Mark Workshop Registration Made Easy

Mark workshop registration

hello and welcome to the online version of the registration workshop for the advisement Center this is a workshop intended for first-year and transfer students to help you as you are preparing to register for your spring 2020 classes and your upcoming meeting with your advisor where you will obtain your PIN in order to register for your classes I'm gonna go through some of the basics of the registration process to help you out and we're not really going to dive into details so if you do have any questions or concerns make sure you speak with your advisor when you do meet with them all right I've already gone ahead and pre-populated my screen with the different programs we're going to be using today on the right hand side of the screen I have my ego open with the registration tab and on the left hand side of the screen I have degreeworks open if you are able to do split screen like I am doing right now it is really helpful but if not no worries you can have these open is two tabs in your web browser or two windows whatever you're most comfortable with all right let's jump right into things so in the registration tab we want to go ahead and make sure we're in the correct term so I'm gonna click on select term here and we want to make sure we are in the spring 2020 semester so I'm gonna go ahead and click Submit now you want to check your registration status so go ahead and click here this will show you the date in time that you get to register as well as any holds or things preventing you from registering so the date and time will be the actual time you get to go in and register prior to that you won't be able to but you still can go in and plan for your classes using the different programs we have available all right if you did have a hold on your account we'll go back up and click on registration and then view holds this will give you a little more of a description about what the hold is and how you can go about resolving it this is really important especially if you have a registration hold to get that taken care of ASAP as it will prevent you from registering for your classes however any hold is important to resolve as soon as possible so make sure you get those holds taken care of all right back to the registration tab the next thing we can do is go right into the registration and planning process so if you go ahead and click registration planning you then want to ignore a lot of things in this so ignore the prepare for registration and register for classes as well as browse classes what we're really going to concern ourselves with right now is the plan ahead function so click on plan ahead click on spring 2020 make sure that's what set it continue now when you arrive on this page it should appear as mine looks right now except for that blue block so let me get rid of that for you and we are okay so you might already have a plan in here if you're familiar with the program or you need a little refresher but we're gonna go ahead and click create a new plan right now this will bring you to this screen you and your advisor might work together to create a degreeworks plan here or there might be one already in here for you in any event we're gonna be really working on building your own plan today so I want to show you what classes you need to look for and how you go about that so in order to do so we're gonna go look over at degree works and I'll give you a brief summary of how you can use degree works to help you plan for classes so let's review all these different areas the top box tells you about the information of your current degree program your major your classification who your advisor is and how many credits you have already for transfer students this is especially important for you as it will show you where your transfer credits are coming from as well as first-year students who might have taken college-level courses during high school the degree progress bar is something we can ignore as it's not an accurate representation of your progress towards graduation what you want to worry about are the boxes below so this top box here will show you your degree progress in actuality so how many liberal arts credits you need the number of upper-division credits you need have you met your general education requirements you're writing plan in your major requirements so note here it tells you where what or rather which catalog here your degree works is pulling from the total number of credits required for you to graduate what your current GPA is as well as your current credits applied keep in mind that this includes the classes that you were registered registered for right now as well as any previous credits you earned either at another institution or while you were in high school right your general education requirements these are 30 credit hours across multiple disciplines if this is confusing to you at all make sure you speak with your advisor as there are different options for these so depending on what choices you make will affect what other classes you are able to take so just if you do have questions ask your advisor if you want to see which classes will these different areas all you have to do is click on the attribute over here when you click on this it'll bring up another window that will show you what classes fulfill these requirements the student choice section is weird so as this gets completed the number choose five will start counting down so like I said if you are confused by any of this just ask your advisor for clarification now the writing plan is also something you can kind of ignore for the most part it's a part of your major requirements or your minor requirements that will fulfill your writing plan so if you are completing these things down here you're also simultaneously working on these things up here later on if you do have concerns about this feel free to ask your adviser for your major make sure you're paying attention to the minimum GPA required for your degree as well as what the minimum grade is for your classes this is different for each major so pay attention to these things and of course if you do have questions don't be afraid to ask your advisor one thing to note here is the asterisks next to classes this indicates that the class requires a prerequisite course to be taken prior to registering for this class so keep that in mind when you are registering for classes if you want to see what the prerequisite courses are simply click on this here are the class itself with the asterisks and that will show you listed in the text box what classes you need to take prior to it alright that's a quick summary of degree works so it'll be helpful as we're going through in the planning process so I want to show you a couple more fun tools your plans will be up here to see that is something you and your advisor can work on together but I want to show you the what-if tab and look ahead what if will allow you to do some things like changing your major and let me remove this blue text box here for you so you can see some things there we go so you can select which catalog year this coming from so we're gonna ignore that but really what you want to do is select your major so in this case it was a computer science major but if you wanted to pick a different major and look at what the