Online registration goes smoothly after past trouble
By: Jill Moon
Issue date: 11/18/04 Section: News
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"I've registered online every year," junior Megan Brady said. "I like the convenience of it. It's easy. You don't have to leave home."
Morris said online registration has been possible for the St. Louis-area campuses since 2000. Changes have been implemented since the beginning of online registration.
Online registration starts earlier than in the past. It begins at 5 a.m. for the first three days. It has been this way for the last two or three registration cycles. Morris said registration disrupted classes in the past.
"There were some departments that shut classes down during the first day of preregistration," Morris said. "They would not hold classes because their students were all standing in line trying to get their classes registered for. So, we figure if we open it up at 5 o' clock, give students that early opportunity to get out there, get it done, they can be back on campus in time to be ready for classes."
Freshman Danielle Hanks said registration this semester was a lot better than last semester. It took about 45 minutes for Hanks to register last June compared to the 10 minutes this year.
"It was simple," Hanks said. "I just followed the directions."
Another major change is letting upperclassmen register first. Only seniors are allowed to register the first day. The following day juniors can register. All undergraduates can register the third day.
"Initially, we started to do Web registration just like they used to do walk-in registration," Morris said. "It was first come, first serve for all undergraduate students. It really slowed down the system. It literally put it to a crawl."
The university also has a bigger computer than it did two years ago, which speeds registration. It has a bigger memory than the old computer.
Online registration did not go off without some problems. A student said she had a Spring I class interfere with a Spring II class. Morris said this was probably a pre-requisite problem. The biggest problem encountered was class standings were not calculated correctly for a group of students.
