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Registrar develops waitlist system
Students to receive e-mail notifications about class availability
By Ethan Klapper on 4/3/08
AU students will now be able to place their names on an automated waitlist for closed course sections during registration, the Office of the Registrar announced Tuesday.
Students will be able to place their names on the waitlist on my.american.edu, according to an e-mail the Office of the Registrar sent to students
The system will create a waitlist as soon as an open section closes for the first time. Should a space become available, the first student on the waitlist will receive an e-mail at 6 p.m. notifying him of the available space. This student has 24 hours to register in the section. If he fails to register for this spot during the 24-hour period, then the next student on the waitlist will receive an e-mail notifying him that a space has become available. He will also have 24 hours to register, according to an e-mail the registrar's office sent to AU students.
Although a section that was previously closed will say "OPEN" on the Registrar's schedule of classes, it will have a waitlist and a student will have to put his name on the waitlist in order to register for the section, Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail.
University Registrar Linda Bolden-Pitcher said they developed the new technology so students could enroll in closed course sections and to give the university's different schools a better idea of which classes are more popular and need to have additional sections, according to the e-mail.
Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail that the university administration wanted them to create a new system for years.
"This is a service the administration has desired for several years now, but it became possible with the upgrade of our student system, Datatel's Colleague, last summer," she said in the e-mail. "We were fortunate to work with the OIT staff, who dedicated many hours to making this process available to students via the Web registration system."
Students will need to use the waitlist system if they want to enroll in a closed course section, Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail.
Students will be able to place their names on the waitlist on my.american.edu, according to an e-mail the Office of the Registrar sent to students
The system will create a waitlist as soon as an open section closes for the first time. Should a space become available, the first student on the waitlist will receive an e-mail at 6 p.m. notifying him of the available space. This student has 24 hours to register in the section. If he fails to register for this spot during the 24-hour period, then the next student on the waitlist will receive an e-mail notifying him that a space has become available. He will also have 24 hours to register, according to an e-mail the registrar's office sent to AU students.
Although a section that was previously closed will say "OPEN" on the Registrar's schedule of classes, it will have a waitlist and a student will have to put his name on the waitlist in order to register for the section, Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail.
University Registrar Linda Bolden-Pitcher said they developed the new technology so students could enroll in closed course sections and to give the university's different schools a better idea of which classes are more popular and need to have additional sections, according to the e-mail.
Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail that the university administration wanted them to create a new system for years.
"This is a service the administration has desired for several years now, but it became possible with the upgrade of our student system, Datatel's Colleague, last summer," she said in the e-mail. "We were fortunate to work with the OIT staff, who dedicated many hours to making this process available to students via the Web registration system."
Students will need to use the waitlist system if they want to enroll in a closed course section, Bolden-Pitcher said in an e-mail.
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