degree requirements are you can do that here as well as a minor and add those or different classes as well and add those here same with the look-ahead function it does the same thing only this time it's just the classes so as you're registering for classes over here and you want to make sure that they are gonna fulfill requirements you can type in the subject and the course number hey add class will start populating over here and then simply process new and it will go back to that worksheet before but with those classes in a deep blue showing what it would do in terms of requirements for you so for example if you're looking for a gen ed class and you put it over here and you go back to your gen Ed's and you don't see it under your general education requirements that's a good sign that you didn't select the right class and as always if you do have questions or concerns about this make sure you're speaking with your advisor all right I'm gonna go ahead and just recreate that wind or that blue box again to cover up personal information there we go rates to worksheets ok so now I'm going to show you how do we look up classes and add them to our plan so let's still say that you still need your writing general education requirement in that case it's English 102 so what I'm gonna go to over here is the subject box and I'm going to you can either scroll or start typing so I'm going to type Eng for English and click here and then I already know the course number so I'm going to type 102 here then I'm gonna click search and it's gonna pull up all those courses in this case because I gave it a specific course number it's only going to show one result here note the number of Records indicated so that's over on the bottom right corner and it always defaults to ten per page so if there ever more results than ten you simply have to just click here and select what's most appropriate or simply just click the arrows to navigate over alright so I see the title of the class here composition to the subject of English and now what I want to do is look at view sections of it so note that there are 31 records and again only the page defaults to 10 so we want to increase that number I'm gonna go to 50 so we can see all of them and there they are listed let's quickly go over the different categories across the top so you understand what they are when you click on the title of the class it's going to give you a description and important information underneath that is attributes this will show you what requirements it fills so note that we were looking to complete our general education writing requirement and that's this right here if there are any other initial requirements or things are rather attributes they'll be listed here as well restrictions tell you if this class is restricted to a certain major or a minor that is important if you do see a class that's interesting to you but is restricted to a major a minor that's not yours you will not be able to take that class eventually bookstore links will be populated here I'll click on instructor meeting in times this will show you who's teaching the class what days and time and where exactly it's located so this class is in Murano Campus Center room 306 some other important things are prerequisites again it'll show you any prerequisites required here as well as if there are any fees for class clicking down here to show you what those fees might be I am gonna close out this window then you have the subject Eng the course number and the specific section number which correlates to the exact section of the course so all these different instructors have different sections of the class the CRN is the unique number associated with it and ours are the total number of credit hours in this case this is a three credit hour class all right back over to meeting times this will show you the day in time of the class so here are the days and the times listed if you see these blank that probably means it's an online class to confirm that just simply hover over the campus and it'll show you where it's located if its main campus online or Syracuse branch another important thing is the status and reserve seats the status will tell you how many seats are currently available and reserve seats will show you if there are any actually reserved sometimes that you'll see this such as sections being reserved specifically for online students and the online programs so keep in mind that a section of a class might have 19 seats available but some of those seats might be reserved so not all of them are actually available right now I'm gonna go ahead and select when these classes to add it to my plan you can look at the dates and times look at professors to see who you think is gonna be the best fit for you but I'm just gonna go ahead and arbitrarily select one of these classes so I like this Monday Wednesday Friday 9:00 10:00 to 10:05 that's a good time so I'm gonna click the Add button over here when I do that these two new windows are gonna appear I'm gonna pull these up so we can see them a little better well you'll notice on the left hand side here is like a calendar view with these classes pending and over on the right-hand side a list of the courses with the status pending so now I'm gonna go ahead and click Save plan it'll prompt you to give it a name let's call this advisement meeting click Save as soon as you do that note that the status has changed to plan and now over here in the calendar view the classes are filled in and given a nice little green checkmark here alright let's add some more classes now so I'm going to go back hit catalog search results go back to search again and you're gonna want to clear out any of the previously entered tokens to do that you can delete them out this way or simply click the Clear button here all right I've gone ahead and done that and now let's add in another class so let's say you need one of these student choice classes over here so we're gonna look up an attribute I'll look up the most difficult one which can be the world awareness because there are so many different options here so sometimes students will go to this and you know only enter one of the world awareness and see a couple classes think oh no there are not enough classes that I'm interested or can take but it's actually all these attribute types so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to skip the subject skip the course number skip keyword and instead go right down to this attribute box I'm gonna type G e and that'll bring me to the general education classes hit space and then W and now I'm gonna add those world awareness classes so GE world awareness humanities do that again G e space W or of awareness natural science G E space W world awareness social behavioral science G e space W world are fine and Performing Arts right now I've got all the world awareness classes there I'm gonna hit Search note that there are 61 results so I'm gonna go ahead and change that number to fifty so I can view more of them and this can be helpful for first-year students so what I'm gonna go right now to the top of course numbers here and click on this this will sort it by course numbers so I'll see those lower division courses rather than the operative in classes of course transfer students who are coming in as juniors or seniors you can look for those upper