Elective Information

What is an Elective?

• Your core classes consist of those classes that are required for your grade and/or your academy. Core classes are like English, Math, Science, Phys-Ed, Social Studies, and your Academy Focus courses.
• These classes do not fill your entire schedule. You can view your core classes (when they are available) by logging in here: www.dmcampus.org/ae/schedule/showSchedule.php.
• The academies provide elective courses for you to attend during those periods that are not scheduled for core courses.
• Typically, electives meet for one hour twice a week. They are also usually only last one Trimester. So, each trimester, you will need to select electives to fill your open time.
• These electives cover a wide range of materials related to various academies and course areas. They often provide a good opportunity for you to take classes relating to topics normally covered only for the other academies. For example, Information System students will be taught programming in their academy focus courses. For those students not in the Information Systems Academy, a class in Visual Basic is offered for teaching programming.
• Most electives are offered during period 10, when the least core courses are taught.

How do I choose my electives?

1. Get your schedule by logging in to www.dmcampus.org/ae/schedule/showSchedule.php.
2. Determine the open periods you have.
3. Go directly to the elective selection web page at www.dmcampus.org/ae/registration, or:
   • Visit www.dmcampus.org
   • Click on , to bring up the registration page.
   • Click on to bring up the electives selection for registration.
4. You will see a 3 part form appear. It looks something like this animated picture
5. Look at each elective you want to take and see if it is available on the days and periods you are not scheduled. REMEMBER THAT FOR MANY PEOPLE, ALL OF PERIOD 10 IS AVAILABLE FOR ELECTIVES.
6. Select all the electives you want, but make sure that they are scheduled to meet during your open time.
7. Try to fill in all your open time (see this note)
8. Enter your first name from the password sheet that was mailed to you.
9. Enter your last name from the password sheet that was mailed to you.
10. Enter the password from the password sheet that was mailed to you. You will see asterisks as you type it in.
11. Press the button.
12. If all goes correctly, you will see a page showing you a receipt of what you have selected. A sample image of a receipt is shown here:
    

What if I choose too few electives?

If you do not choose enough electives, electives will be chosen for you. Usually, this is done after everyone else has selected, so you will be placed in the least popular classes.

Can I make a correction?

Yes, you can make corrections. To do this, just repeat the selection process by selecting all new choices, entering your name and password, and then pressing the following will happen.

1. First all your previous choices will be ERASED .
2. Then all your new choices will be applied..

WARNING: In order to select the same course again when you make your changes, there needs to be at least one more space (seat) available in the class. So it may not be possible to keep all your previous selections when making a change.

Things that can go 'wrong'.

• You previously selected a course that takes up one or more of the periods that the course you just selected takes up. For example, if you chose "Fitness Training W2-F4/5" and then tried to choose "Applied Music W2", the "W2" part of your schedule is already taken up. The previous course will be removed and the course just selected will be added.

• If you see that there are available seats in an elective, but while you were looking at your screen, someone else selected the last seat, the status of that project will go from Available to Unavailable. However, your browser will not show this in 'real time'. So, occasionally you will select a project, enter your name and password and will get 'beat out' of the course. You must choose another, available course and re-enter your password.
  
  Think about it this way:
  1. Both you and a friend of yours, using two separate computers, bring up the project selection website at the same time.
  2. There is only ONE seat left in the Digital Design course. Both of you want to get in that course.
  3. Your friend quickly selects the project and enters his/her name and password and presses , taking the last seat.
  4. Now, there are NO seats left in the course. But YOUR browser does NOT update the screen every time this happens, so you still think there may be a seat.
  5. You select Digital Design, enter your name and password and press , but there are no longer seats in that project, so you see the above message, and you also notice that Digital Design is no longer available.
  6. You choose your next favorite project and hope to get into Digital Design next time it is offered.
  7. You remember that next year you will be in the next grade and will get to select prior tomore people than you did this year, so there will be a better chance of you getting the course then.

• If you try to select courses, but your grade is not supposed to select yet (yes, the selection program knows what grade you are in), you will see a message indicating that you can not select yet. Confer with the calendar to determine when you should be selecting. If you are selecting during school hours, wait for the announcement telling you that it's ok for your grade to select.

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• If you do not enter your information EXACTLY as it appears in the sheet, you will not be able to make your selection. Note that if your name is not spelled correctly on the sheet, you must enter the mispelled version EXACTLY as it appears on the password sheet.
• Occasionally someone will enter their first or last name and append a space to the end of it. The space will not show up in the Last Name or First Name box, but it will not be correct. So if you are re-entering your password, it is good practice to select the text of your last name and first name to make sure there are no spaces at the end of them. See this link to see what this looks like.
• If your name appears in your password sheet with a ", jr" at the end, or something like that, you MUST include it exactly as specified. Be careful about commas and periods. "John F. Jr." is NOT the same as John F Jr.".