The Office of the Registrar will be closed between Monday, December 20 through Wednesday, January 1 for the winter break.
Drop/Add Process
Students must first click the "Enroll Me" button in their WesPortal before they will be permitted to participate in drop/add.
Important Drop/Add Resources:
- Video Guide to Drop/Add
- Drop/Add Frequently Asked Questions
- FAQ Guide for students, faculty, and advisors
Drop/Add Basics
- Refer to the Academic Calendar for the drop/add dates each semester.
- Students may enroll in up to 4.0 full-credit courses (courses 1.0 credit or higher), excluding tutorials and private music lessons.
- Partial-credit courses (courses less than 1.0 credit) do not count towards the credit limit.
- If a student wants to take more than 4.00 full-credit courses, they may ask their advisor for approval, which if approved, must be increased by the advisor via the drop/add system.
- An e-mail notification system informs students, faculty and advisors of daily drop/add activity.
- The ranked drop/add requests which students made during pre-registration will appear in the drop/add system and are used by instructors to admit students to courses.
- Students may also make unranked drop/add requests once drop/add opens (see below for more details.)
- Instructors determine who may be admitted to the course, meaning all enrollments require instructor approval.
- Instructors may drop students who do not attend the first class meeting.
- Advisors can approve individual drops and adds.
- Permission of Instructor and Pre-requisite Override requests are NOT available during drop/add, as all requests require instructor approval.
- Crosslistings and GenEd Designations must be chosen by the end of drop/add.
- When a 2nd/4th Quarter course has multiple general educational area assignments (NSM, SBS, HA), a student must select one general education area assignment during the five working days following the first class meeting by submitting an academic schedule change form via WesPortal.
- Student forums are processed outside of the drop/add system.
- Teaching Apprentice (TA) Tutorials are processed outside of the drop/add system.
Drop/Add Request Limit to Unranked Requests
- In addition to the ranked drop/add requests submitted during pre-registration, students are be able to submit a max of six unranked course requests.
- Students can submit multiple sections of one course.
- Once a student reaches the limit of six, the "Add to My Courses" button no longer appears for courses in Drop/Add.
- An outstanding request will need to be canceled to submit an additional request.
Schedule Confirmation
- Students can confirm their schedules as early as the first day of drop/add.
- Changes made via drop/add will reflect in a student's class schedule in WesPortal the day after a change is made.
For Students
- Students can confirm their schedules during the drop/add period.
- Once a schedule is confirmed:
- no additional requests can be submitted,
- any pending requests can no longer be approved by the professors, and
- enrolled courses cannot be dropped.
- If additional changes are required, a student can un-confirm their schedule.
- These changes are dynamic.
- Once a schedule is confirmed:
- If a student has reached the maximum number of drop/add requests and/or has confirmed their schedule, the student can still:
- submit tutorial requests
- cancel requests
- change crosslisting
- change grading mode
- change GenEd designation
- Consider deleting any pending enrollment requests so that you no longer appear in the instructor's enrollment request list.
For Instructors
- In course management, students who have confirmed their schedules will be marked as such and can no longer be added to the class list.
- You are welcome to email them to see if they are still interested in the class. If they are, they can un-confirm their schedule so that you can add them to the class.
Other Resources
- DROP/ADD GENERAL FAQ
- DROP/ADD FAQ FOR STUDENTS
- DROP/ADD FAQ FOR INSTRUCTORS
- DROP/ADD FAQ FOR ADVISORS
- ACADEMIC CALENDAR
- TUTORIAL FAQ
- TUTORIAL STATUS EXPLANATIONS
- APPROVED STUDENT FORUMS
Post-Drop/Add
Grading mode changes for student option courses
- Grading mode changes for Student Option graded, non-tutorial courses may be changed until the grading mode change deadline via WesPortal>Courses>Schedule.
All other changes
- Changes made on the last day of drop/add, will not appear on the Class Schedule until the next day.
- Students should wait for the overnight refresh to occur before confirming the accuracy of their schedules and/or submitting any late change requests.
- Any other post-drop/add changes must be made via the Academic Change form options via a student's class schedule.
- These links will not be available until drop/add closes.
Please direct inquiries concerning drop/add to the Registrar's Office.