University officials said students successfully registered for next semester’s classes with the new registration system.
The system was implemented this semester because students had trouble getting into the classes they needed to graduate. The new system split registration into five days instead of two, as in previous years, and students registered on a different day depending on the number of credit hours they had.
Registrar Charlie Monnot said:
The biggest problem last semester was with methods of scientific inquiry. The class filled up in under two minutes, and students who needed it to graduate were not able to get in.”
The time registration opened each day changed from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
“The biggest problem we encountered this time was people did not realize we moved the registration time back half an hour,” Monnot said. “We tried to get the word out with emails and posters, but we hope students will get the hang of it in the future.”
Monnot said registrar employees were happy with the results from registration. Breaking the schedule up in this way evenly distributed the number of students who registered per day.
Monnot said they will continue to break up the schedule in the future semesters.
Jennifer Morris, music theater junior, agreed that the new system improved registration.
“I really liked the way it was set up this time, it was a lot less panicked since there were fewer students,” she said. “I usually feel like the classes would fill up without you knowing and I would have to change my entire schedule because there were so many people registering at once.”
Monnot said his office is open to suggestions from students on how to enhance their registration experience.
For more information or to make suggestions email Monnot at cmonnot@okcu.edu.
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