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PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and requests

LynneM2 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:13:40 GMT

Courses have a "Load Priority" setting under preferences. It's my understanding that the lower numbers are loaded first - does this mean, students with that course as a request will be scheduled into the section first?

Students also have a "priority" setting on the preference screen, and the higher number is scheduled first.

Student Request also have a priority setting, each request can have a different priority - the higher the number the more likely that request will be scheduled.

What is the the process for reviewing and implementing these priorities?

Also, what if the priority setting is set to 0? What if some courses have a 0 and others have numbers?

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

DanM3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:00:22 GMT

I think the load process is first for grade level and then within grade level it looks for what courses to load first. I would never list 0 for anything, but similar to what Jeff has listed above, I would recommend 10 for those courses we want loaded first (e.g. Honors and AP) and we generally give electives the lowest load number.

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

LynneM2 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:17:22 GMT

Thank you for your responses. Now i wonder if you have any experience working with Visual Scheduler inside of PowerScheduler.

I am trying to understand some of the error messages on sections. Such as a red triangle (says serious to me) and message is :"Must match null total periods in a week" ???

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

JeffG9 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:56:02 GMT

My team works with over 70 districts and absolutely none of them use Visual Scheduler. 🙂 Sorry!

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

DanM3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:25:27 GMT

Same as Jeff, I tried using Visual Scheduler 8-9 years ago and found it cumbersome on a laptop and not as intuitive as I hoped. In general, PowerScheduler has not received the attention or updates like other parts of PowerSchool SIS. But it's not as outdated as PowerLunch :). Maybe if you have it set up with a large screen TV it might be helpful.

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

Kwc2007 — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:19:14 GMT

Were you able to get answers for the "must match null total periods in a week" error? We are getting the same error and can't get any further.

Re: PowerScheduler- Trying to understand Load Priorities as related to courses, students and request

TaraB9 — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:17:49 GMT

Any answer on this? We are having the same issue happening.