v3 Master Schedule > Section

The Master Schedule interchange loads education course offerings and their schedule. It can be used to exchange data regarding the course offerings, sections, and bell schedule for a school.

The Section entity represents a setting in which organized instruction of course content is provided, in-person or otherwise, to one or more students for a given period of time. A course offering may be associated to more than one section.

Prerequisites

Class Period
Location
Course Offering

Scenarios

Create a Section for Grand Bend Elementary School which references the Course Offering added for "English Language Arts, Grade 1"
Create a Section for Grand Bend High School which references the Course Offering added for "ALGEBRA 1"
Update the availableCredits for the for Grand Bend Elementary School Section
Update the availableCredits for the Grand Bend High School section

Resource	Property Name	Is Collection	Data Type	Required / Optional	Scenario 1 POST	Scenario 2 POST	Scenario 3 PUT	Scenario 4 PUT
Sections	classPeriods	TRUE	classPeriods{}	REQUIRED
classPeriods	classPeriodReference	FALSE	classPeriodReference	REQUIRED
classPeriodReference	classPeriodName	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	["Class Period 01" if possible \| system value]	["Class Period 01" if possible \| system value]	["Class Period 01" if possible \| system value]	["Class Period 01" if possible \| system value]
classPeriodReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
Sections	courseOfferingReference	FALSE	courseOfferingReference	REQUIRED
courseOfferingReference	sessionName	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester
courseOfferingReference	localCourseCode	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	["ELA-01" if possible \| system value]	["ALG-2" if possible \| system value]	["ELA-01" if possible \| system value]	["ALG-2" if possible \| system value]
courseOfferingReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
courseOfferingReference	schoolYear	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	2017	2017	2017	2017
Sections	locationReference	FALSE	locationReference	REQUIRED
locationReference	classroomIdentificationCode	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	["501" if possible \| system value]	["901" if possible \| system value]	["501" if possible \| system value]	["901" if possible \| system value]
locationReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
Sections	programs	TRUE	Programs[]	OPTIONAL
sectionPrograms	programReference	FALSE	programReference	OPTIONAL
programReference	educationOrganizationId	FALSE	integer	OPTIONAL
programReference	programName	FALSE	string	OPTIONAL
programReference	programTypeDescriptor	FALSE	programTypeDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	schoolReference	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED
schoolReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
Sections	characteristics	TRUE	sectionCharacteristic[]	OPTIONAL
sectionCharacteristics	sectionCharacteristicDescriptor	FALSE	sectionCharacteristicDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	sequenceOfCourse	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	1	1	1	1
Sections	sectionIdentifier	FALSE	nvarchar	REQUIRED	["ELA012017RM555" if possible \| system value]	["ALG12017RM901" if possible \| system value]	["ELA012017RM555" if possible \| system value]	["ALG12017RM901" if possible \| system value]
Sections	availableCreditConversion	FALSE	number	OPTIONAL
Sections	availableCredits	FALSE	number	REQUIRED	1	1	2	3
Sections	availableCreditTypeDescriptor	FALSE	availableCreditTypeDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	courseLevelCharacteristics	TRUE	courseLevelCharacteristic[]	OPTIONAL
courseLevelCharacteristics	courseLevelCharacteristicDescriptor	FALSE	courseLevelCharacteristicDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	educationalEnvironmentDescriptor	FALSE	educationalEnvironmentDescriptor	REQUIRED	Classroom	Classroom	Classroom	Classroom
Sections	instructionLanguageDescriptor	FALSE	instructionLanguageDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	mediumOfInstructionDescriptor	FALSE	mediumOfInstructionDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	offeredGradeLevels	TRUE	offeredGradeLevel[]	OPTIONAL
offeredGradeLevel	gradeLevelDescriptor	FALSE	gradeLevelDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	populationServedDescriptor	FALSE	populationServedDescriptor	OPTIONAL
Sections	sectionName	FALSE	string	OPTIONAL
Sections	officialAttendancePeriod	FALSE	boolean	OPTIONAL