Assessment of class-hour allocations to departments who make use of university classrooms in combination with these scheduling regulations should ensure equitable distribution of university classroom space for a given fall or spring session. Additionally, effective classroom scheduling benefits departments in their access to place sections in university classrooms as well as students’ registration efforts through a spread of course offerings during the instructional day. University classrooms not only support the credit-bearing course offerings for a given term but also supplemental instructional activities. Therefore, it is crucial that classroom flexibility exist after initial scheduling to support special event assignment throughout the daytime and evening hours.

• All instruction scheduled on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. through 6:20 p.m. for which university classroom space is requested will be charged against the departmental allocation. Departments that make little or no use of university classrooms are not included in the departmental class-hour allocations. Currently allocations are not assessed in summer sessions.
• Each department is restricted to scheduling no more than its class-period allocation at any one hour in university rooms.
• Once the allocation has been met for a given time slot, a department will not be allowed to schedule additional classes at those hours in university classrooms. An alternate time slot offering a lower allocation offering would have to be selected for any additional course additions.
• Currently, instruction scheduled during the evening (after 6:30 p.m.) or Saturday will not be counted against the allocation. However, if usage of evening hours increases, it may be necessary monitor evening hours in the future.
• To measure past departmental room use and to calculate allocations, all cross-referenced courses are applied to the contact hours of the designated administrative home. Coexisting courses will be charged once within the course grouping.
• Each department is responsible for calculating its own departmental allocation and adhering to scheduling policies. Course offerings will be checked for adherence to the allocation and regulations. Course offerings that do not comply will be returned to the department with instructions for adjustment. Assignment of the classrooms to the department will be delayed until the copy is returned appropriately altered.

Allocations are figured based on hourly blocks of time beginning on the half hour. Most Tuesday/Thursday and Monday/Wednesday split meeting patterns begin on the hour. Because of this, calculation of allocations used during these times are higher because they eliminate course blocks staring on the half hour. 

The following table demonstrates how split-period instruction is charged against the departmental class-hour allocation in Tuesday/Thursday or approved Monday/Wednesday split meeting patterns.

The following table shows how classes are counted against an allocation of nine class periods for the fictional department of TEST.

• Only administrative home courses will be counted towards the department's allocations.

Since the entire allocation of nine has been used at 11:30 a.m. in this example, the TEST department would not be allowed to schedule additional classes at the 11:30 a.m. hour in university classrooms. Rather an alternate class time where lower allocation usage occurs should be selected for any additional courses. Furthermore, the TEST department will also be required to reduce their allocation at the 11:30 a.m. slot by shifting a course or two into a lower utilized class time slot.