Tag: Enrollment

(Per)Mission (Im)Possible

Enrollment permission, should you choose to grant it, can be set up in two ways, and used as follows:  Student-specific permissions are the default and recommended option for most courses. These are frequently used when students need to override a requisite, or course capacity.  Generated permissions work best when instructor or department consent is required …

Stay up-to-date on campus enrollment dates & deadlines with new Outlook calendar

A new resource from the Office of the Registrar (RO) makes it easier to keep up with key enrollment dates and deadlines.

Helping a Student Who Doesn’t Have an Enrollment Appointment

Helping a student who doesn’t have an enrollment appointment: Did they apply to graduate for the current term?   If so, they need to update their application for graduation to a later term or select “Not certain at this time” to allow term activation and enrollment appointments for the following term(s)  Are they currently discontinued?  If so, they will need to be reactivated in SIS before …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Managing your Wait List

Happy Peak Enrollment Season! If your subject(s) have courses that utilize a wait list, be sure to review your own procedures for allowing student enrollment. Here are some additional considerations: For Curric/Enroll Reps managing a wait list:  For students who are enrolling: 

Matching classes to classrooms: How the Office of the Registrar finds a home for thousands of class sections each term

The Office of the Registrar's Curricular Services team works year-round to process thousands of requests to assign classrooms for class sections, exams, and events.

Enrolling in Courses After the Permission Deadline

The deadline to add a Spring 2024 course with department permission recently passed. Students who wish to add a Spring 2024 class or adjust credits of a variable credit course must seek academic dean approval via submission of a Course Change Request Form in their MyUW Student Center.

Update Combined Enrollment Capacities

Enrollment season is in full swing, which may eclipse (ha) your other duties for the moment. There are many combined sections in the Schedule of Classes, and it’s important to ensure accurate enrollment capacities. For all sections of a combined course, each subject will need to update their own sections’ enrollment caps.  The primary subject …