Weeks before online registration was available to all students and faculty, groups of curious students and staff were invited to a mock registration to try out the new system. It was conducted in the Building B computer lab. The students and staff watched a brief tutorial on how to use the new system and then were given free rein to fully explore what it had to offer. Any problems or concerns were addressed and noted by the organizers of the mock registration.
While the mock registration showed a lot of programs that will prove to be very useful to students, the real registration and self-service page on NEIUport was not as impressive.
The mock session showed programs like an area that showed your current major and minor with the names and contact information of your advisers. There were also programs that would allow students to look at their transcripts, grades and class schedules. There was even a section for work study students to check on their progress.
But, for now, many of these sections are just blank spaces on students’ NEIUport pages. Because this is a new system, things like grades and class schedules won’t be on the website until the semester has ended and the summer semester begins. The biggest priority to a student would be to register for classes and to check on their financial aid. These sections are up and running on the NEIUport website.
Currently, the real online sections are being developed and introduced to NEIUport one bit at a time. During the next few months many changes will be made to the system, just to make a student’s life a little less stressful. Many of the services seen during the mock registration will not be available to students until the fall semester.