Initial Scheduling

Note: These dates are subject to change at any time by official action of the Registrar’s Office. 

Note: These dates are subject to change at any time by official action of the Registrar’s Office. 

Note: These dates are subject to change at any time by official action of the Registrar’s Office. 

All contact hours are conducted in-person. 

The University has established learning options that allow flexibility for in-person classes: 

• Alternating Attendance: Students are divided into two or more groups. Each group of students meets with the instructor in-person, in the classroom, on an alternating schedule. The remaining contact hours are completed through interactive and/or applied learning activities. 

• Alternating Lab Sessions: Lab sections are divided into two or more groups of students. The groups participate in-person, in the lab, on an alternating schedule. On class days when students are not physically in the lab, they participate in interactive and/or applied learning activities. 

• Synchronous Simulcast: This in-person class could have one or more remote students. Some students meet with the instructor in the classroom at every class meeting, while other students interact with the instructor and their peers through Zoom in a synchronous manner. Students select if they are attending in person or online at the point of registration. Students who select online are not able to attend in person. 

Blended/Hybrid classes have a reduced classroom meeting pattern. These classes meet in-person less frequently, with online course activity replacing a portion of in-person meetings. Online activities are hosted on Brightspace, Zoom and/or other instructional technologies. 

All Blended/Hybrid classes’ online portions fall into one of the following categories: 

• Synchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers on Zoom during the scheduled class meeting times. 

• Asynchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers on Brightspace without real-time interaction. 

• Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers asynchronously through Brightspace, with some scheduled synchronous sessions on Zoom. 

The in-person portion of a Blended/Hybrid class can also be Synchronous Simulcast (see the “Mixed In-person" section above for more information. 

Note: Synchronous teaching and learning happen at the same time, with students meeting with the instructor in-person or online at specified times. Asynchronous teaching and learning do not happen in the same place or at the same time. Mixed Asynchronous/Synchronous teaching and learning happen as a mix of asynchronous and synchronous teaching and learning. 

Classes meet fully online and are not assigned to a physical classroom location. 

All fully online classes fall into one of the following categories: 

• Synchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers on Zoom during the scheduled class meeting times. 

• Asynchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers on Brightspace without real-time interaction. 

• Mixed Synchronous/Asynchronous: Students interact with the instructor and their peers asynchronously through Brightspace, with some scheduled synchronous sessions on Zoom. 

Note: Synchronous teaching and learning happen at the same time, with students meeting with the instructor in-person or online at specified times. Asynchronous teaching and learning do not happen in the same place or at the same time. Mixed Asynchronous/Synchronous teaching and learning happen as a mix of asynchronous and synchronous teaching and learning. 

Completion of contact hours is arranged individually by instructor and student. These sections are not considered online for billing or immunization requirements. 

A cross listed course is a single course offered collaboratively by two or more departments when the topic extends across disciplines. Two or more sections of the same course are offered under different departmental designations, so the courses will have different course subjects and may have different catalog numbers, but the same Course ID. Cross listed courses are considered equivalent to one another, so students can receive credit for only one version of a course with the same Course ID. Similarly, if one version of a cross listed course fulfills a requirement for a major, minor, or general education category, all the courses it is cross listed with will fulfill the same requirement.

Review more information about cross listed courses in the Undergraduate Bulletin under "Equivalent Courses."

Cross-Registration occurs when there is a formal agreement between two or more institutions that allows a student who is matriculated in a degree program at one institution (the "home" institution) to enroll in coursework at a different institution (the "host" institution) during the same academic term. Cross-Registration supports timely degree completion by providing students access to courses offered by another institution while still enrolled at their home institution. Both the home and host institutions must approve a student's request to Cross-Register. Cross-Registration at the University at Albany is only available during the fall and spring semesters.

Students should also be aware of the following guidelines:

• Credits will be recorded on your UAlbany transcript as a Cross-Registration course, with the appropriate credits attempted and earned. Letter grades will be translated to a Satisfactory (S) or Unsatisfactory (U) grade on your UAlbany transcript.  "S" grades can fulfill graduation requirements.
• Cross-Registered courses do not count toward residency requirements. 

Review more information about Cross-Registration.

Shared-resources classes refer specifically to the pairing of a 400-level undergraduate class and a 500-level graduate class that have overlapping content and are offered by the same instructor at the same time in the same place. Shared-resources classes are not cross listed because one is graduate-level and one is undergraduate-level. However, graduate students may not enroll in the graduate section of a shared-resources class that they have already completed at the undergraduate level. Shared-resources classes will have the same title and course description (topics courses will have the same title, but the course descriptions will vary).

Review more information about shared-resources classes in the Graduate Bulletin under "Shared-Resources Courses and Registration."