Daily Class Schedule

Course Scheduling

Academic Policy 01.03.006, Scheduling Classes

Academic Policy 01.03.001, Centralized Classroom and Event Planning

The new daily class schedule is effective for spring 2026 courses and is based on a class length of 55 minutes for Monday – Wednesday – Friday classes and 80 minutes for Monday – Wednesday, Tuesday – Thursday, and Wednesday – Friday classes, with 20 minutes between classes. Courses that meet one day a week are scheduled in 160-minute blocks and cannot meet between 11:35 am and 2:15 pm except on Fridays.

Please note that this change in the new daily class schedule only applies to spring and fall semesters beginning with spring 2026. Summer semester’s daily class schedule is not affected by this change.

If a department wishes to schedule a course outside of the new daily class schedule periods, a request must be submitted following the procedure on the Scheduling Off the Daily Class Schedule page.

Questions regarding the new daily class schedule should be directed to regsched@uga.edu.

2026 Spring/Fall Schedule Visual Grid

Course Scheduling Tool

The Office of Institutional Research and the Office of the Registrar have collaborated to create a new Course Scheduling Tool designed to assist schools and colleges in maintaining compliance with the New Daily Class Schedule policies going into effect spring 2026.

Three reports related to these policies are available in the Course Scheduling Tool:

  • Course Distributions by Day
    • Policy: Units should schedule a minimum of 16% of their courses each weekday.
    • The Course Scheduling Tool shows the percentages and number of classes distributed over the days of the week. Any percentage below 16% is marked red.
  • Primetime & Heatmap by Day
    • Policy: Deans are responsible for ensuring that their academic units do not schedule more than 60% of their courses during primetime.
    • The Course Scheduling Tool shows the percentages and number of classes that are taught during primetime periods. Any percentage above 60% is marked in red.
  • Seat Fill and Allowable Enrollment
    • Policy: Maximum enrollment of courses should reflect the actual enrollment of the course over the previous two years. To allow for increased enrollment, maximum enrollment may increase up to 10% from the previous two years.
    • The Course Scheduling Tool shows the current enrollment, maximum enrollment, and allowable enrollment (10% increase) by course and section.
    • The Seat Fill Rate of a course should not fall below 65%. Any seat fill rate below 65% is marked in red.

Report Details:

  • Like ARGOS, reports on the OIR’s Course Scheduling Tool update overnight. Changes made in Banner will reflect the next day.
  • Each report can be filtered by Term, College, Department, Subject, Course ID, Course Classification, and Course Status.
  • Hovering over the “i” icon will display the associated policies and instructions on how to use the specific report.
  • Right-click on any number to view a menu that allows users to examine the information in more detail.
  • The “Drill Through” option will show specific classes involved in the numbers or percentages in the report.

Questions regarding the Course Scheduling Tool, as well as exceptions to scheduling off the Daily Class Schedule, can be directed to regsched@uga.edu.

Course Scheduling Tool

Frequently Asked Questions

The new daily class schedule will be effective for spring 2026 courses. Spring and summer 2026 scheduling opens July 1, 2025.

The new daily class schedule allows various options for course scheduling, including a two-day 80-minute period, which is preferred by many instructors and students. The new schedule provides greater flexibility to students in their scheduling, increases classroom utilization across the week, encourages class times other than Tuesday-Thursday, and allows slightly longer classes to meet.

Off-schedule requests require approval prior to scheduling. The procedure to submit the request is available on the Scheduling Off the Daily Class Schedule page.

No, this would be considered an off-schedule request and would require approval prior to scheduling.

Prime time periods start between 9:55 am – 2:35 pm (time periods 2-4) and are the most popular class scheduling times. No more than 60% of the total number of classes scheduled by the unit for that day should be within the prime time periods.

Faculty may schedule classes after 5:00 pm in the manner that best suits the course.

An “academic unit” refers to a department. If there is not a department, then “academic unit” refers to the school / college.

No. The new daily class schedule does not affect the summer schedule. Summer will continue to have a separate schedule from fall and spring.