Advance registration for classes at SIUC normally opens in mid-October for Spring classes and in mid-March for Summer
and Fall classes. How will you register for classes? Many SIUC students no longer rely on an advisor in their
department to do the registration for them, but they self-register using Web Registration within SalukiNet. If that
describes you, then once you've logged into the Your Records portion of SalukiNet, you'll choose
the REGISTRATION menu, then click on the Register item. Then you'll choose the desired term. You'll
specify your desired classes directly, or use a search routine to select them, and then see an updated copy of your
class schedule to confirm your registration.
(To help ensure that your use of Web Registration goes as smoothly as possible, you'll want to prepare as much as you
can in advance. For example, before Web Registration opens, you can search out available classes and find out
other essential information for the upcoming term by visiting the Schedule of Classes site. Once you've done that, you
may need to meet with your academic advisor or college to confirm that those classes are appropriate for your academic
program.)
The following is a step-by-step walk-through of the process to follow within SalukiNet, complete with sample screen
prints. It assumes that you're familiar with logging into SalukiNet, but that you haven't used Web Registration. If
you need assistance with logging into SalukiNet, please
click here.
Using the Web Registration function:
From the YOUR PERSONAL RECORDS menu, click on Registration. This will
bring up the REGISTRATION menu. Click
here to see a screen print of the registration menu page.
You'll next want to click on Register to bring up that page. Click
here to see a screen print of that page. Then you'll choose the Term -- in this
example, Fall 2004 -- for which you wish to register. The default Academic Unit is set up for undergraduate and
graduate students, while Law students will need to choose their particular Academic Unit.
Before we go any further, please pay attention to the Important
Notice shown on that page. Registering for classes at SIUC is governed by the conditions noted. So when
you attempt to use Web Registration, you are agreeing to those conditions when you hit the [Submit] button on this page.
Of course, in order to be allowed into the Web Registration function, you have to be permitted to use it. If you don't
know whether you are permitted or not, you'll want to check the Registration Status function first. For
information on how to do that, click here.
Assuming that you are permitted to use Web Registration for the desired term, you will be taken to a page with
the Course Requests box. Click here to see a screen print of that page. You can use this page to directly enter
your desired classes if you have picked out those classes ahead of time (including the section numbers).
Click here for a step-by-step
example of how to use the Course Requests box to register for a class.
If you don't know your desired classes exactly at this point, or if you just wish to browse the various sections of one
or more courses, you can click in the blue bar at the top of the page to go to one or both of two additional search
engines -- called the Power Search and the Section Search -- to look for that information. These
search engines will display the results of your course query, then allow you to click on one of the results to
complete the registration for that course.
Click here to see a screen print of the Power Search page, and
here for information on how to use it.
Click here to see a screen print of the Section Search page, and
here for information on how to use it.
So what method should you use? Well, you can find a more extensive discussion of these three methods for selecting
your classes by clicking here. Let's just say that there are multiple ways of accomplishing the selection
process. By directly entering your courses, you can register on one screen with the fewest mouse clicks. But by
using the Power Search and/or the Section Search, you can look for alternative classes -- particularly
if the class you had your heart set on is already filled by the time you get to register -- and even do "what if"
types of queries.
Speaking of classes being filled, if that happens to you, you will get an error message that indicates that. Or if you
try to select a class that is otherwise restricted, or that is restricted to you because it would conflict with a class
you've already selected, you will get an error message noting whatever the problem is. And most of these error messages
come with links to help files that provide further clarification. (A summary of the restriction errors is available
here.)
Now once you've successfully registered for one or more classes -- using whichever of the three methods -- you will be
brought back to the page with the Course Requests box. Only now it will also have another box that shows
you what classes you have now enrolled in. Thus, if you wish to change your mind, you have the option to drop one or
more of the classes that are shown. Of course, you can always go back to the Student Schedule item under
the REGISTRATION menu to see a schedule of the classes you've enrolled in that provides you the most details.
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