This year, the district entered the digital age, and altered their scheduling system to the online Power Scheduler.
“We’ve been asked about [online scheduling] for years,” said Seaholm counselor, Rebecca Rossen.
Through Power Scheduler, Seaholm’s incoming freshmen, current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors registered for the courses they wish to take next year.
Some students found Power Scheduler to be a bit a confusing at first.
“It was kind of confusing because some of the classes didn’t match on career cruising, and power school,” said Freshman Hannah Sheppard. “But other than that it was good.”
Sophomore Andrew Benson agreed, saying that he initially found the scheduling a bit difficult to work with.
“When we tried to schedule it, it crashed,” Benson said. “So we had to wait a couple days for it to boot back up.”
After the network was up and working again, Benson then found the scheduling to be more efficient.
“Last year, they made a schedule in ten minutes at the assembly,” Benson said. “So it was kind of confusing.”
Despite its imperfections, Benson said that he believed the online update was much needed.
“Once everybody gets the hang of [online scheduling], it’s going to be a lot easier,” Rossen said.
Rossen added that students need to get used to online scheduling, because it is used by most colleges.
Junior Amber March said that she enjoyed being able to sit down at home on her computer, and decide in a much more relaxed way, what classes she’d be eligible to take next year.
“I know a lot of people are complaining about it, but I actually like it,” March said.
Overall, Rossen has been very pleased with the results.
“I feel like ‘so far, so good’,” Rossen said.
Walt Romano agrees that the transition from the old scheduling to the new scheduling has been a success.
“It’s an easy system to work with,” Romano said. “So I like it.”
In addition, the online scheduling is more efficient in that the information and course selections process is completely computer generated.
The computer takes all of the data, and makes a master schedule based on the classes the students pick.
“So in a way [the students] determining which classes are going to run here at Seaholm next year,” Rossen said.
Despite the uproar of the online scheduling, both Benson and March have yet to complete the EDP/Career Cruising.
“I don’t think that’s [it’s] necessary,” March said.
Rossen said that the EDP/ Career Cruising is a state requirement, which all students must update annually.
“[Career Cruising] is something that has always been in place for awhile, but we’re just trying to bring it to the front,” Rossen said.
In addition, the EDP is a tool which is able to assist students in searching for career paths, and what possible colleges suffice that student’s career of choice.
