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How to Submit Section Choices via the Student Information System (SIS)
Religion 121 (Biblical Studies) or Writing 111 (First Year Writing)

Fall Semester, 2012-2013

 

New Student Religion 121 / Writing 111 Course Submission Period OPENS on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 12:00 noon and will CLOSE on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.

• New students will register for all remaining fall semester, 2012-2013 courses on Tuesday, September 4, 2012.

Questions?  Contact Cheryl LaCroix, lacroix@stolaf.edu, 507-786-6797

 

Read registration instructions carefully before starting registration process. You are registering for either fall semester Religion 121 or Writing 111 only. You may print these instructions for easy referral when completing the registration process.

The day and time you submit your section choices for Religion 121 or Writing 111 does NOT affect your ability to add a particular section. Students are assigned a random registration number and after the course submission period has closed on July 31student registrations will be run in numerical order.

Step 1: Log into the SIS (https://www.stolaf.edu/sis/login.cfm)

• If you have holds, you must click on each hold link and submit information to remove the holds before you will have access to the course submission system.

• Under Student (left-hand menu), click on REGISTRATION.
• APPROVED MUSIC MAJORS will see Music 112 course has been added to your fall semester registration. If your holds were still active on Monday, July 23, your music 112 registration could not be added. Remove your holds and email lacroix@stolaf.edu informing me that your holds are taken care of. I will then add your Music 112 to your fall semester registration.
• GREAT CONVERSATION STUDENTS DO NOT need to do anything with the course submission process. Your Great Con registration will be added when student registrations are run.
• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DO NOT need to do anything with the course submission process. You will be taking a writing placement test on Saturday, September 3 to determine which writing course is best for you.
• AMERICAN CONVERSATION STUDENTS need to look to see if they have been assigned to take REL 121 in fall semster. Follow step 2. If REL 121 sections are not listed in the course boxes, you will wait until spring semester to take REL 121. Your American Con registration will be added when student registrations are run.

Step 2: Checking Your Assigned Course Category

• New students have been randomly divided into one of two course categories, Religion 121 or Writing 111.  Exempt from this random dividing are students accepted into American Conversations, Great Conversation, and International students. 
• To see which course category you have been placed in, click on ADD NEW SCHEDULE button.  Students accepted into American Con and Great Con will see their pre-registered Conversation course listed as “Required Class” under the column marked “Course”.  All other students will see this “Course” column as blank course slots.
• Pull down the first menu in the first blank slot to see your assigned course and pool of available section choices.  You will only see one course, Religion 121 or Writing 111, listed with many sections 121A, 121B, etc. or 111A, 111B, etc.
• Click on RETURN TO SCHEDULE LIST.

Step 3: Reviewing the Section Descriptions for Religion 121 or Writing 111

• You can access the sections descriptions of Religion 121 or Writing 111 online by clicking these links. A new window in your browser will open. You can also find the descriptions at http://www.stolaf.edu/offices/registrar/descriptions.html
• Religion 121 and Writing 111 offer multiple sections of each course.  Each section is taught by a different instructor, offered on different days/times, and has a different theme or topic of study.  You must review the section descriptions of your assigned course and choose sections that are of interest to you.
• While you read through the section descriptions, select FIVE (5) - EIGHT (8) different section options.  If you are interested in a theme or topic offered in multiple sections, count each individual section that offers this theme as a separate course choice. You are required to have multiple section choices so one of your section choices will be added to your fall semester registration. Review instructions in Step 4 before you add your section choices into the Student Information System (SIS).
• Enrollment is limited in each section offered so the more choices you have, the more information the registration system has to work with. 

Step 4: Add a New Schedule: 

After seeing your assigned course category, reviewing the section descriptions, and selecting your section choices, you are now ready to add course schedules into registration.   

