Initials Workshop Registration Made Easy

Initials workshop registration

hi my name is Martina and I'm Miley and I'm Irene and today we are going to go over the next steps that you should take to enroll in the upcoming semester so I will go over the admissions Chaves the admitted student checklist so by now hopefully you have received this lovely folder from our admissions office if you did not receive this you should contact the admissions office to get this or your application may not be completed so either way contact them to figure out what your status is but if you don't have this or if you do have this inside this is what we will be focusing on today the actual checklist but you don't you can follow along on our website by going to Manoa edu slash admissions and if you go to prospective student undergraduate and admitted that will take you to everything that I'm going to cover it here ok so we're gonna go straight down so the first step that you should do as soon as possible it's create your my UAH account now this my you H account will be your hub to everything University related this is how you will communicate with your future faculty as well as your staff this is where it's basically the portal to everything that that you H has to offer now my pro tip to you is when you choose your username choose it wisely because that will be yours forever and it should be professional ish so like gamer boy 1 2 3 4 example would probably not be the wisest email our username for you no offense if that is your you're actually know ok so after you create your my you H portal are your username that will get you into the portal through there that's where you can check your status for financial aid I deaf we recommend applying the FAFSA is is open for the current spring upcoming spring semester as was next school year as well so if you haven't done so already go to FAFSA FA FS a govt to complete it online it is a free service and you will just have to put you H mono school code for that our school code is zero zero one six one zero but you can also search us through the FAFSA now keep in mind it's thought govt if you go to comm that is a mistake that's that's a scam website so it's the back out now even if you do not think you will be eligible for financial aid you should definitely do the FAFSA anyway because of the majority of our scholarships will require the FAFSA for verification purposes but also by going through the checklist you can apply for scholarships through that and we make it as convenient as possible so we have the general University scholarships it's one application that will qualify you for from many scholarships but our College sees our has our own exclusive scholarships on top of that so definitely pay attention to your emails open up anything that you receive from us okay meet with us there's us but also the us that they're referring to on this checklist is admissions so you can participate in upcoming events we also have events so thank you for for coming today but you can also schedule a campus tour so if you are a potential student coming from out of state there's an additional sign-up to view the resident halls if you're planning to stay on campus but on top of the the general tour that the university puts on which is great you can also sign up to see our college specifically which is much better not I'm just kidding okay now the next step is to submit your tuition deposit please keep in mind that the tuition deposit is non-refundable and it is 200 others this is not an additional expense that goes on top of your tuition this will go this will knock off some of that within your tuition it is applied to it but only commit or only submit the tuition deposit once you know that you would like to enroll at Manoa for sure okay because it is non-refundable so again if you are interested in student housing or living on campus there is a separate application for that as well as a separate housing fee the housing fee is is a four hundred dollars and then you can sign up for a meal plan on that as well and then make sure that you submit any final documents so this would be if you're currently enrolled at a post-secondary institution submitting your final your final transcript or if you're in high school having your your final high school transcript sent to our admissions office it does need to be official and what that means is you never touch it it comes straight from one institution to our institution and same thing goes with any test scores that you have as well so SAT a CT for that now preparing your class schedule you do that through the star GPS which he can access through that my u.h portal but we'll go into the greater detail about that as well paying for college that's important this is why again doing your FAFSA going through the financial aid going through the scholarships that's all important we give you options to pay the tuition before the first day of class and one lump sum but you can also sign up for a payment plan the payment plans do have an initial setup fee but it is interest-free so if you would like to spread out the tuition over you know increments that is an option for you as well the health clearance you should have received the health clearance is form you do not have to do the form that's where your convenience you can submit your medical records so we do need proof that you did have a TB clearance within one year of the start date as well as mmm so you can have your your physician sign the health clearances form or you can submit your shot records to the admissions office I'm sorry to the health office and then the admissions office are the university will put on a new Student Orientation and we have our own orientation as well so you should be getting more information about that as the dates approach that's it okay so I'm going to turn it over to Irene and she will walk you through the next steps so I'm gonna start going a little bit more in depth about the questions related to advising and getting ready for your your your courses and registering for those courses so we'll go back to that checklist that Martin had so the step number seven where it talked about preparing for your class schedule so the star GPS registration Miley is going to show a demo of that and how you can add your courses but one of the things that I want to reference is in the first paragraph they have information about my you each services so