been created by the merging activity.
2. Splitting: For instructors teaching more than one section of a course whose ELMS spaces were combined by default and wish to create individual ELMS spaces for each section, visit: Create ELMS Single Section Course Space
   1. Note: Only one single-section course space can be created at a time. The instructor/requester will have immediate access to the course space. Student enrollment(s) will be imported from UMEG within two hours.

The University of Maryland follows the Maryland Higher Education Commission's (MHEC) policies on "contact hours," a shorthand term referring to the amount of time required in various forms of education to earn credit. Credit-bearing courses are divided into three types based on MHEC contact hour requirements: lectures, laboratories, and internships (Seminars and discussions are classed as "lecture" in the MHEC scheme.) Online courses must be comparable. Contact hour requirements apply to both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Face-to-face courses with an online component must have a scheduled online lecture, discussion or lab component,  or a section note that clarifies that the online component will account for the remainder of the contact hours not accommodated in class. Contact hours will be confirmed by EXST. Departments needing further recalculations will be contacted. For additional information see Course Policies and Practices. 

One credit is equal to:

• 12.5 - 15 hours of actual class time 
• 30 hours of supervised laboratory or studio time 
• 45 hours of instructional situations such as practica, internships, and cooperative education placements

Once a course is scheduled and registration begins, any changes to meeting times or course location must be sent to EXST via email to pp-sched@umd.edu. In the case of meeting times, EXST informs registered students of such a change. Prior to the start of a given semester, EXST directs all registered students to review Testudo for room/building location.

Should an academic unit request a change in delivery format (face-to-face, online, blended) after registration has begun, this is treated as an entirely new request for the course/section. EXST will create a new section, cancel the former section drop all registered students, and send an email informing them of the delivery format change and drop. Students will be directed to register for the new section should they so choose.

Once a semester begins, an instructor may not modify the meeting time or change the course location without first discussing such a request with both the academic unit and EXST. An instructor may not alter the delivery format of any course. There are serious academic and financial implications for such actions. At all times, Testudo and SIS must accurately reflect all aspects of the scheduled course/section. It is the academic unit’s responsibility to inform an instructor of the above.