Although students have just now hit the halfway marker for this semester, it’s already time to be planning next semester’s classes.
The enrollment process for spring 2008 and interterm classes begins Monday with the seniors initiating the first wave of online enrollments using the new My Baker software that replaced Campus Connect over the summer.
“For our current students it’s going to be a completely different feel, completely different look and process,” Web Services Administrator Toby Ebel said.
Ruth Miller, director of records and registration, said students should familiarize themselves with the program and tutorials explaining how to enroll, which can be accessed by logging into a student’s My Baker account or going to the e-tools page of the Baker Web site.
“That would reduce the amount of frustration a student may have or the anxiety a student may have when it’s time for them to enroll,” she said.
Miller said this will be the first time the new computer system is used for a campus-wide enrollment and while she’s not expecting huge obstacles, she does want students to be prepared for some common problems such as the software tending not to recognize prerequisites students transfer to the university.
“We still have some things to work through in getting the system to be able to read transfer work the way it should,” she said. “I can’t see that it’s going to be a huge problem, but it’s something to be aware of.”
Professor of Business and Economics Martha Harris said one factor that offsets the downfall of the system, is the fact that it takes into consideration classes students are currently enrolled in and assumes the student will pass them.
“With the old system if you were in microeconomics now and you were trying to enroll in macroeconomics next semester, it would tell you that you hadn’t met