{"id":346,"date":"2025-04-07T09:03:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/?p=346"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:53:07","slug":"class-numbers-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/class-numbers-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Numbers Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following information explains the course and class identifiers in MyBU Student. Identifiers include course values, subject values, catalog numbers, section numbers, and class numbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-top: 10px solid #669999; text-align:right; margin-block-end: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/mybu-student-glossary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Glossary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/06\/Glossary-icon.png\" alt=\"Glossary Icon - Click here for MyBU Student Glossary.\" width=\"55px\" height=\"55px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-636x511.png\" alt=\"This shows an example of a course as displayed in MyBU student highlighting the following identifiers that every BU course has: the subject and catalog number, which together make up the course, as well as the section number and the class number.\" width=\"636\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-636x511.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-1024x822.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-768x617.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-1536x1234.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/files\/2025\/04\/Class-Numbers-Explained-QC-2048x1645.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Courses<\/strong> are created with an identifier which includes the Subject and Catalog Number: <strong>ENGEK 103<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>ENGEK = Subject Area<\/li>\n<li>103 = Catalog Number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Section Number<\/strong>: if a course has multiple sections offered, the Section Number will be listed in a \u2018LetterNumber\u2019 (A1) format. Note that there is flexibility for departments to include other identifiers after the \u2018LetterNumber\u2019 combination (as seen in this example): <strong>A1-LEC<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Class Number<\/strong> is a system generated identifier listed with the Section Number: <strong>8688<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<strong>Tip for Faculty<\/strong>: Faculty can find the identifiers for their classes in the Class Roster, Grade Roster, Teaching Schedule, or the University Class Search.<\/p>\n<p>Page last updated April 2025. For a PDF copy, print this webpage as a PDF.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following information explains the course and class identifiers in MyBU Student. Identifiers include course values, subject values, catalog numbers, section numbers, and class numbers. Faculty can find the identifiers for their classes in the Class Roster, Grade Roster, Teaching Schedule, or the University Class Search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[50,51,13,30,44,32,47,6,26,31,43,45,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sis-training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}