• Click on ADD A NEW SCHEDULE.
• Pick your highest-priority course choice from your potential class pool. 
• Click SAVE AND VALIDATE SCHEDULE.  Read any messages that appear in the box above the schedule.  If the message indicates a problem, delete the problem course and choose a different course from the pull-down menu. 
• Only ONE Writing or Religion course should be listed in each course schedule you add.
  • Do not add more than one section to each course schedule or you will have an invalid or "bad" schedule.
  • If you receive time conflict message (Music students only), add a different section choice.
• Each course schedule should total 1.00 course credit. 
  • Approved music students will have MUSIC 111 & 113 plus one section choice of their assigned Religion or Writing course listed in each individual course schedule totaling 2.00 course credits.
• Click RETURN TO SCHEDULE LIST after saving and validating each course schedule you add
• Examples of an indiviudal course schedules

Step 5: Add Alternate Schedules

• To add additional schedules, REPEAT STEP 4.
• You should add 5 – 8 different course schedules.  Courses listed in boldface are new options; they do not repeat a course that is in a previous schedule.  Courses not in boldface repeat a course listed in a previous schedule. 
• Courses with multiple sections:  If there are multiple offerings of a specific section that interests you (indicated by a capital letter following the three-digit course number), ADD EACH SECTION into a separate course schedule. 
• To see your chosen courses in schedule format, click on RETURN TO SCHEDULE LIST.  From there, to edit the same schedule, click on the “Edit” button (under “Action,” the paper and pencil icon).  To delete a schedule, click on the red X on the right of the schedule.
• You may rank your schedules in order of preference but clicking the up and down arrows. Example of schedule list.
• To COPY a course schedule, under “Action,” click on the middle icon (looks like two sheets of paper);
• To EDIT, click on the left icon (paper + pencil).
• REMOVE courses you no longer want by pulling down the menu and clicking on the line that shows as –
• ADD additional courses by pulling down the menu and clicking on the desired course.
• Remember to SAVE AND VALIDATE SCHEDULE after creating each new schedule and before logging out of the system.  Do remember to log out!

Step 6: Enrollment Inquiry and Projected Registration Tracking Tools

• Enrollment Inquiry Tool: To see how many students are attempting to add a specific section of Religion or Writing and see how many spaces are avialable in each section, click on ENROLLMENTS in the Tool menu on the left-side column. Be sure to set the year/term as 2011-2012, Semester I and select either Religion or Writing for the department search.
• Look at the ATT, ENR, and MAX columns for date on how many students have submitted a section ion as their choice, how many students may potentially add the section, and the maximum number of available spaces in the section. This data will help you decide if you want to submit certain sections as choices or if you will have greater success in choice alternate section choices. Remember, enrollments are limited in Religion and Writing so you need to be flexible in your section choices.
• Projected Registration Tool: Use the projected registration tool (updated every hour during open course submission period) at the bottom of the schedules page to get a sense of how your choices relate to those of all other students who have submitted section choices.  This tool will activate once students begin to submit their section choices into the SIS.
• The projected registration tool will list how many spaces are in each of your section choices and your ranking within each choice (i.e., 11/19) The numerator would be your spot in the course if registration were run right now; the denominator is the maximum number of students allowed in the course during web registration.
• If a course is in high demand, or if it appears that you could easily be bumped from a course if later submitters want the same course and have a more favorable registration number, plan to provide some additional section option.
• If you add additional schedules based on the Tracking Tool, do not delete previous schedules!  You want to keep as many options available as possible.
• CHECK BACK PERIODICALLY while the course submission period is open, to see if any adjustments need to be made as more students submit their section choices.

**Even if the tracking tool suggests you might get into a certain set of courses, make sure you keep sufficient alternate section choices in your list of schedules!  Do not delete a schedule unless you know you are not interested in that dection.**

THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT REGISTRATIONs WILL RUN FOR YOU IN EXACTLY THE WAY IT APPEARS ON THE PROJECTED REGISTRATION TRACKING TOOL, EVEN IF YOU CHECK IT SHORTLY BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THE COURSE SUBMISSION PERIOD.  The tracking tool is based on already-entered data only. Even a few changes at the last minute can change the results.  This tool is intended to provide information about a particular point in time, not a guarantee of your result.

See:  “Tips for a Successful Registration”

If you have questions about the registrations process, please contact Cheryl LaCroix or Registrar's Office