Registration to move onto Web
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on Johns Hopkins’ planned move to online undergraduate course registration.
- The paper reported that seniors could use fully functional online registration starting Nov. 12, while other undergraduates could not register or change courses until January’s add/drop period.
- The article says selected students tested the system on Oct. 26, suggested better course-search tools and noted that independent-study, research and permission-required courses still required Registrar approval.
- The reporter writes that Student Council President Anuj Mittal called the system functional but still a work in progress; students Leah Greenfield and Mario Monopolis described it as user-friendly, convenient and efficient.
- The paper reported that 1,018 students visited the Registrar on the first day of the semester’s add/drop period, and that officials sought more student feedback to improve the system.
- The article adds that Student Council had pushed for online registration for more than three years, while the University developed an interim in-house system because Exeter would not be available for another two years.
- According to the article, students would log in with JHED credentials, but an adviser had to approve their courses before online registration was available.