University of Wisconsin–Madison

Author: kurek2

Dude, Where’s My Download Button?

Now that almost all of the SIS pages have gone through a makeover, you may notice that a few things have shifted aesthetically. One in particular is the button to download the table displayed on a page. For example, on the E-class Roster page or Permissions, it is now on the upper left side of …

Subscribe to the Curricular Services Outlook Calendar

While we’re not on TikTok (couldn’t find rehearsal time for choreography), you can still like and subscribe!  In addition to the bi-annual Planning Calendars* available in Box, the Curricular Services team maintains an Outlook calendar that you can subscribe to. Future dates are added to this calendar each time a new Planning Calendar is released. …

Patience is a Virtue: Wait to Reactivate Cancelled Sections

If you mistakenly cancel a class, you must wait at least 5 minutes before reactivating it. Why, you might ask? The integrations between SIS and Course Search & Enroll are complex. It can take minutes, not seconds, for class status changes in SIS to be fully processed by CS&E. If you cancel then quickly reactivate …

Tip o’ the Mornin’: Cancel vs Delete now enforced in SIS

We’ve gone over the rainbow and found the pot of technical gold: SIS is now able to enforce when reps can cancel vs. delete a section! As of March 2026, if you attempt to cancel a section when you should delete it, SIS will prevent you from proceeding and will display an error message that …

No Topic, No Section. N-O to T-B-D

If you’re offering a topics course but haven’t finalized the topic title, do not schedule the section. Once a section is created and saved in SIS, its topic cannot be added or changed. If a section is created with the wrong topic, it must be canceled or deleted and then recreated with the correct one. …

Take Home Gold with your 25Live Searching Skills

Don’t just skate by and freeze yourself out of classrooms: keep your teammates safe by double-checking room assignment changes. Sync your twizzles by making the change in SIS and then verifying in 25Live. Ski, curl, and glide your way to our 25Live KB for how-to information straight from your coaches in Curricular Services.

Buy Local, Update Global (Notes)

We’ve made it through the Fall semester, survived the cold snap in January, and are no longer in danger of looping Groundhog Day. Just when it feels like things could be running on autopilot, now would be a good time to review something that may be on the back burner: Global Notes! Global Notes are …

We’re SOARing!

Just like Troy and Gabriela, we’re SOARing! This week UW is welcoming students for the Spring semester at SOAR. Both Transfer and new First Year students will be creating schedules in hopes of starting something new. Get’cha head in the game: be sure to check your enrollment caps and manage your waitlists as needed. As …

Release GA rooms for sections that will not be taught/have 0 enrollment

What would Elsa do with a GA classroom assigned to a section with 0 enrollment? Let it go! If you have class sections that will not be teaching in the upcoming term that are still active, you should cancel them ASAP. This is particularly important for sections that have a General Assignment classroom assigned — …

Updating Combined Sections with Schedule Class Meetings

A mysterious envelope appears on your desk, addressed to you (and lightly smoking). It reads: ‘Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to update an instructor on a class section.’ You crack your knuckles and log into SIS. You seamlessly navigate to the class in question, ready to update the information but wait- …