Once an instructor has logged in they will be greeted by the Home page depicted in Figure 2.7.2-1.  The welcome message is customized to greet the instructor based on the information stored under personal information (which is the same as the Edit Instructor information).

Figure 2.7.2-1: Instructor Preferences Home Screen

The instructor may edit his or her personal information or master scheduling preferences (neither of which are quarter specific) simply by clicking the first two links on the main section of the page.  If the instructor would like to edit preferences specific to a certain quarter, and he or she has already set preferences for that quarter, the quarter can be re-initiated by clicking the link for the given quarter.  A status is given next to the quarters to give the instructor an idea of how effective preference changes will be.  This status is based upon what the administrator has set for the current stage of the schedule under schedule properties.  Upon clicking one of the quarters the instructor will be transferred to the Course Preferences page for that quarter. 

If the instructor would like to edit a quarter which he has not previously set any preferences for, he or she would click the 'New Quarter' link under Quarterly Scheduling Preferences.  Upon clicking this the instructor would be presented with the page shown in Figure 2.7.2-2. 

Figure 2.7.2-2: Instructor Preferences New Quarter Screen

From here the instructor would select the quarter for which he or she would like to edit preferences from a list predefined by the schedule administrator, and select what the initial values for the preferences of this new quarter would be.  Upon clicking Submit the user would be transferred to the Course Preferences page of the new quarter.