Progress report: online registration
Meredith Clinton
Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: News
This Spring semester will be the first in which all of the College's students register for their classes via web registration. Last Fall there was a pilot where a handful of students from each class was selected to participate along with a few professors. In a Web Registration Update meeting last Fri., Feb. 1, administrators, faculty and students gave their feedback and progress reports.
The meeting was attended by the following faculty, staff and students: Sharon Albert, Visiting Lecturer for Religious Studies; Dr. Jane Flood, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Physics; Dr. David Nelson, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science; Debbie Tamte-Horan, Registrar; Karen Schall, Assistant Registrar; Carol Shiner Wilson, Dean of the College for Academic Life and Assistant Professor of Humanities; Harry Miller, Director of Information Technology; John Wardenski, Consultant from NCMS; Jane Hudak, Dean of the Wescoe School; Ellen Pothering, Controller; Meghan Wilson '09, and Laura Winger '10.
To begin conversation everyone was asked to share the experiences they had in using the new program for registration. Students thought that the implemented program was very intuitive, easy to follow with its step-by-step instructions, and a preferable alternative to sitting in the Haas stairwell at 5:00 a.m.
As for the meetings with academic advisors, the process will remain the same, and it is absolutely imperative that students are aware of the advisor with which they are correlated in the system. Signatures can no longer be forged, and students must get signed off by all advisors; meaning that if you are a double major, both advisors need to be met with in order to be able to register. Students will still be held fully accountable for keeping track of their academic progress with general requirements and major requirements, as well as the number of credits they have accumulated. The new online program will not be responsible for making sure students are up-to-date on this kind of information.
The meeting was attended by the following faculty, staff and students: Sharon Albert, Visiting Lecturer for Religious Studies; Dr. Jane Flood, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Physics; Dr. David Nelson, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science; Debbie Tamte-Horan, Registrar; Karen Schall, Assistant Registrar; Carol Shiner Wilson, Dean of the College for Academic Life and Assistant Professor of Humanities; Harry Miller, Director of Information Technology; John Wardenski, Consultant from NCMS; Jane Hudak, Dean of the Wescoe School; Ellen Pothering, Controller; Meghan Wilson '09, and Laura Winger '10.
To begin conversation everyone was asked to share the experiences they had in using the new program for registration. Students thought that the implemented program was very intuitive, easy to follow with its step-by-step instructions, and a preferable alternative to sitting in the Haas stairwell at 5:00 a.m.
As for the meetings with academic advisors, the process will remain the same, and it is absolutely imperative that students are aware of the advisor with which they are correlated in the system. Signatures can no longer be forged, and students must get signed off by all advisors; meaning that if you are a double major, both advisors need to be met with in order to be able to register. Students will still be held fully accountable for keeping track of their academic progress with general requirements and major requirements, as well as the number of credits they have accumulated. The new online program will not be responsible for making sure students are up-to-date on this kind of information.