you can go ahead and take a look at that let me just pull this up here we go there we go sorry about that little technical difficulty so sorry here we are back at the new student checklist step number seven preparing that class schedule so in that first paragraph it talks about your registration time and assignment and how it can be found in the my you H services so let's go ahead and go to my u H so that my u H dot Hawaii edu and you can kind of think of this as your one-stop kind of page with all the different applications that you can utilize toward your university time here so accessing your student record your financial information and it has a nice little service bar at the top where you can you can type in well what what I like to do so for today we want to do registration or actually look into registration so I'm going to type in register and the applications related to registration and registering come up to that and so let's take a look at that registration timetable so I'm going to click on that application and we have some of our spring semester information and deadlines so you can kind of scroll through right now as you can see as we're scrolling down we have our continuing students who are currently registering for courses if we continue scrolling down you should have our registration assignment for our incoming classified students to you h model and so there you can see based on how many credits you might be coming in with you do have a specific date and even a time of when you'll be able to register for courses so if you're a first-time freshman you know just coming in you're probably don't have really any earned college credits so you might be registering on that Tuesday November 27th information on like you know if you are a transfer student or ya may be a freshman who has taken some college-level classes you know determining how many credits you actually have earned would be on your my UAH information system on your star GPS you would have a transfer credit evaluation where you could see how many credits you're coming in with and you can use that to kind of verify your date and time so let's go back up to the top of the page and I want to find out a little bit more details about campus registration so I'm going to click in the far right hand top corner area campus registration information and so we are at n campus system so that's why we have information for all our different 10 campuses but you are specifically accepted to university of hawaii at manoa so we're gonna go to the you H Manoa online registration guide and this is provided through our records office so our office of the registrar they kind of keep your student record and registration is is done through them they're there where you can get your transcripts completed if you are a veteran and you're using your GI benefits or of the veteran using GI benefits the Veterans Affairs offices is through our records office as well too so let's go ahead and let's take a look at that guy - registration which is in that right column there under our academic calendar and I'm just gonna go over some steps to prepare for registration because I think it will be more helpful to actually see the steps and Miley's gonna go into a little bit more detail showing you that through a demo site that we have so let's just kind of run through those steps preparing for registration so we have it here so getting started so for registration can let the registration step-by-step how to register so here we go our registration step by step so a lot of the things that Martin actually kind of covered this actually kind of referenced in their first their first paragraph their incoming freshmen should also read the new new Rainbow Warrior checklist where it has a lot of details about you know just kind of confirming okay am I accepted have I submitted my tuition deposit number three have I cleared my holds you know so those health clearance holds did I make sure my final transcripts are on that on the way to our Office of Admissions number for checking your registration time we just saw the registration time table where you can double check that and then um you probably could could skip step number five check class schedule and availability because that's actually built in to the star GPS registration but it is still helpful to kind of see just the wealth of the courses that we do teach here at you each Manoa and the class availability can give you a little bit more details about courses like what focus requirements they might have and that sort of thing which an advisor can talk more to you about when you do meet with us but very important checking the course restrictions and prerequisites so all of our degree programs require diet well most of our degree programs I should say not all of them require precalculus or calculus math chemistry we are we do only award Bachelors of Science degrees and some of our courses require placement exams so in reviewing information related to course restrictions prerequisites you kind of want to be aware okay for certain courses do I have to take placement exams and yes some of these courses do require that so information about placement exams if we actually scroll back up to the top sorry I know information is kind of all over the place but it's all on the website but you kind of just have to click around if we scroll back up to the top in this far left hand column we have some information related to registering like there's that guy to registration so kind of toward the bottom we have information about placement exams so I kind of want to jump into that since we talked about course restrictions and prerequisites to be aware of so if you're looking at your star GPS registration which again Miley will show you what like that is what we're talking about we keep referencing it and you see that oh I might have to take like chemistry 161 which is a general chemistry one please note that that course does have a placement exam you do have to take a placement test and and qualify to enroll in chem 161 if you're not able to directly place in to come chem 161 that you could potentially retake the placement exam I think for chemistry you have to wait 24 hours to redo that or you may just have to enroll in the chem 131 which is the preparation course for general chemistry so there's some information for you if you go to the chemistry departments website and view the placement exam