ONLINE REGISTRATION

Table of Contents

 

  1. Logging into the online system 1
  2. Registration – Add classes, make changes 2
  3. Registration Error Messages 3-4
  4. Wait Lists 3-4
  5. Exception Form 5
  6. Making Changes to Registration 5-6
  7. Looking up Classes 7
  8. Other Registration Options 8
  9. Exiting from the Registration System 9

1. Logging into the Online System

If using a PC, use Internet Explorer versions 4 and higher; if using MAC, use Safari versions 1.3 and higher. Log into the Wellesley College’s Homepage, http://www.wellesley.edu. Click on the title Especially for…Students. Choose Banner Self Service.
This will bring you to the "Access to Grades, etc. is available by clicking here" page.

After clicking as directed you will be able to log in at "Students, Faculty and Staff-Click Here to Log In." Enter your User ID and Pin number to proceed.

LOGIN:

In order to gain entry to the secured areas of the menu:

Enter your ID Number in the User ID Field

Enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number) in the second field

Click on LOGIN.

Each term students must acknowledge that they are responsible for the cost of their education. If you have not already done so, you will be prompted to do so before you can proceed with registration. Check the "I Agree" circle, and Click on Done to continue.

Please take care when entering your ID and PIN number. Entering the wrong PIN or ID number 8 times disables your account. If your account has been disabled, you must come into the Registrar’s office with proper ID to have your account reactivated. If you have forgotten your pin number, click on the "Forgot Pin?" button on the login page to answer your personal security question, (which you have previously set up), to access your account.

2. Registering for Classes

From the Student Services & Financial Aid Menu

Click on Registration

Click on Register for Classes

From the pull-down menu, choose the term. (ex. Fall 2008/Spring 2009)

Click on Submit Term

Click on Register for Classes

Registering for courses for the first time

A blank registration form titled "Add Class" appears. You may begin the registration process by placing your cursor in the first CRN field and typing in your first CRN.

Moving your cursor with the mouse or the tab key, continue to insert CRNs in each of the blocks until you have recorded all of your course selections, including lab, conference and discussion sections.

When all of your CRNs are recorded, click on Submit Changes. If you do not, NO COURSES WILL BE ADDED.

The registration results appear and may include courses for which you are registered successfully and courses in which an error was encountered, with options for resolution.

Courses for which the registration is successful appear first.

There are 10 columns of information for each course:

Status - The fact that you are Web Registered appears here.

Action – If registration is successful, then the word "None" appears, indicating that no further action is required.

CRN

Subject

Course Number

Section

Level (this appears even though all except Post Bacs will see "Undergraduate")

Credit

Grade Mode (this distinguishes between taking a course for a grade and credit/non)

Title

Closed courses and those for which errors were encountered appear next, in a Registration Errors section. If you wish to be waitlisted, you must add yourself to the waitlist* using the action column. If you exit the registration process and do nothing about the errors or closed courses, the courses listed will disappear and it will be as if you never attempted to register for them in the first place. To select another course, see section VI.

How To Put Yourself On A Waitlist If One Is Available:

The action column has a pull-down menu with the following options: 1. None 2. Web Drop and 3. Web Wait List*. If you wish to add yourself to the waitlist, click on the triangle next to the action column until the Web Wait List option is highlighted and then click on the Submit Changes button. (If you do not click on this button, you will not be waitlisted.)

*Note: Be sure to read the paragraph on waitlists under #4.

3. Error Messages and Possible Actions (See V. for fuller explanations)

STATUS MESSAGE

EXPLANATION AND ACTION

CLASS RESTRICTION

The enrollment is based on class year. Select another course or fill out the exception form and submit it to the Registrar’s Office.

CLOSED SECTION or

CLOSED –NN WAITLISTED**

 

 

OPEN-SECTION-X

Enrollment limit has been reached. Select another course or add yourself to the waitlist (see wait list policy). NN WAITLISTED is the number of students already waitlisted. If you add yourself to the waitlist***, your waitlist number will be one more than this number. *****Only if a waitlist is available

Enrollment limit has been reached because the course is linked to another section.  The max has been reached for the combined sections.

MAJOR RESTRICTION

Enrollment is based on declared major. Select another course or fill out the exception form to clarify your major at the Registrar’s Office.

DUPLICATE CRN

You have added the same CRN twice. Web Drop this one.

LINK_ERROR TYPE XX REG

You have selected a course that requires lab or conference sections or vice versa. Add the course CRN again, along with the lab or conference section. One will not be accepted as registered without the other. If all labs or conferences are full, fill out an exception form and submit it to the Registrar’s Office.

