The ISIS final registration deadline has been extended to today at 9 p.m. from its original deadline of last Friday night.
Approximately 1,200 students had not completed final registration by the deadline on Friday, Associate Registrar Robert LeHeup said yesterday.
This number is higher than University officials estimated it would be, LeHeup said, triggering the need for an extension of the process. The deadline has been extended in the past, but only on rare occasions.
In general, more students fail to complete final registration in January than in September each year, largely because of parking tickets and library fines that they accumulate over the fall semester, LeHeup said.
Students who do not complete final registration by today's deadline will be dropped from all of their courses. According to LeHeup, this situation happens to about 200 people every year.
A student whose registration is cancelled will have to appear in person at Carruthers Hall and manually re-enroll.
Several students, such as second-year College student Chelsey Jones, expressed general frustration with the ISIS system, particularly last week.
"Getting on ISIS was really difficult," Jones said. "If they hadn't extended registration, then I think a lot of people would have gotten kicked out of their classes."
Third-year Engineering student Mansij Hans said an ISIS system fluke allowed him to process his final registration in the middle of the night.
"I actually final registered without incident at around 1 a.m.," Hans said. "For some reason, ISIS was still working."
LeHeup said ISIS is sometimes available off-hours if its system maintenance has already been completed for the night.
Over the next few years, ISIS will gradually be replaced by the Integrated Systems interface, which will have more server space and higher processing speeds, allowing students to more quickly complete registration-related tasks, according to LeHeup and Grisham.
Charlie Grisham, director of the Student Systems Project, said ISIS was developed over 15 years ago, and that it "currently consists of hundreds of programs trying to work together."
"We're aiming for a system that will be completely paperless, where students won't ever have to wait in line," Grisham said. "We're going to have someday a 24/7 system that will handle any number of students that will want to use it"
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