Registration now underway
Priority registration for Fall Semester is in progress. Seniors with 105 or more credits were entitled to register Thursday while seniors with 90 or more credits can begin registration today. Open registration will begin Monday, April 30.
David Roos, registrar of Utah State University, said USU students can do two things to make registering easier this term.
The first suggestion Roos gave is to not procrastinate.
“If [students] take advantage of priority registration,” he said, “they will stand a better chance of getting the classes they want.”
If students can’t get into the classes they want, Roos recommends trying again after the fee payment deadline, when classes are dropped if fees aren’t paid.
Secondly, Roos suggests students “use the Internet as much as possible and not give up on it. We’re working out the bugs in it, and it is improving every term.”
Roos said his first choice on how to register would be using the QUAD program on the USU Web site. It “has more functionality,” he said. Those without Internet access should use the touch tone system (797-8888) because it is patterned after the QUAD program.
To make registration run more smoothly and effectively, the Registrar’s Office has had Mary Smith, a staff assistant, train each department in authorizing students online. This will aid in the registration process by cutting down on paperwork, Roos said. Each department will be able to enter a code right into the computer to immediately authorize a student to take a class, instead of signing papers for the student to take back to the Registrar’s Office.
Smith said most departments have picked up on the process quickly.
“It’s pretty easy,” she said. “People who have never used a computer before are understanding it.”
Roos said USU is also working on making the Articulation Agreement more comprehensive. The Articulation Agreement keeps track of the classes transferable from other schools to USU. By working on this system the “computer won’t be even asking for a signature,” Roos said. “This is more of a solution. We need to have more equivalency in our system so the computer won’t give students the run around so they can register.”
Roos said work is being done on the AA, but there is still room for improvement.