Originally, I wanted a 'hold' and 'delete' button here as we make assignments so that we can get rid of some of the noise as we 'approve' courses to be assigned to a particular instructor. Now I'm thinking we probably don't want a delete function because then you are modifying the original teaching preference of the instructor. However, I think a 'hold' button would be good. An example of using this option is that I have assigned 3 courses to a particular instructor and he's now teaching his full load. However, as we continue to assign instructors, sometimes we need to go back and modify what we originally 'approved'. So we want to continue to see what the instructor was willing to teach in addition to what we assigned him. I would like to put the courses not assigned to him, 'on hold' which would show in a different color than green or the text would show as strike thru or something. Also, this would help in the 'course' view, as you are assigning courses, I don't want to see instructor X on that course view if he now has a full load. It's fine to have instructor X continue to show but because I put that course on his preferences on hold, I now see his name striked thru or a different color. Again, we need to preserve the original preferences but be able to clear out some of the clutter to see who still needs to have courses assigned and which courses still need an instructor assigned. Hopefully this all makes sense??

In some cases we know that we have to teach a certain course, but we don't know who the instructor will be. We may reach out to Grad Students, temporary instructors or adjunct faculty. We want to make sure we don't forget to assign an instructor to a course. In Banner, even if we don't have an instructor yet, or maybe the instructor isn't entered in PPS yet, we can still enter the course with "Staff" as the instructor name. We'd like to have that as an option in the 'By Course' view. Actually, it would be nice if we can have an instructor called 'Staff' (it can even be tied to my email or someone's email that we enter) that way we can look at the 'Instructor' view and see what classes we still need to find instructors for.

It's nice that one can assign instructors in the Teaching Preference "By Instructor" view but the same functionality should be available in the "By Course" view as well.

When completing the Teaching Preferences it would be nice to have a “save but don’t submit” button rather than just “Done.” I imagine instructors will want to have the option to put together their first draft and finalize at a later date without submitting.

It would be great to have a summary of how many seats are planned in each quarter and across the entire year. This could update depending on what we are viewing. Quarterly totals at the bottom of each column. Annual totals across each row and across the bottom.

There is no way to indicate when you’d like to teach or how big you want the class to be. The “unavailability” part is too small and very difficult...

Just like we can remove summer sessions or show one quarter at a time in the 'Annual Plan' view, i'd like to be able to remove the summer sessions from showing on the Teaching Preferences views. And likely the ability to just see one quarter at a time vs. the whole academic year.