Category: Curricular & Enrollment Pro Tips

Requesting Essential Room Characteristics

A wise man named Mick Jagger once said, “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes…you get what you need!” Now that Initial Call is open for Spring 2026, be sure to only request GA room characteristics that are pedagogically essential and that align with the rooms available in the GA …

Managing Enrollment with Section-Level Requisites

Enrollment season is underway! One way to manage enrollment is by using section-level requisites. These requisites are placed at the section level on the Adjust Class Associations page in SIS, and can temporarily limit who is able to enroll based on things like academic standing, or declared major. For example, a subject may choose to …

Take a (Spring) Break

Happy Spring Break! While Summer and Fall enrollment are both right around the corner, we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming and encourage you to do the same! Late March can be a chaotic time, so we want to remind you to take care of yourselves. Campus has a variety of wellness-related …

Topics Course Display in CS&E

Topics courses appear slightly differently in Course Search & Enroll and this can lead to confusion when students are searching and enrolling for courses. Every topics course will have 1 row per scheduled section plus 1 additional row for the “umbrella” course catalog number. For example, in Summer 2025, Art 448 has 3 sections scheduled …

Reports! But the fun kind

The Curricular Rep WorkCenter contains a bookmark to the Query Report Viewer where you can run reports as needed to assist you with your work and review data related to your scheduled course sections. This KB provides the report title and what it shows, so you can find what you need.  For additional reporting, you …

Loop in Curricular Services on Room Swaps

Final Call for 1262 begins tomorrow, and it’s the first opportunity to view room assignments in SIS. If you are not satisfied with the classroom that was initially assigned to a class section, it may be tricky to find a new room that is currently available across the entire semester. Instead, it may be appropriate …

Always Edit Class Association Number on New Sections

When adding a new section to an existing course, the class association number will always default to 1. You must edit this appropriately, as each enrollment package must have its own association number. This gets overlooked most frequently with adding new sections to IND courses but is essential to review on all new sections.   …

Spring Term Enrollment Prep and Reminders

Happy (almost) Spring term! As we welcome a new group of Badgers this week at SOAR, be sure to keep an eye on your enrollment capacities. If you have combined sections, communicate with any secondary subjects to make sure that things are set up correctly. Pay attention to shifting enrollments on waitlists. If you are …

Cancel vs. Delete

It’s our last Pro Tip for the Fall term, and we’ll be picking back up after the winter break. In keeping with the theme of final exams, here’s a pop quiz! During the build, you’ve discovered that you do not need one of your class sections that has been scheduled already in SIS. It’s currently …

Term Update Switch Reminders

The term update switch controls what edits can be made in SIS for a given term. As a reminder, these are the only edits that may be made when the switch is flipped off: When the term update switch is off, please do not contact Curricular Services to make edits that were not completed during …