Now that you are more than halfway through your first term here at RIT, it’s time to enroll for the next term.

The Enrollment Process

Presenter

Presentation Notes

4 main things students need to remember to do during the enrollment period.

Step 1: Check Your Enrollment Appointments and Holds Log in to the new SIS and check what time your enrollment appointment is. Check for academic or financial holds—holds on your account may prevent you from enrolling. You may not be able to remove holds instantaneously, so take action to resolve them in the weeks before your enrollment appointment

Step 2: Search for Classes and Build Your Shopping Cart Use the new class search to find classes. If you are unsure of the course subject code, click select subject and you can browse all RIT course subjects using the number line provided. Although there is an alphabetical search, the alphabetical codes will not be used until we make the switch to semesters. Add classes to your shopping cart and create back-up plans in case your first choices fill up. Click "Validate" to make sure you meet the requisites and don't have any conflicts.

Step 3: Check-In and Double-Check If you have questions about what to enroll in, check-in with your advisor, either by email or in person, to make sure you are on the right track. Then make sure to double-check your shopping cart closer to the time of your enrollment appointment to ensure no classes have closed. If a class is full you may have an opportunity to wait list the class.

Step 4: Enroll In Your Classes When your shopping cart is all set and your enrollment appointment begins, click "enrollment shopping cart," select the appropriate term, check the box for the classes you would like to take, and click "enroll."

To access the SIS, go to sis.rit.edu and click the “Student Info System” link

• This is what you will see the first time you log in to enroll

• You may have seen this before

Notice:

• The Student Center is Personalized -- make sure it says your name

• The center shows your current class schedule

• Check out your contact information to ensure its accuracy

Things to check before enrollment time: • Holds: All freshman will

have an advising hold when registering for the first time; you will need to schedule an appointment with your advisor before this hold can be lifted

• Do this before your enrollment time

• Examples of Holds

include: • Dean’s Hold • Registrar’s Hold • Financial Hold • Advising Hold • Judicial Hold • Health Hold

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Here’s what a hold looks like when you click the details link and then click on an individual hold.

I have two appointments, what is the difference?

1. The shopping cart appointment opens across campus for everyone at the same time. • You can begin building your shopping cart at this time.

2. An enrollment appointment is a randomly assigned start time for you to begin your enrollment. • The time is just a start time; you can enroll in classes from the shopping cart and

continue to edit your schedule through the add/drop period of that term. • The day is determined based on Year level

What is the Shopping Cart?

• The shopping cart is a unique feature to the enrollment system that allows students to preplan their schedules.

• We encourage students to put back-ups into their shopping cart just in case classes fill up before their enrollment appointment.

• The shopping cart makes enrollment day quick and simple and can be completed in five minutes.

• Enrollment Dates: 1. Shopping Cart

Appointments • Open for all

students across campus on the same day

• Several weeks before enrollment begins

2. Enrollment Appointments • This will vary

across year levels • Click the details

link to find out your appointment time

Enrollment Appointments: • Your appointment is

just a start time; you can continue to add classes until the end of add/drop period, which is the first week of the quarter the class is offered.

• If you drop classes between week 2-7 of classes, you will receive a penalty grade of W.

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Advisors in this system can look at students schedules and give opinions about classes but they have been encouraged to have students to enroll themselves whenever possible. Advisors can not enroll a student prior to their enrollment appointment, nor can they move a students enrollment appointment.

Note: You have been assigned different types of advisors that will fill different roles in your academic career.

• If you know the course subject code you can enter it directly into the Course Subject box

• Then you can hit enter to see all courses offered under that subject

• If you know the full course number you can enter the first four digits into the course subject and the next three into the course number then hit enter

• If the course is being offered it would appear on the next screen

• If you don’t know the course subject code, click select subject

• The search by subject with the alphabet will not be used until the conversion to semesters in 2013-14

• The alpha will return no search results

• You will search by the course number

• RIT only uses numbers 0-5, so numbers 6-9 will return no search results

• Select the subject you wish to see results for

• You will be returned to the search page with the subject field populated

• Then hit enter to return all courses offered in that subject for that quarter.

Presenter

Presentation Notes

The ”show open classes only“ box is automatically checked. Before the enrollment period begins all classes will show up with or without this box selected because students will not have enrolled in classes for that quarter. As classes fill up they will begin to be removed from the lists if this box is selected. Students may unselect the box before hitting enter.

Classes Offered

From the classes offered list you can click additional details to view Course Attributes.

• From the list of classes select the one you wish to take.

• Selecting a class is a two step process, you must hit next to put the course in your shopping cart

• Also, we recommend selecting the wait list box, so if the class is full you have a chance at getting in as people change schedules

• You will be returned to the search results page after placing a course in your cart

• To see classes that are in your Shopping Cart you can select Shopping Cart

• View your Shopping Cart

• Select classes • Hit Validate

Messages: • Read carefully

• A green check mark means that

you don’t have a conflict in your schedule and you meet the requirements in the class

• A red X means that there may be a potential problem, and will give you an explanation message

• Validation does not check: • Reserved capacity • Prerequisites

• In this system you can not:

• Enroll in time conflicts • Enroll in multiple sections

of the same class

1. Check the date/time of your enrollment appointment

2. Select the classes you wish to enroll in 3. Hit the enroll button 4. Select the finish enrolling button to complete the

enrollment process

It is important to read the messages next to the course:

• A red X means that your

enrollment into the course was unsuccessful

• A green check mark means one of two things:

1. You are successfully enrolled in a class

or 2. You are

successfully placed on the wait list

• One way to view your enrolled classes is through the enroll tab and under my class schedule

• It tells you under status if you were enrolled or wait listed for a course

• Another view of your schedule is in your shopping cart, scroll down to view My Class Schedule

Here you can check the status of your class:

• Green check mark means you are enrolled

• Yellow triangle means you are on the wait list

Presenter

Presentation Notes

To view a different format of the weekly schedule students can click the weekly schedule

Presenter

Presentation Notes

This is the weekly calendar view that is created once students have enrolled for an upcoming quarter. “Meeting Information not available” means that the class is online.

Presenter

Presentation Notes

The schedule defaults to not showing class titles, to show the class title students must check the box and then refresh the calendar.

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Then students will see the class title. Students will have to select this option each time they look at the weekly schedule. It only shows classes students are enrolled in, not what is in their shopping cart.

Setting up a Swap: • You must be enrolled in classes • You can set up a swap between a

class you are enrolled in and a class in the class search or in your shopping cart

• Swap must be set up prior to being placed on the wait list

Swaps are handy: • When you don’t want to drop

below a certain credit limit • You are enrolled in one section of

the class but would take a different section, if the other is currently full

• Select the class you wish to drop

• Hit the drop selected classes button

• You must finish dropping

• You will receive a results page to show that a drop was successful

To access your shopping cart and enroll: • Go to http://sis.rit.edu

For more help:

• See your advisor • Training Website

• http://rit.edu/sistraining/student-training-materials • View previous blog posts at the Enrollment Blog

• http://ritenrollment.blogspot.com/ • Use the Enrollment FAQs

• http://www.rit.edu/genesis/frequently-asked-questions