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Classroom Information

Classrooms must be used responsibly.  Click here to see the Guidelines for Classroom Use.


Announcements

New for Fall 2009 are classes in the BioScience Research Collaborative. Click here to find information about BRC, including how to get there and an explanation for why certain classes have been assigned there.

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Standard Class Times

Rice University utilizes Standard Time Blocks. Click here to view Rice's Standard Class TimesPDF.

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Room Assignments

Click here to look up classroom assignments for Fall 2009 classes.
Classroom assignments for Fall 2009 Final Exams will be available approximately November 13, 2009.

* Please note that room assignments may change through the first month of a semester, due to many factors including: large changes in class enrollment, departments' decisions to add/drop courses and sections and instructors' decisions to increase enrollment. It may be beneficial to check classroom assignments often during this period of increased activity.

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Room Use and Availability Schedule

To display the schedule of classroom use, click this linkexternal_link and then click "Schedules" on the left side of that page.

Use that "Schedules" page to help you see when rooms are available.

After you customize your search by editing any of or all of the parameters (start date, end date, start time, end time, building, or building/room), click the "Apply Filter" button.

Sort the results by clicking the column headings on the results page.

Alternately, you may click here to see room use on schedule.rice.eduexternal_link.

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How to Request a Classroom

Faculty, instructors, and staff members may request a classroom here.
Student organizations may request the use of classrooms through the Office of Students Activitiesexternal_link.

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Classroom Task Force

Established in March 2008, the Classroom Task Force is charged with evaluating classroom use and quality, and with making formal recommendations to the Provost. Click here for more information on the Classroom Task Force.

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Anchor Courses

A rational approach to space allocation calls first for assignment of space for very large courses, followed by assignment of space for all others. Most of the largest courses Rice offers are "service" courses in BIOS, CHEM, MATH, PHYS, and STAT. These service courses are "anchored" in time (day/time meeting pattern) and space (classroom assigned) in order to provide a stable base and appropriate meeting spaces for all Rice classes.

The following are the Anchor Courses:

BIOS 201
BIOS 202
BIOS 301
BIOS 302
BIOS 341
BIOS 344

CHEM 121
CHEM 122
CHEM 211
CHEM 212

MATH 101
MATH 102
MATH 111
MATH 112
MATH 211
MATH 212
MATH 221
MATH 222

PHYS 101
PHYS 102
PHYS 111
PHYS 112
PHYS 125
PHYS 126

STAT 280

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Building and Room Data

Click here for information on buildings and classrooms.
Click here to locate a building on Rice's campus mapexternal_link.
Click here for information on room featuresexternal_link.

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Room Use Statistics

Click here to view Classroom Use Statistics.

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Classroom FAQs

For a list of frequently asked classroom questions, click here.

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Last Revised : November 11, 2009