EMS Campus Planning Interface (CPI) User Guide

The EMS Campus Planning Interface is the web-based interface that academic units typically use to review course schedule data and communicate changes to the Domain Scheduler. You can access EMS Campus Planning Interface through any standard Internet browser.

To log in to the EMS Campus Planning Interface:

1. In a web browser, enter the EMS Campus Planning Interface URL.

   The EMS Campus Planning Interface Home page opens.

2. Click Log In.

   The EMS Campus Planning Interface Login page opens.

3. In User ID, enter your User ID, which is either your EMS User ID or your network User ID.

4. In Password, enter your password.

5. Click Login.

   The Term Selector page opens. This page lists all the available terms in your organization’s implementation of EMS Campus.

6. Select the term with which to work for this session of the EMS Campus Planning Interface, and then click Save.

   The Term Details page opens for the selected term opens. You are now ready to work with the selected term.

   If the list of available terms is extensive, you can enter a search string in one or more of the available search fields and search for a specific term. Your search is not case-sensitive, but the search is limited to the exact order of the characters in the string and it must begin with the information for which you are searching. For example, to search for 2008 Spring, you can enter 2008, but not Spring. After you tab out of a search field, the list of available terms that meet all your search criteria is dynamically updated.

   The New Course option displays on the menu bar only if Define & Edit Courses mode or Dual mode has been set for the displayed term, and your EMS Administrator has configured your user account with the appropriate permissions. The Academic Book option displays on the menu bar only if Read Only mode has been set for the displayed term.

7. To log out, on the Campus Planning Interface menu, click Log Out.