It's that time of year again -- a time for students to face ISIS, the course registration monster which garners annual groans from much of the University's student population.
"But students never complain," University Registrar Carol Stanley said, jokingly.
Registration for spring 2005 courses began yesterday and will continue for the next few weeks.
The Registrar's Office, which handles the customer support end of the registration process and therefore deals with students who are having trouble with ISIS, had not received any complaints as of yesterday evening.
"We are not aware of any problems going on at the moment," Stanley said. "A lot of times we get students calling in who don't know that they need to have Internet compatibility or have their pop-up ad blocker off."
Stanley said the Registrar's Office is always willing to respond to student concerns.
"We're always looking for ways to improve things," Stanley said. "We're starting to think about a new system and the gargantuan amount of work that would require, but we are currently in no position to say if and when that would go into effect."
The University tries to ease the course registration process by making it as functional as possible, especially in the spring when first year students are incorporated into the regular system, according to Stanley.
"This is a very controlled release system," said Don Reynard, director of application and data services. "There is a group of students released every 15 minutes, so for 15 minutes they are the only ones there, unlike in the fall."
Every group contains about 50 students, which creates a system intended to avoid causing the "Users Exceeded" pop-up which prevents a student from accessing ISIS.
Students are placed in groups based on the number of credits they have earned, and then they are randomly distributed within the credit groups. Graduate students register first, followed by Echols scholars, Rodman scholars and Transition students and then athletes playing a spring sport. All other students register according to the credit hierarchy system after these specific groups.
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