 

STATUS MESSAGE

EXPLANATION AND ACTION

 

MAXIMUM HOURS EXCEEDED

You cannot override the credit limit so you may not register for any more courses.

REPEAT COUNT EXCEEDS 0

You cannot authorize a repeated course so fill out an exception form and submit it to the Registrar’s Office.

TIME CONFLICT WITH CRN #12345

You must select courses that do not conflict.

INSTRUCTOR CONSENT REQUIRED

Fill out an exception form and submit it to Registrar’s Office after it has been signed by the instructor.

4. Wait Lists

Waitlists will be available for some labs, conferences and discussions.

5. Exception Form

Certain registration actions cannot be done online.

Course requires a signature: Click on the link to the Exception form, print the form and get the required signature. Then bring the completed form to the Registrar’s Office for manual entry into the computer system. Professors may use the electronic override process in place of the paper exception form.

Repeat Count exceeds 0: this type of error message occurs for two reasons: 1) a student has taken the course previously, possibly withdrew or failed the course, and wishes to take the course again, or 2) this is a topics course and the topic has changed. This needs to be manually investigated in the Registrar’s Office, so print out the Exception form, note the course you want to repeat and submit the form to the Registrar’s Office.

Linked Courses: if all the labs/conferences/discussions are full in a course that requires both a lecture and a lab/conference/discussion, you must to fill out the exception form to have the course and lab waitlist added manually in the Registrar’s office.

Class Restriction: some departments restrict a course to a specific class or classes, but do allow students in other classes to register if they get approval from the department. You should submit the exception form with the appropriate signature to the Registrar’s Office.

6. Making Changes To Your Course Schedule

(During the time the online system is open to your class or open to all students.)

From the Registration Menu

Click on Registration for Classes

Scroll down through the text to reveal your Current Schedule.

If dropping a course from your current schedule, click on the pull down menu in the action column to the left of the course and select WEB DROP. Click on Submit Changes to drop course from your schedule.

If adding a course, scroll down to the Add Class portion of the screen. Proceed as you did with your original registration by typing in the CRNs you want to add.

Click on Submit Changes to add the course(s).

By checking your Current Schedule on the screen and looking at the Status blocks you can see the courses for which you are registered and those that are wait listed.

Caution: Before Add/Drop at the beginning of the semester, students may not register and wait list themselves for more than a combined total of 4.75 units.   During Add/Drop at the beginning of the semester, the upper classes may register for a maximum of 5.75 units.  First Year students may register for a maximum of 4.75 units during their first semester.

 

7. Using The "Look Up Class To Add" Function and Search Capability

If you do not know the CRNs or do not have a printed copy of the schedule available, use the following instructions to find classes for your schedule.

From the Registration Menu

Click on Look Up Class To Add

This form allows you to search the class schedule using any of the selection options provided. For example, you can search for all Economics classes which meet at 9:50 on Monday. Please note that a subject area must be selected regardless of other criteria. Also note that session is not a meaningful field on our schedule. When you have completed your selection criteria click on Get Classes; this form returns the classes which have met your selection criteria.

If you find a course or courses that meet your needs and you wish to add it/ them to your schedule, click on the check box to the left of the course. When adding classes, you may click either the Register or the Add to Worksheet button. Both of these buttons will bring you to the Add/Drop Classes page.

If you want to WEB Wait list yourself for a lab, discussion, or conference, click on the Add to Worksheet button and type in the CRN number of the lab, discussion or conference as well as the matching lecture and Submit changes. You may also WEB Wait List yourself by using the pull-down menu in the action column as described on page three. You must add both components of the lab, discussion or conference and the matching lecture at the same time.

The Register button will process all registration error checking and add the classes to your registration. The Add to worksheet button will put the classes into the registration form of the Add/Drop Classes page and allow you to continue selecting classes by clicking on Class Search and following the procedure above. Once you have selected your class (es) you must click on Submit Changes.

8. Other Registration Menu Items:

Student Schedule by Day & Time

Displays your schedule online by day and time. Courses for which you are waitlisted appear on this schedule and this may cause some confusion. The detail schedule gives you the registration status for each course. (This may be printed from your browser’s print function using landscape format)

Student Detail Schedule

Displays your schedule online in more detail (This may be printed from your browser’s print function landscape format)

 

9. Exiting from the Online Registration System

Click on the Menu or Exit button at the top of the form when you are finished with your registration.

***Remember to EXIT when you are finished with your registration and close your browser for added security. ***





Email: regoffice@wellesley.edu
Registrar's Office: August 22, 2005
Last Modified:
March
27 , 2008
Expires:
Jan 1, 2010
Maintained by: C. Voorhees