Ohio University

New registration and Advisee Lists tools; advising holds replace RAC.

Friday, May 6, 2011
Sean O'Malley  

Students and advisors alike will have new tools and new procedures to follow this month as they prepare for fall priority registration.

Topping the list for both groups is the replacement of Registration Access Codes (RACs) with a hold-based method for ensuring that students meet with their advisors. Students also will have a new interface to register for classes.

Advising changes

According to a May 6 e-mail from the Registrar, all undergraduate students will have priority registration advising holds placed on their accounts for fall. Undergraduates will be unable to register until their advisors or their delegates release that hold using the new Advisee Lists tool.

The tool is expected to be available soon. In the meantime, advisors who meet with students have been asked to keep a list of those students and to release the holds once the tool is available. The Registrar will contact advisors directly when the new tool is online. Those who wish to preview the new tool can download a set of annotated screen shots.

DARS reports will look slightly different, as well. RACs, enrollment appointments (registration times), and holds will no longer appear on the reports. Enrollment appointments and holds will be available to advisors in the Advisee Lists tool and to students in the My OHIO Student Center.

A new way to register

For fall, students will use the My OHIO Student Center link on the Academics tab of My OHIO to register for classes. They will enter class numbers from Course Offerings into an online shopping cart, verify their choices, then finalize their enrollments. Students will be able to fill their shopping carts and verify requisites ahead of time, but the system will not allow them to finalize their enrollments until their time slot opens.

Also new for fall is a tighter restriction on time conflicts.  In the old system, students could enroll in classes with overlapping meeting times.  In the new system, a permission slip will be required to override a time conflict.

Step by step instructions and a video overview of the registration process are available from the Registrar's web site.