Class registration is no longer a fight for class seats, it’s a fight about who the registration hub, WildcatsOnline, will decide to work for.
From traffic on WildcatsOnline to being unable to sign up during your time slot, there have been things that have been going wrong with WildcatsOnline causing students to not get into the classes they need or having to switch from one teacher to another.
“There hasn’t been one semester in my college career, and I have been here for five semesters, where my group of friends or I haven’t had some sort of issue with online registration,” Adeline Riedmann said.
WildcatsOnline supposedly crashed during class registration in the beginning of November while hundreds of students were trying to register for their summer and spring classes. This caused many students to struggle with getting the classes that they needed to get. They could have been the first ones to get into Wildcat Online and get ready to register, just to be one of the last people to get to register.
There was a major issue with advisers not informing their students that they didn’t have enough credits to advance to the next academic year, causing the students to be behind academically. Imagine them waking up to register for classes just to find out that they aren’t sophomores academically they are still freshman because they are a few credits off.
A lot of students are confused on what the school is doing to fix the registration issues.
“I do understand there is a large amount of traffic on registration days, and I don’t know if there are any measures taking place to combat the influx,” Riedmann said.
The registration office said that they were not aware of some of these issues. They had no idea that WildcatsOnline had crashed and were unaware that advisers were not mentioning that the students didn’t have enough credits to advance. The summer registration issue was resolved and the office doesn’t expect it to be an issue in the future.
The registration office said that they will mention the network issues to Network & Technology Services, NATS, so that they can try to solve the issues during their next maintenance. They said they would share the concerns about academic advising issues.
“Over 1,500 students registered for classes during priority registration on Monday,” Rebeka Wilson said. “That did probably cause the network to move slowly.”