information it'll have a little bit more details about the rules of taking the chemistry placement exam it's a 60-minute time limit and you do need a calculator and periodic table this is available online so if you have you you H username set your password set you can access it now it testing began in October and it will end as you can see there in January 11th and so more details will be provided on this website so let's go back to that placement page some of our programs of studies do require languages not not necessarily all of them but if on your star GPS you see that star is suggesting for you to take like a language 101 or 102 and maybe you've taken four years of Spanish or French in high school and you might want to take a placement exam to see if you could place into a higher level of that language or if you speak a native language at home home ready maybe and you're you know you're quite fluent you could also take a placement exam for that and see if you could place in a higher level so there are some placement exams for different languages so you can view those ones that might be available so scroll past that and then mathematics next so if star is suggesting for you to take like a precalculus or calculus type of math and you may not be transferring in with that that particular math credit completed or the prerequisite completed you will have to take a math placement test as well to so the math placement tests this one it's actually an in-person placement test but students do have the option because if you want to take care of it now and maybe you're not able to come to campus you can sign up if we scroll down on their placement page you can sign up to take the test remotely through something called Proctor you you just need to have a fast and reliable internet connection and but there is a cost to that so as you can see the cost is 1750 and that's basically to to pay for an individual to Proctor you while you're taking the exam otherwise if you are able to potentially access campus you can take it in person at our physical science building again there are some rules that they have as well - math placement does not allow you to bring a calculator okay so chemistry please wait you can use a calculator math placement no calculator just a heads up our math department is a calculator free department so you definitely want to brush up on your equations and that sort of thing so information math placement you can make a reservation if you're going to take it in person we have some upcoming placement tests as you can see they're November 19th and it runs through January the math placement tests it's good for a year so if you take it now and let's say maybe math doesn't work for your schedule though when you when you do get to register you you can save it for you know the next following term to take your placement tests okay yes and we have a question yes it says if you're gonna see - so the question was if you get a c-minus in the class so are we talking about you're enrolled in so if you're taking a class like through one of our community colleges and let's say maybe you're taking math 140 like at our community college like Kapiolani Community College or something or Honolulu Community College you're taking math 140 right now and maybe you have to do calc one for your next math course actually you would need a C or better to be able to move on usually if a course is a prerequisite course you need a C or better and actually I guess that would apply to any transfer student if you are transferring in with an equivalent course that is a prerequisite to another course that you would have to take here at U H Manoa generally you wouldn't need seas or better to continue to the next semester of the courses yeah I hope that answers your question not necessarily I was just referencing that because we have most ease with our within our system of courses you know transferring in so that's why it's really difficult for us to say like in general we really would have to look at your record to determine exactly what math course you're taking right now your current institution and see how it's transferring based on the Office of Admissions to you h Manoa for for us to determine just essentially what kind of math you're coming in with yeah so you could always email us that question directly just so we can have more of a private conversation and be able to look up your record it's helpful if you email us from your Hawaii view email address with which marketing kind of reference it's a very important email address because that's actually how we can what we know one it's you hopefully sending your email because you've had to sign into it and your email address is actually also your username which we can also use to look up your student record to just see the details of what courses you're coming in with so yeah why don't you email us some time at our seat our adv Hawaii by edu email address so we can take a look at your record and and let you know exactly of your your your answer to your question you can also through the admissions website if you go to the transfer section of the undergraduate there's a transfer database and that gives you a rough idea whether or not a class will transfer but it's not it's not it's an always growing this so if your class isn't there that doesn't mean that it won't transfer it just means it has a bit previously so okay all right so that's the information about the math placement test okay so and that's kind of all the placement test that we really have to worry about right now so we'll go back to that registration step by step so we just scroll back down to the information about course restrictions and prerequisites number seven register online star GPS registration so actually yeah we're gonna go ahead and dive in a little bit more deeply into that Miley has a demo account that we can show you how star GPS registration works so you can access it again with your you each username and password so I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to my lane Hey okay so what you will do when you're ready to register and actually when you're ready to just start looking for classes and the sections you might be interested in taking as you will go to WWC roa edu and log into your Starr record we will use your u each ID your email login basically so the username that you use for email your password and then you can see this screen is