This is the process that we use to determine which sections are for an actual group of students vs which ones are simply meant to not be in conflict. It takes a few days to complete this whole process, and is very manual.
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In Quest
Run this query to Excel: UW_RS_SCH_RSRV_CHK_FOR_CC_SB
Enter in term and term start date
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Make sure all the Program and Levels are the same in the Course Combinations. To do this you have right click on the top course combination, select open viewer, then click on each course combination individually. Also ensure that there are no requested section numbers entered in the course combinations at this stage, using the course combinations with notes MyView can easily find those ones and they can be cleaned up quickly there.
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The next step is going through the Course Combinations and sort it by the Student Count, ones with 1 you do not need to worry about and leave the “Default Academic Block Type” as is. You now must go through all the combinations with a student count higher than 1 and determine if it should stay as the student count number and be changed to “For Actual group of Students” or be changed to 1 and the “Default Academic Block Type” then should not be changed if it is staying as 1.
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Then in the Program window that opened up from before [Program: subject] find “Alternative Course Request-Course Characteristics”
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Only care about the “No Course Combinations” ones sort by that. Do not bother with courses that are fully forced (typically Engineering First year) this is the reason that you have a second timetabler window open. Open course from My View and then double click on Department -> Click on Academic Blocks -> Add new under it and under “ID” it should be called: “NCC Course” put block size as 1 and the Type is “to spread things out”. Under components attach the components of the course that need the academic block.
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