Online Department Enrollment Status Report (DESR) instructions are available here.

Each semester, UNM Online Scheduling follows the online Department Enrollment Status Report (DESR) timeline.

Use the Online Scheduling Form to schedule or cancel the following types of course sections:

• Online Course
• Accelerated Online Program Course

Submit forms to Online Scheduling (onlinescheduling@unm.edu) after obtaining chair and dean signatures (if needed). Do not submit online or AOP scheduling forms directly to the main UNM Scheduling Office.

Once UNM Online has submitted a form to UNM Scheduling for processing, expect to see the schedule changes reflected in Banner in about 7 business days. In the month leading up to the start of a semester, allow for longer processing times.

If an AOP section must be added after registration opens, submit the add form to Online Scheduling at least one month in advance of the class start date. This allows time for the class to be added in Banner, for the class to be grouped in Canvas as needed, and for students to enroll in the correct sections.

Approval is necessary to schedule a course that is new to the online delivery mode. For a course to be considered, follow the process below. Departments must obtain approval through this process before requesting to schedule online courses that are new to online instruction.

1. The College/School submits a fully signed and completed Online Course Proposal (OCP) Form to unmonlineproposals@unm.edu. Best consideration dates are posted on the Online Course Proposals webpage. Direct questions about OCPs to unmonlineproposals@unm.edu.
2. UNM Online Proposals will notify theCollege/School if the OCP form requires corrections to be considered for development.
3. OCPs are scored against a rubric and weighted according to how well the course will support unit and institutional goals. After the vetting process, select courses are approved for development. Generally, no more than 3 to 4 proposed courses can be approved per term per College/School due to limited development resources. To keep instructors’ workloads manageable, no more than 2 new courses are typically approved per instructor who will be designing the courses.
4. UNM Online Proposals notifies the College/School whether the course was approved for development. Departments can expect to receive OCP approval decisions 1-2 weeks after the best consideration date for the term.
5. If the course has been approved for development and offering, the College/School’s scheduler may request to schedule the online course. To do this before the final DESR deadline, the scheduler adds the course to the bottom of their online DESR submission. If it is after the final DESR deadline, the scheduler uses an Online Scheduling Form to add the course instead of a DESR.

Use the Online Crosslist Form to schedule a group of equivalent and interchangeable online courses. With each crosslisted group, there is a "home department." A home department is the College/School responsible for submitting crosslist forms and ensuring identical scheduling of all participating sections. Obtain signatures from the chairs of all departments that will be involved in the crosslist group before submitting the Online Crosslist Form to Online Scheduling. The home department submits any schedule revision requests for the crosslisted courses using an Online Scheduling Form. A signed crosslist form is required every year for interdepartmental crosslist groups that rolled over from the previous year to maintain the crosslisted courses on the schedule. Some online courses are crosslisted per the UNM Catalog, requiring the submission of a crosslist form with every scheduling request.

For an online section, changing the instructor of record is done through the UNM Online Scheduling Office. Departments must not make such instructor updates themselves. With online courses, an instructor change impacts course development, resource allocation, and budget decisions. To change an instructor, email onlinescheduling@unm.edu and include: term, CRN, subject, course number, instructor name, and UNM Banner ID number.

Academic departments submit their own section capacity updates for online and AOP courses the same way they would for in-person courses.

Fall intersession courses are typically placed on reserve status (deactivated for registration) during the fall schedule build. Forms to add or reactivate fall intersession classes are usually not accepted until mid-October. To add or reactivate an online section for fall intersession, submit an Online Scheduling Form to onlinescheduling@unm.edu with appropriate signatures. Instructional designer support is unavailable when UNM is closed for Winter Break. Schedulers should submit online intersession forms by November 1, as this will help ensure instructors can set up their classes in Canvas with designer support before the break.

Each Special Event and Classroom Request is reviewed by the UNM Scheduling Office. The office accepts requests at least 4 days prior to the event from UNM colleges, departments, and chartered student organizations. Allow more processing time for events occurring on the weekend. Incomplete forms will not be processed.