Course Registration, July 7 – 14

During this period, you will select your fall courses through UMW's online course registration service (known as Banner). To prepare for registration, you should consult the various resources that will be available to you (especially the Academic Planning Guide) and you should have a plan for your schedule (including alternate courses) before you start a registration session. You may access the registration system from anywhere so long as you have a working Internet connection available.

Notification of your specific registration time period will be sent to you through the Eaglelink portal (as a "personal announcement") and will also be sent to your UMW email address. This notification will occur in early July.

The "registration tools" that you will use in order to register are located under the ACADEMICS tab in Eaglelink. You will be able access the registration system as many times as you like as you develop your course schedule. When your assigned registration time period ends, however, you will not be able to make schedule changes until the schedule adjustment period begins.

To manage the registration process effectively, the entering class of students will be divided into three groups.

The first group, transfer students, will register on July 7. Freshmen will be divided into two roughly equal groups. The first freshman group will register on July 8-9, and the other freshman group will register on July 13-14.

In order give each group similar opportunities to schedule classes, the open spaces in courses will be divided among the registration groups. The day before each group begins registering, spaces that were initially held back will be added so that courses that had been showing as closed will open up for the registering group. Available open course seats will be apportioned so that each registering group will have a roughly equal chance to select from the courses available.

Please note that courses do reach their maximum limit, and once that occurs, a course will be closed for good (unless someone who initially signed up decides to drop it).