division courses but right now I want to show first-year students how to be able to sort by course numbers so they can see those lower division courses that they can actually take note as well that whenever you see class that's not offered for the term it's gonna list it here so although it appears in the search results it's not offered in the spring 2020 semester so unfortunately you can't take that class alright let's go ahead and select one of these I'll click on world history in the 20th century so that's the class description again let's see if there are any restrictions no restrictions are there any prerequisite classes none needed great I'm gonna go ahead and view the sections of this class alright as a reminder I'm gonna pull this up to see when I had registered for English all right English at 102 or rather not registered of course but selected it for my plan was 910 to 1005 so I don't want a class that conflicts with that so I'm not gonna look at any of those options okay here so let's find the class that it's gonna work with a schedule how about this monday wednesday friday 8 a.m. class to 855 let's add this to my plan when you do that it'll be grayed out again as it's pending and I'm just simply going to hit save plan and then it'll be given a filled in box with the checkmark all right moving right along let's continue adding classes go back to search again clear tokens all right this is a computer science student so let's look up some of these computer science classes they need to take all right CSE 212 that's an introductory class one of those prerequisite courses needed for some of these letters so let's search for that this time though I'm gonna search for general computer science classes just so I can see how this process works so I typed in C om and now I'm gonna click on computer science and I'm just going to run a search so it's going to pull up all those classes so I can see that I can search by the where the class is coming from what the major is etc etc okay so we need that cc 212 so I'll find it ah here it is going to viewed sections of it now note that this is a lab linked course so if a class is a lab linked to it it's gonna say under status there's a link section so when you choose the course itself you also have to select a lab that doesn't need to necessarily correspond with it so it doesn't have to be the same instructor or anything like that you just have to find one that's going to fit in your schedule perfect this is a really good example of this so the only class available next semester is Monday Wednesday Friday from nine to ten fifty five so that conflicts with my English 102 class but as a computer science major it's really important that I get this class out of the way so what I want to do is I'm going to click Add and it's going to show conflicting with English 102 no worries I still need to add a lab class as well so I'm gonna add this lab at on Wednesdays from 150 to 245 and we'll add okay now to get rid of that English 102 from my schedule I'm going to go over to English 102 click on the delete and hit save plan that will move remove English 102 from the plan add CSC 212 and now I am planned for that class let's go back search again clear our tokens and search again for English 102 Oh No - OH - there we go hit Search here are the results review sections now I'm look for a section that does not conflict so how about this 1132 1225 class I'll click Add populates down here and I'm going to hit save plan perfect all right let's go back and find two more classes you you okay what other classes can we add here let's see I'm going to look for since this has so many prerequisites for I want to look for more general education requirements depending on you what your major is and what minors you have you might be searching for different classes so that's why it is important that you do meet with your advisors they can discuss with you the best classes that you should take in the following semester all right let's see here so let's look for a natural science class so I'm going to go back to that attribute type G e space N and click Natural Science search for those classes great so any of these classes that are available I'll go right with astronomy few sections find then one that fits with my schedule all right Tuesday Thursday 222 350 that'll work click Add save it to my plan and there it is have four classes and that full-time status plus a lab let's get one more class in there let's search for a fine in performing arts class another gen ed class I'm gonna go back to search again clear out or tokens will search gen add GE F oops for fine and Performing Arts I'd say it search now this is important because some of these classes will be manor major minor restricted so Oh intro to Visual Arts sounds interesting let's check that out restrictions ah it's restricted to art majors Fine Arts graphic design those things so as a computer science major I want to be able to take those classes that's unfortunate no worries though into the world of music no restrictions other than undergraduate or non matriculated undergraduate student and there should be no prerequisite classes either great so let's view what sections are available so this shows only an online class there are 25 unreserved seats and 12 reserved seats so this would be possible so this is a good example to show what an online section will look like in our schedule down below so I'm going to click Add and when I do that note that nothing appears over in your calendar that's because it's an online class so there's no physical time that you need to be present for the class but it will show up here over on the right-hand side of the screen all right so I'm going to hit safe and now my plan is saved I've got these five classes here plus the lab so this is a total of 16 credit hours this semester for this student or excuse me it is not because principles of programming lab does not count for credit so it's a zero credit lab that is still required all right so now let's go back search again [Music] there should be a way to go back to view your plans for some reason it's not showing on my screen right now so what seven line clicks we go all right there we go you should have the ability to click back here I don't know why that's not showing in my screen but no worries so I'm gonna click back on the plan ahead spring 2020 I saved that plan so there it is for you you can have up to three plans here you can go back at any time to edit them or delete it but I want to well what I want you to do is pay attention to which plan is mark as preferred so whichever plan is marked as preferred that will be the one that will attempt to register you for when you go to the registration tab back before so if I had another plan let me do that just quickly it's at a class in math Oh to search few sections click Add save call this back up go back plan ahead spring clean 20 now we see two plans here so this is my preferred one if I wanted to change this simply click make preferred and that will move it to the top and now it's my preferred plan all right that's how you create a plan for yourself make sure you go in here and play around with this as it is a fun way to look at what classes you need and it will help you immensely as you go in to meet with your advisor to plan for the spring 2020 semester