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Banner Self-Service
(web registration site--access via Colgate Portal)

Registration Information
(includes links to
Registration  Schedule, Off-Campus Registration)

On-Line Course Booklet

Changes to Printed Course Booklet

Academic Calendar

Eligible Colgate students may use Banner Web for Student to:
·          Register for courses (with priority order based on class year and last name);
·          Modify their course registration prior to the beginning of the term;
·          View their course schedule;
·          View their final grades and unofficial transcript.

Student Records
Check the Registrar/Banner Web channel in the Colgate portal to find the wealth of information that is available to you whenever you need it.  From this menu, you can view final grades for a specific term, your unofficial transcript, registration or transcript holds, and financial account information.

To access your final grades for a term, select “Final Grades” (under the "View Grades” heading).  In general, the default term is the most recent term for which final grades have been posted.  If the term does not exist in the drop-down menu, your grades have not yet been posted.  Please note also that students with accounts receivable holds will not be able to view their grades until the hold has been lifted.

To access your unofficial transcript, select "Get Unofficial Transcript."    

Prior to registration, you should verify your registration status for the Spring 2006 term by checking View Holds.  If you have a hold on your record (e.g. Accounts Receivable Hold or Concentration Hold), you will not be allowed to register until the hold is cleared.

REGISTRATION  PIN

·          The Colgate University Portal (cu.colgate.edu) allows you to access Banner Web using your network (email) login and password. 

·          In order to register via Banner Web, you must receive your registration PIN from your faculty advisor.   If your academic advisor is off campus (i.e. leading a study group or on leave), you should meet with the chairperson of the advisor’s department or the interim advisor designated by the department.   

·          The registration PIN permits access to the registration section of the Banner Web, where you can create or revise your registration for the coming term.  Your registration PIN will be valid beginning at your scheduled registration time and ending on Friday, January 13.     

REGISTERING FOR COURSES
Please see the Spring 2006 Registration Schedule on page 5.  You will be eligible to register during or after your assigned registration period.  You will not be able to access the Registration Menu prior to your scheduled period. 

·          Go to the Colgate University Portal (cu.colgate.edu).  In the Portal Sign-In section, enter your network ID and password.  

·          Select the Courses tab, then the Registrar (Banner Web) channel. 

·          Select “Register for Classes.”  

·          Before registering for courses, modifying your registration, or looking up personal information, you must first specify the term.  From the pull-down menu, choose the appropriate term (Spring 2006), then click “Submit.”

·          At the “Check Your Status” screen, review any possible holds.  All students will have a “Control Regist Order” hold initially.   This is your registration time ticket, which will be lifted at the beginning of your scheduled registration time.

·          Select “Add/Drop Classes” at the bottom of the page.  

·          At the Alternate PIN Verification form, you must enter the 6-digit registration PIN  you received from your academic advisor, then click on “Submit PIN.”

·          If adding courses for the first time, a blank registration form titled “Add Classes: Spring 2006” will appear.  Begin the registration process by placing your cursor in the first CRN field (under the “Add Class” heading) and typing in your first CRN.  The CRN, or Course Reference Number, is the five-digit number that appears in the first column in course listings section. 

·          Continue to insert CRNs in each block until you have recorded all of your primary (i.e. first choice) courses, labs, and PHEDs.  You must submit lectures and their corresponding labs simultaneously. 

·          To search for courses to add, see section below entitled “Look Up Class To Add.” 

·          When all of your CRNs are entered, click on “Submit Changes.”  If you do not click on “Submit Changes,” no changes will take effect! 

·          Courses for which you are successfully registered will appear in the “Current Schedule” section of the form and will have two identifiers: 

1.        Under the “Action” field (first column), “None” will appear.  This indicates that no action is needed.

2.        Under the “Status” field (last column—use bottom scroll bar), “**Registered on (date)**” will appear.  

·          You may want to print a copy of your schedule for your records. 

 
REGISTRATION ERRORS
Registration errors will appear below your current schedule and are marked with a red “STOP” sign.  To determine the specific registration error, scroll right to the “Status” field (last column).  A possible “Action” appears in the first field.

Error Messages and Solutions: 
·          CLOSED (or OPEN)–XX WAITLISTED:  Select “None” to delete the course, or “Wait List” to add yourself to the waitlist.  (Note:  The XX indicates the number of students already waitlisted for the course.  Your position on the waitlist is XX+1.)   You must “Submit Changes” to be added to the waitlist.  If you do not “Submit Changes,” the course will be deleted. 

·          CLASS RESTRICTION: Registration is based on a student’s class year.  If you receive the instructor’s permission (i.e., signature) to register for the course, bring your registration form (with signature) to the Registrar’s Office to be registered for the course.

·          DUPLICATE CRN:  You have added the same course/CRN twice.  The duplicate course will be deleted from the “Registration Errors” section.  

·          INSTRUCTOR’S SIGNATURE:  You cannot register online for a restricted course. If you receive the instructor’s permission (i.e., signature) to register for the course, bring your registration form (with signature) to the Registrar’s Office to be registered for the course.

·          LINK ERROR A1 (or L1) REQUIRED:  You have selected a lecture that is “linked” to a required lab, recitation,  or film screening section—or vice versa.  One may not be taken without the other.  Add the course again with a lab section.  Remember to submit the CRNs simultaneously. 

·          MAJOR RESTRICTION:  Registration is based on a student’s declared concentration.  If you receive the instructor’s permission (i.e., signature) to register for a course, you must bring your registration form (with signature) to the Registrar’s Office in order to complete your registration for the course. 

