Are student schedules available on the portal?
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Anonymous
| My daughters friends are all claiming to be able to view next years schedules on the student portal, but when my daughter tries she just keeps getting a “schedule not available” message. Anyone have any luck accessing the schedules? |
Anonymous
| My daughter is overseas at the moment but read off her schedule to me this afternoon on the phone. She is going into HS this coming year. She says that there is always a "hack" to get in? I guess some friends let her know about it. |
Anonymous
| Schedules aren't finalized until just before school starts. You can see course requests for next year now. |
Anonymous
+1. For medical reasons, one of my kids had to be hand scheduled, and the counselor always said, don't call us until the week before school, because we don't schedule until then. There is so much movement in and out of HS these days, that it doesn't make any sense to do schedules earlier than that. Of course, your school's schedule may vary a little, but not by a month. |
Anonymous
| Yes - they are online. Someone at MCPS messed up. Both of my kids and all of their friends have been able to view them. |
Anonymous
| PP here again - my child said there was something they had to do to see them. They didn’t show up right away necessarily. |
Anonymous
| Yes, schedules have been released albeit they are not finalized. You have to sign into your child's account before clicking the following link. https://portal.mcpsmd.org/guardian/attendance.html |
Anonymous
| There is some other link out there that kids are passing around. Sign in and you can see schedules |
Anonymous
| Same thing happened last year. Kids could log in the portal and find a way to see who their teachers are. If it is a big deal, MCPS should fix the problem. If no one cares, then so be it It seems that all of the kids in our neighborhood know who their teachers are already. |
Anonymous
It works! 
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Anonymous
+1 Middle School |
Anonymous
| FWIW the same thing happened last year and my dd's schedule didn't change, nor did her friends'. However, I'm sure that some schedules change the week before school begins as they try to hand schedule kids who are new or request changes. |
Anonymous
I work at a MCPS school as a counselor. Everyone is more or less scheduled but it could change on a dime. Once schedules are input, which is what you’re seeing, counselors then have to do the following: Fix mistakes Move kids around who for whatever reason can’t be together Check to make sure sections are balanced so that there are equal numbers of kids with IEPs, or with ESOL needs, or 504 plans. In that week before school starts teachers check the lists and some go ballistic if they think they have an unfair or unbalanced class in relation to others. Since all the sections are capped, both in terms of IEP numbers in inclusion classes and the overall number caps, sometimes we need to move a whole bunch of kids around to get it to work. Then there are the kids who drop orchestra or want orchestra, or didn’t have an IEP and now do, or who move in last minute and have such specific course needs we have to move others to make it work. So your schedule may stay this way, but it also may not. Keep in mind that teachers can move around too if they’re teaching period 2 algebra right now, that could change. The reason we tell you to come in the last week is so you don’t then get inadvertently moved around by someone. Others have access to scheduling too, ie the scheduling admin. |
Anonymous
OP here. Worked for us too. Thanks guys! |
Anonymous
| Is this a goof by MCPS to release the kids’ schedule in this manner or intentional? As some noted this happened last year and the schedules were quickly removed. I was just thinking that if this were intentional MCPS would have communicated it as opposed to letting the kids share this information via Instagram (which is how my kids found out about it). |