FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR STUDENTS

• Do I or my advisor need to take action if my latest course enrollment exceeds my credit limit?

• Do I need to attend the first class meeting of a course that I am already enrolled in?

• Do I need to submit a Drop/Add enrollment request if I submitted a POI/PreReq request during Pre-Registration?

• Can I participate in Drop/Add if I have a hold?

• Can I submit an enrollment request for a course that I dropped?

• How can I reach the registration help line?

• If I create an enrollment request for a course and a space becomes available, will I automatically get a seat?

• When will I be able to add ranked enrollment requests?

• What if I want to add more than four enrollment requests?

• How do I access drop/add?

• How do I add an unranked enrollment request during drop/add?

• How do I know if the instructor has added me to the class?

• What will happen if the instructor does not add me to the class?

• How will I know when the advisor has approved my adds?

• What happens if I try to add a course that is over my credit limit?

• Why is a course that I added during pre-registration appearing in red in my schedule with the words "advisor disapproved"?

• How do I drop a course?

• How do I change the grading mode or cross-listing for a course?

• Is there a restriction on the kind of classes I can submit enrollment requests for?

• Will the drop/add system check to make sure that I have met the course prerequisites?

• Are faculty members required to use enrollment requests to determine who should be allowed into the course?

• Do I need to attend the first class meeting of a class that I have added as an enrollment request?

• I'm a TA this semester.  How do I add a Teaching Apprentice tutorial (491 or 492) to my schedule?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR INSTRUCTORS

• Do students need to submit a Drop/Add enrollment request if they submitted a POI/PreReq request during Pre-Registration?

• Can a student submit an enrollment request for a course that was dropped?

• How can I reach the registration help line?

• Will students get added to a class list automatically from the enrollment request list?

• How do instructors utilize the enrollment request lists?

• Can instructors tell students who are pre-registered for their class that they must come to the first class meeting?

• Can instructors tell students who have submitted enrollment requests for their class that they must come to the first class meeting?

• Can I tell students who would like to be admitted to my class that they must attend the first class meeting in order to be admitted?

• How will the add process work for students who were not eligible to select the course during pre-registration due to class year exclusions? Will there be any additional paperwork to fill out?  

• How does an instructor add a student to his/her class if they have promised the student a seat through e-mail or in person?

• How do I navigate to the drop/add information in my portfolio?

• Where can I view a list of students who have requested to be added to my class?

• What steps do I take to add a student to my class?

• How do I drop a student who fails to attend the first day and does not communicate with me prior to the first day (consistent with the EPC statement on attendance)?

• When will I know if a student's advisor has approved or disapproved the add?

• Does the system screen students for prerequisites, majors, or class standing?

• Can I indicate that my course is closed and I won't be admitting any students unless someone drops the course?

• A student will be auditing my course.  How do I add the student to the course so that the notation can appear on his/her transcript?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR ADVISORS

• Do I or my advisee need to take action if their latest course enrollment exceeds their credit limit?

• Can a student submit an enrollment request for a course that was dropped?

• How can I reach the registration help line?

• How will advising be preserved if the instructors can directly admit students to classes?

• How will advisors be able to handle the volume of transactions for their advisees?

• How is this process an improvement for advisors?

• How do I navigate to drop/add advising in my electronic portfolio?

• How do I approve an add or drop?

• How do I indicate to my advisee that I would like to discuss a request before taking any action?

• How do I disapprove an add or drop?

• Why do I see "Instructor Drop" next to the student's course?

• How do I override the credit limit for my advisee?

• Why is a course appearing in red in my advisee's schedule with the words "advisor disapproved"?  Because this course was already in my advisee's schedule, I couldn't take any action to approve or disapprove it during drop/add.  Now my advisee would like to drop the course and isn't able to.

• Why is there a need for backup advising?

• What is the role of a backup advisor?

• How will backup advisors be assigned?

• Can a primary advisor change their backup advisor assignment?

• Will advisees know who their backup advisors are?