·          MAXIMUM HOURS EXCEEDED:  You may not register for more than 4.00 course credits during early registration.  Students wishing to add a fifth course must wait until the first day of classes to do so. 

·          PREQ AND TEST SCORE ERROR:  Registration is based on one or more pre-requisites that you have not fulfilled.  If you receive the instructor’s permission (i.e., signature) to register for the course, bring your registration form (with signature) to the Registrar’s Office to be registered for the course. 

·          REPEAT COUNT EXCEEDS 0:  If you have already taken a course and would like to repeat it, you must come to the Registrar’s Office to register for it.  Please see “Repeating a Course” on page 67 of the current Colgate University Catalogue to determine whether you need the instructor’s permission (signature) to repeat the course.   

·          RESERVE CLOSE–XX WAITLISTED:  “Reserve” indicates that certain numbers of seats has been reserved by class year.  If you receive the “Reserve Close” error, it means that all of the seats reserved for your class year are full.  Thus, while seats may still be available in the course as a whole, they are not open to your class year.  To waitlist yourself for the course, select “Wait List,” then “Submit Changes.”  (Note:  The XX indicates the number of students already waitlisted for the course.  Your position on the waitlist is XX+1.)   You must “Submit Changes” to be added to the waitlist.  If you do not “Submit Changes,” the course will be deleted. 

·          TIME CONFLICT WITH (CRN):  You cannot register for two courses that meet at the same time or have any time overlap.  Either select another course or, if you prefer this course to the course with which it conflicts, change the “Action” of the registered course (the first column in the Current Schedule section) from “None” to “Drop/Delete” by using the pull-down menu.  Then, re-enter the CRN of the course you want in the “Add Class” section, and “Submit Changes.”   

REVISING YOUR REGISTRATION
You may change your Spring 2006 term registration from the beginning of your scheduled registration time until January 13. 

·          If dropping a registered course, click on the pull-down menu in the “Action” column on the “Current Schedule” section of the form.  Change the action from “None” to “Drop/Delete,” then click on “Submit Changes” to drop the course. 

·          If adding a course, scroll down to the “Add Class” portion of the form.  Proceed as you did with your original registration.  (See “REGISTRATION” section above.) Click on “Submit Changes” to add the course. 

·          You cannot change your status from waitlisted to registered using Web for Student, even if a seat has opened in the course.   Attempting to do so will result in the deletion of your original (waitlisted) registration—that is, you will lose your place on the waitlist.  All changes from waitlisted to registered must be made through the Registrar’s Office.   

LOOK UP CLASS TO ADD
From the Registration Menu, select “Look-up Classes to Add.”  This search screen may also be accessed via the “Class Search” button at the bottom of the “Add/Drop Classes” form. 

·          This form allows you to search the course listings using any of the search criteria provided (e.g., subject, days, time, etc.).  For example, you can search for all Liberal Arts Core Curriculum (CORE) courses at 1:20 on TR.  Please note that a subject area (department) must be selected. 

·          Once you have specified your search criteria, click on “Get Classes.”  The form will return the courses that meet the criteria. 

·          If you find a course or courses that you’d like and you wish to add it/them to your schedule, click on the check box to the left of the course(s).  When adding courses, you may click either the “Register” or the “Add to Worksheet” button.  Both of these options will return you to the “Add/Drop Classes” form.  

·          The “Register” button will process all registration error checking and add all eligible courses to your schedule.  

·          The “Add to Worksheet” button will enter the courses into the “Add Courses” section of the form and allow you to continue selecting courses.   

·          Once you have chosen your courses, you must select “Submit Changes.” 

CROSS-LISTED COURSES
Several courses are cross-listed (offered in two different departments/programs). These courses are designated by section letters of AX, BX, CX (and so forth).  In addition, the course with which it is cross-listed appears in the “XList” column (second from the right) in the Course Listings section of this booklet. 

RESTRICTED COURSES
Restricted courses include those in which enrollment is limited to certain class years or majors, and courses that require the instructor’s signature.  Restrictions are noted in the far right-hand column of the Course Listings section of this booklet. 

·          Course restrictions cannot be overridden on Banner Web for Student.  Instead, you must come to the Registrar’s Office to be registered for the course. 

·          Once you have received the instructor’s permission (i.e., signature) to take a course, bring your official registration form with the signature of the instructor to the Registrar’s Office. 

·          Please note that it is your responsibility to get permission for any restricted courses you wish to take. 

WAITLISTED COURSES
·          During early registration, you are asked to limit your registration to a total of six course entries (e.g., four enrolled courses plus two waitlisted, or three enrolled courses and three waitlisted, etc.), excluding PHED registrations.

·          Remember—if you decide to waitlist a course (after receiving the error message “CLOSED – XX WAITLISTED”), you must “Submit Changes” to be added to the waitlist.  If you do not “Submit Changes,” you will not be added to the waitlist! 

·          Waitlists are limited to 50 students.  If a waitlist fills, no additional students will be permitted to waitlist themselves.   

·          Between the end of registration and the end of the current term, the Registrar’s Office will notify you of openings in courses for which you are waitlisted.   

·          You cannot change your status from waitlisted to registered using Web for Student, even if a seat has opened in the course.   Attempting to do so will result in the deletion of your original (waitlisted) registration—that is, you will lose your original place on the waitlist.  All changes from waitlisted to registered must be made by the Registrar’s Office.