Annual Course Catalog Review & Update
In preparation of 2025-2026 course/class scheduling, School of Medicine department course administrators are strongly encouraged to attend two trainings. The first, SOM Course Management Workshop, will focus on preparing for prior term copy. The second, SOM Class Scheduling Workshop, will focus on class and room scheduling in collaboration with the Medscheduler team. Recordings of both workshops will be published on the Curriculum Management website upon completion.
There are four primary milestones of course and class scheduling:
Course Maintenance: before the course catalog is created for the upcoming year in a process called prior term copy, where the current academic year is rolled forward to populate the following year's classes, course inventory should be carefully reviewed and revised.
Deadline: Prior Term Copy, May 16, 2025
Expected revisions include:
- activating new courses
- inactivating retired courses
- updating elements of a course (titles, descriptions, units, grading bases, repeatability)
- adding/removing crosslistings
Priority Room Scheduling: most School of Medicine (SoM) classes meet in Med building spaces, some meet in department controlled spaces, and by exception, some meet in main campus classrooms. Medscheduler assigns rooms bi-annually, additional information regarding the room scheduling process is available at the Medscheduler website. Class meeting patterns, the maximum enrollment capacity, preferred room capacity and at least one SOM room feature must be entered into Coursedog by the room scheduling deadline to be assigned a space.
Deadline: Autumn/Winter: 07/11/2025; Spring/Summer: 10/17/2025
Final review: there are a subset of data, while not needed for Priority Room Scheduling, that are important to review and to have accurate prior to when student enrollment planning opens.
Open Enrollment: Ensure that any/all enrollment restrictions are in place prior to the opening of enrollment planning for the quarter in which the class will be taught.
Important Dates/Deadlines for 2025-2026
Date | Event |
4/10/2025 | SOM Course Management Basics workshop - supplemental PowerPoint slides |
5/16/2025 | Course Updates for Prior Term Copy Due: Deadline to submit course changes to be included in 2025-2026 Prior Term Copy Process |
5/19-5/23/2025 | Prior Term Copy (PTC)- Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarter classes will be scheduled for the 2025-2026 academic year |
5/29/2025 | SOM Class Scheduling workshop - supplemental PowerPoint slides |
6/27/2025 | Medscheduler required course room request deadline |
7/11/2025 | Medscheduler Aut/Win room request deadline for standard classes |
7/11/2025 | Autumn Phase 2 Central University Room Scheduling Deadline |
Week of 8/11/2025 | Stanford Bulletin published with academic year 2025-2026 degree requirements and course offerings |
TBD - early October | PTC for Summer classes |
10/17/2025 | Medscheduler required course room request deadline for Spring/Summer |
10/17/2025 | Winter Phase 2 Central University Room Scheduling Deadline |
1/20/2026 | Spring Phase 2 Central University Room Scheduling Deadline |
3/6/2026 | Summer Phase 2 Central University Room Scheduling Deadline |
Open lab for the Regsitrar- Courses will be held every Thursday from 10-11AM via Zoom.