Overview
The Mass Requests screen is used to mass add course requests to a group of students, mass drop course requests from a group of students, or replace a course request (drop and add a course request) for a group of students in one process. Mass Requests allows you to search for students who meet certain criteria – by grade level, schedule, grades, test scores, special programs, or any other data collected on a student and add a course request to those students. You can, for example, schedule mass requests for students in gifted, ESE, ESOL, and Special Education programs by specifying the search criteria and then adding the course request.
Whenever you are mass assigning requests you must set the School Year at the top right of Focus to the new year that you will be scheduling requests. For example, if you are scheduling requests for the 2026-2027 school year, you will want to be sure the year displayed in the pull-down is 2026-2027.
Mass Adding Requests to a Group of Students
Go to Scheduling > Mass Request.
In the Request(s) to Add pull-down, select one or multiple courses.
Alternatively, click the Choose link.
In the pop-up window, click the Subject and Course.
After clicking the course in the pop-up window, the course will be selected in the Request(s) to Add pull-down.
Note: The Request(s) to Add pull-down is a select-multiple; selecting a course using the Choose link will add the course selection to the pull-down, along with any other previously selected courses.
If applicable, enter the Alternate Requests.
If the new alternate student course requests feature is enabled for the school, then the Elective Priority field will not display. Three "Alternate Request(s) to Add" fields will display instead, allowing up to three alternates to be designated. These selections will display in the Alternate Course 1, Alternate Course 2, and Alternate Course 3 fields on the Student Requests screen.
Select the Inclusion check box if all the students you will select from the search criteria need to be scheduled into an inclusion section as well as the primary section of the course. Be careful that you only select the students in the list that need both the inclusion section and the primary section of the course. You will need to do a separate search and mass request for students who do not need inclusion.
Note: When the students are scheduled, the system will look for sections that were set up with an inclusion section in Courses & Sections, and will only schedule the students into the section that has an inclusion section attached. If there are no inclusion sections attached to primary sections, the students will not be scheduled into the course.
Select Schedule First if the Scheduler should attempt to schedule this request first before all other requests not marked as Schedule First. 
Select Do Not Schedule if the Scheduler should not schedule this course request.
When this option is enabled, the course request will have the "Don't Schedule" option enabled on the Student Requests screen.
Select Allow Elective Alternates to allow the course to be replaced by a global alternate request if the course cannot be scheduled. 
If applicable, select teacher and period restrictions in the With and Without Teacher and Period pull-downs.
At the bottom of the screen, enter search criteria to locate the group of students. You can use More Search Options to search by grade level, schedule, grades, test scores, special programs, or any other data collected on a student.
Once the course request information and the student search information has been added, click Search.
Select each student in the search results that the course request(s) will be added to, or select the check box in the column header to select all students in the list. Click Submit Request to add the request(s) to the selected students.
A green check mark and confirmation message will display for a few seconds, indicating the course requests have been added to the selected students.
Mass Drop Requests from a Group of Students
Note: If you are dropping a course request for students and also adding a course request to the same students, the Replace functionality can be used. See next section.
To Mass Drop a Group of students, you will follow the same exact instructions in the section above for Mass Adding Requests except you will use the Drop tab and enter the course(s) you want to drop.
Replace a Course Request for a Group of Students
When a course request needs to be dropped from a group of students and replaced with a different course request, the Replace tab can be used to complete this all in one process.
In the Scheduling menu, click Mass Requests.
Click the Replace tab.
In the Request to Drop pull-down, select the course request that will be dropped.
In the Request(s) to Add pull-down, select the course request(s) to add. One or multiple courses can be selected.
Alternatively, click the Choose link.
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In the pop-up window, click the Subject and Course. After clicking the course in the pop-up window, the course will be selected in the Request to Drop or Request(s) to Add pull-down.
See the instructions in the section above for Mass Adding Requests for guidance on the remainder of the settings and selection of students.