showing you the GPS registration page which is actually what will be the first screen you'll look at once you log in this is a fictitious student record its starry night privacy issues this is fictitious but what GPS registration will show you is the course plan for your specific nature so when we look at it you can think of it as a plan that is adaptive if you have transfer credits summit coming in the plan will adapt to the transfer credits so spring 2019 we're looking at suggestions that the star system has for the animal sciences major which is what starry night is majoring in so when we first look at it it's actually think of it like a shopping list so it's showing us the courses that are recommended and you want to make sure your course plan is well organized before you go into the registration system kind of like going to the grocery store you don't want to just go in there cold having a list can be very helpful right and when you're ready you can click register add drop classes and the first thing you're going to see is a pre-registration checklist so make sure that you follow the prompts to update your student record read through and respond if there are any holds on your account seith Inc both Martin and Irene talked about health clearance you know if there's any type of a hold you would see it on this particular screen and so you want to make sure to to provide whatever updates that the system is prompting you to do and to clear any advising holds for now we're gonna go ahead and continue forward within a preview mode and what we see here is the course list and then you have the select a course option next to each of the required requirements so one of the courses on the course list is animal science 201 principles and practices of animal science so you'll select a course by clicking on the prompt and then it only has one section so really there's only one option if you click expand it will let you know if there are any prerequisites and so Irina talked about knowing about prerequisites so this is where you could find out by clicking on the expand button you'll fill in the bubble in order to select the course and then you can move forward in terms of a helpful strategy I tend to advise students that they start by selecting courses that have the fewest options and then save those that have more options for later on labs there's usually multiple options for labs so usually save that for the last portion so we'll move to the general chemistry to lecture and see how this system is telling you if there is a time conflict so it's actually respond to the courses you've selected previously general chemistry so this is definitely a course we can see the prerequisite on so I clicked expand and you'll see that the prerequisite is chem 161 completed with the C grade so we'll go ahead and choose the section that actually does not have a time conflict and then I'll skip the lab for now I'll move forward for the precalculus or higher math requirement and actually when we look at this particular course the math 140 it's conflicting with all of the courses in my schedule so I read mention that that might happen sometimes students do need to delay a course because there's just no available section that does not have a time conflict and you'll notice on on the right-hand side of your screen you're building your class schedule and it's actually showing you what the week would look like with the course sections that you are putting in your shopping cart there are general education requirements that our university has and so one of them is global and multicultural perspectives so you'll see that it's listing quite a bit in terms of course options if you want to try and narrow them down so as you scroll if you're just seeing that there's course after course you don't know how to tell them apart you could use filters so sometimes students they may be looking for with the global multicultural perspectives requirement there's different time periods you might select and so maybe you want to look at courses that are that are in the FGA period and so I'll click show more filters and then under the other attributes you'll see the general education core designations that you could look for so if you are a transfer student and if you notice on your transfer credit evaluation that you already received credit for an F G C or an F G B course then that might be helpful to know before picking a second course in the global multicultural perspectives requirement because they do need to be from two different time he reads so I'll look at fga click search and then that's gonna help you narrow down the courses let's say that you are looking for an online course you can also search by instructional type and so I could look which courses might be completely online so that's a bit of a narrow a narrow requirement in terms of the amount of courses so maybe not the FGA but maybe I'll look for any FG courses that might be online and we see music in world cultures is an online of G course so after so as we go through you'll fill your shopping cart with courses so I'm just going to start selecting what I can and this is another general education requirement the arts humanities and literature's so let's say I'm interested in this cinema and digital media and then I'll fill my cart then I'll proceed to the checkout so at this point your registration is still pending so you see a yellow it does alert you that you're not registered yet so even before your registration start time you can be shopping just to get an idea for what type of a schedule you may want what kinds of courses you may want you can put everything in the shopping cart and then set a Google Calendar reminder in your phone when you're going to register and then click Submit to try and check out with the system once you're registered the course will say registered next to it sometimes there are prerequisite errors so let's say that you're trying to register for a chemistry course or chemistry 161 and you have not taken the placement exam and you have not transferred in an equivalent prerequisite for that course you're most likely going to get a prerequisite error so make sure when that occurs that you read the error and sometimes it's easy to solve so for example some courses require the lab taken with the lecture and if you just add them at the same time you can overcome that prerequisite error or by taking the placement exam if