Shell Structure

All human-created shells should be of the form:

<Three-character prefix>_<Campus designator>_<Description>
or
<Three-character prefix>_<Campus designator>_<Description>_<optional term>

Reserved Prefixes:

CSC     - for combined section courses
IMP     - for internal use (import shells)
SSC     - for single-section courses
TEM     - for campus template course shells

Allowed Prefixes:

CRS     - primary/exclusively for institutional training/evaluation shells
DEP     - for courses/ORGs for campus divisions - "Departments" etc.
DEV     - for development shells
NCC     - for non-credit course shells (those not generated by the SIS)
ORG     - for Organizations
PRA     - for development/"practice"/training shells

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The Campus designators are the familiar single-character abbreviations
(the veteran staff may know them as the SFOEs)

A - UMA
F - UMF
K – UMFK
I – UMPI
M - UMM
O - UM
P – USM
U – University System-Wide
... with the occasion accommodations
S - [now] University Services
X - UMS-external
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