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Overview
Faculty Workload changes quickly – during the scheduling cycle, instructors can be assigned new sections and removed from other sections, multiple instructors can be assigned to the same section, expected workload can change, and non-teaching activities (Releases) can be assigned.
In all of these cases, Coursedog Faculty Workload Management updates in real time.
However, there may be cases where Workload Calculations are edited (likely before the start of a new term if policies have been changed).
When this happens, you must trigger a recalculating of Faculty Workload to ensure that the new Workload Calculations have been applied.
How It Works
Overview
As noted above, no manual recalculation is required if a Section is edited, an Instructor is added or removed from a Section, or a Release is created.
This action is only required when Workload Calculations have been edited, and you would like those edits to apply to the Workload values in your Instructor Profile and Section Dashboard.
Example
Overview
The Spring 2024 Term has ended, and some new workload guidelines will be put in place for the Fall 2024 term.
Some of your Workload Calculations had to be edited to match those new guidelines.
This means that you want to edit your Workload Calculations and apply those new rules to Fall 2024 but not Spring 2024.
How to Do It
Navigate to Academic Scheduling > Settings > Workload Calculations.
Click the blue “Recalculate Workloads” button at the top of the screen.
Select from the dropdown the Term for which you would like to re-run your Workload Calculations, thereby updating Workload values for all Sections.
Repeat this process for each Term that you would like to update.
Downstream Impact
The Workload values in the Instructor Dashboard and Instructor Profiles will now be updated for that term.