that is what's needed you can over that error if you're confused you're really not sure why you're getting this error you can contact Setar advise you we're happy to help you try and brainstorm what the issue might be and I do have an advisor access for this demo so it's not going to let me officially add the courses in an register but but you would see that the courses that you have secured will turn green and will stay registered please know that your from your registration start time you're going to be able to add and drop courses so let's say you register for this this general chemistry 2 lab that's on Mondays and then later on you find another course you want to take that conflict so you need to change your lab time what you would do is you would actually click draw so you would click draw once you're registered you'll have that option and then you'll submit the drop in order to drop that course and then you can add another you'll want to pay close attention to our academic calendar or for the term you're registering for it to find out when the last day is that you can drop on star and when you would actually need to go through like a late drop process and Irene had had shown you where to find the registration timetable and the registration guide so those are very helpful resources that you can keep returning to ok so I think that that's the demo for us first our registration is are there any other helpful hints that you guys might have yeah actually I just want to refer back to the star demo miley if I could share my screen sure my share here so getting back to that demo that Miley created you know setting up this nice schedule and that sort of thing I just wanted to point out some some few tips with with the star system so yeah let's say I want to look for a different class for for my diversification of arts humanities or literature and I'm kind of scrolling scrolling ice you know a mixture of these 200 300 level type of classes I use my eye and let you know if you're first-time freshmen or you're you know just kind of feeling you're feeling you know the campus out don't you don't feel like you have to do a 300 level course especially if you haven't taken any college-level courses yet the star system basically gives you every single course that's designated as a diversification of arts humanities or literature requirement so if you're just starting off just stick to a 100 or 200 level course and if you fought want to find out a little bit more details about the course because right now it's just kind of telling me the title the time that it's offered and the dates and stuff if you actually click this arrow it opens up a little bit more details about the course so if you're looking OA merican experience culture in the arts what's that about again if I click this arrow it shows me a little bit more details about the course but kind of down at the bottom we have a narrative here which will give you the description of the course so kind of you know what to expect with the course related to that so that's where you can kind of find out a little bit more details with it and then you know maybe switch it up secure that and and go back to your requirements and that sort of thing um other things too so up at the top here you have your information on your charges and such this is actually where you can go to pay for your courses so the view pay that's where you can go ahead and pay for your tuition you have the question mark so if you have any questions you know you're going through some technical difficulties on star cute little dogs there they always have different images but that connects you with the star team as well and then the three bars here when you click on that it gives you a little bit more details about different things that you can do so you can print your schedule you can add your classes to your Google Calendar because you're you're you each email account is run through Gmail so you do have Google Calendar you have your Google Drive that you can access through your email account and then parking information if you are hoping to potentially get parking paths you can after you're registered you can try to look to secure that parking pass there so those are just my kind of helpful tips about star GPS registration thank you yeah so I think we could open it up for questions if any of you have questions people looking at the chat right now it's muted so if you go to the bottom left you can unmute your microphone it is a lot of information so you know we are on your team you can schedule and advise an appointment and even if you may not be in-state or it was a physically attend we do give the option to have an over-the-phone appointment where we can walk over our walk through star with you over the phone if that could be beneficial are helpful so I'm just answering some some chats as well she's okay all because responding directly to me okay okay so I guess if they if nobody else has any questions you can I mean sometimes you know I do these meetings and I come up with a question five hours like I should have asked that so if that happens to you and you have a question that kind of pops into your mind were always available I think Kelly she sent out our email address so you can always reach us at our email address you might get a bounce back right away though because we are in the midst of advising for our current students who are registering right now so it's been a little hectic with students we're helping them through walk-in advising and appointments and such but we will get to you when we can there's three of us so we definitely you know kind of share share the workload and checking that email and not sort of thing so we can definitely address your questions there and then also to you know you can think about if you want to make an appointment with us I know our our schedules are a little bit up right now just because it is a short month with a lot of holidays happy early Thanksgiving to you folks but yeah you can always book an appointment we do have phone appointments available if you're not a you know available to come to campus you can do a phone appointment with us if you do a phone appointment with us we just asked if you could please have your star account available so that we can look at it at the same time and kind of talk about your suggested courses and that sort of thing thank you alright thank you so much for tuning in bye