For Courses

How space is assigned

Academic departments, building schedulers, and the Registrar's Office Classrooms team coordinate FAS course locations. Several factors determine course locations, including: 

• Instructional requirements 
• Technology needs
• Enrollment history 
• Accessibility needs of instructors and students
• Room availability

The Registrar's Office Classrooms team shares a Course Meetings Location Report daily during the start of term (changes or additions may take up to 24 hours to appear on this list). We also maintain an archive of course meeting reports (Note: Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 courses were taught remotely due to COVID-19 pandemic).  

Space for Courses (Lecture, Seminar, etc.)

1. Instructors communicate their classroom needs to their department scheduler.
2. Schedulers identify the right space via the online inventory of FAS classrooms
3. Schedulers submit room preferences using the space scheduling software, EMS, several months before the start of each term.
4. We send tentative room assignments to each department.
5. Departments review tentative assignments.
6. We notify faculty of their classroom assignment.
7. We post course locations in my.harvard on the first day of course registration.

Request a Classroom Change

• We will not reassign classrooms until after the registration deadline.
• If you have an urgent need to change classrooms, contact the Registrar's Office Classrooms team.

Reservation Time Frames

Room reservations run through the last day of classes. After that, all FAS classrooms are reserved exclusively for the Registrar's Office Exams team.