The short forms you meet on a class schedule, a room sign, or a
building directory, each with where you will see it.
These meanings are how Room TBA’s own data and pages use each term. They
are not an official university glossary. If one is wrong or missing, use
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To be announced. A class whose room or time shows TBA in AMIS has not been assigned one yet. It is also where Room TBA gets its name.
A schedule or room cell that reads TBA
AMIS
The Academic Management Information System, the university system that holds class schedules and enrollment. Room TBA imports class rows from it.
Every class row in the app
LEC, LAB, RCT, SEM
Activity types: lecture, laboratory, recitation, seminar. The full list of twelve is explained in the section-times guide.
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about LEC, LAB, RCT, SEM
The type of a class
Section
The code after a course number, such as B, ST, or AB2R. For regular lectures the letters encode the day group and start time.
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about Section
The section column of a class
AB, ST, UV and other letter pairs
Two-letter lecture sections made of adjacent time blocks, for example A and B together. A to H are Wednesday and Friday blocks, and S to Z are the same clock times on Tuesday and Thursday.
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about AB, ST, UV and other letter pairs
A building attached to or beside a main college building, often numbered, such as CAS Annex 1.
CAS Annex 1, CDC Annex 2
Room code
The building or unit prefix followed by the room number, for example CEM 101. Room TBA matches spellings that differ only by spaces, dashes, or case.
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about Room code
Search results and class rows
ABC
The Agricultural and Biological Chemistry Building.
ABC 161
ASI
The Agricultural Systems Institute Building.
ASI 231
FBS
The Forestry Biological Sciences Building, up at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources.
