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Hello, my name is Cheryl Evans, and I'm the technology specialist at Rockingham Community
College. The next video in our series is going to be how to use Student Planning to register
for classes. This will begin effective, we will begin registering using Student Planning
in March of 2016. We hope that you will find this video to be helpful. If you need assistance
with your registration, please feel free to contact Technology Support Services or you
may speak with your advisor for additional information. So let’s started. To access
Student Planning, we'll go to www.rockinghamcc.edu. And from the top of the page we will click
on MyRCC Login. This will take us to the RCC Student Portal. From here we will click on
WebAdvisor. We will click on WebAdvisor. When the link opens for WebAdvisor, we will click
login located at the top of the page or the bottom by clicking once. We will enter our
user name which will be our last name, first initial, and the last four digits of our student
id. The password is whatever password you're using for all of your accounts at RCC. If
you do not know your password, please feel free to contact Technology Support Services
and they will reset your password or if it's your first time in logging in, please watch
the video on How Do I Reset My Password? So we'll put in our password and click submit.
This will take us to our student tab, we will click on that, and then we click Student Planning.
Now the first time that you bring up Student Planning, it may take just a moment for it
to populate on your screen. If you'll recall from the last video, we talked a little bit
about each of the tabs across the top. This is your homepage when you get into Student
Planning. From here you can go to My Progress or go to Plan and Schedule. Well we're going
to go ahead and go to My Progress. My progress will give you a summary of the courses that
are needed for your program of study. If you've taken a continuing education program or class
here at the college, it will be listed on your programs of study. We will use the arrow
button to arrow to our next program which will be the actual degree, diploma, or certificate
that you are vying for while attending Rockingham Community College. Now from this screen if
you will recall from the last video, we'll just do a brief recap. It shows you your progress
towards completion of your degree, how many credits you have completed, how many credits
are in progress, and any credits that might be planned. As you can see things are color
coated within the Student Planning Module. Green with a check mark as you can see here
means that it has been completed. If something is fully planned, it will be in yellow. And
I'm going to scroll to the bottom of the page, and you can see the yellow where this one
is fully planned. If we come back up in the area here, if something is in progress, it
will be green and white. With half of it being green, half being white. And then it gives
you the little logo that it is in progress. If something is not started, it will be in
red with an exclamation point stating not started. If something has been fulfilled,
you may also see a light blue color in that as well. So let's go ahead and get started.
I'm going to open this up because this particular student has completed the requirements for
this area here, so I’m going to go ahead and open those up. Sometimes student like
to complete this area. Or when they've completed it, they lack to hide it. Just kinda makes
things move up on their screen and it's easier for them to see. So you just click on the
show and hide and that will remove that information for you there. Now if I continue on, and we'll
click show details and show details here. This will tell me what I need to take in a
group. Now this student has completed English 111, but if you wanted to take English 111,
one of the two ways that you can do that is to see what we're offering for a particular
semester, would be to click on English 111 here, and that will take you to the English
111. And I'm going to do that. You will want to make sure that you do search for the term
that is current, that is located on the left hand side of the screen. Now you notice that
this gives you a course description, it says this course is planned, and it tells you what
the prerequisites are, and that this course is online. You'll see here in the top corner
where my mouse is located now, it says Add Course to Plan. Now if you want to add the
course, what this does is allow you to add the course, you can then get permission from
your faculty advisor and they would approve you to take English 111. And then at that
point you would be able to view sections. And I'm going to show you that in just a moment.
But from this screen, also you can look at all the sections that are available and you
have add section to this schedule. Now if you are requesting a course from your advisor
to get permission. Which you must do. Please remember that you must meet with your advisor
before registration begins, so that you and your advisor may chat, talk about the classes
that you need to take in the next series. Once you are there, either your advisor can
go ahead, approve those courses and have them available for you or you can go back, look
at the classes that y'all kinda talked about and if you want to pick a course or a section,
you may do so. You must have approval before registering for any classes. Now if you want
a particular class, you need to see if they're any seats available. So you can see from this
particular section which is section 02, it's writing and inquiry. There is no seats available.
If I click on this link here it will give me a little more information and it also says
that this section is full and it will have the little red with exclamation point on that.
The next section here says that there is one seat available. The next one 11 and as you
can see so forth and so on. Now if you are wanting to take an online course, which will
be the section 40. When we click on this, it will show us that this is listed every
day of the week, at all times that this is available. Remember before registering for
an online course, you must complete the Moodle online orientation. Now if I come back here,
I can just click add section to schedule. This tells me this section is full so I cannot
register for that. So I’m going to click close, click Add Section. So I’m going to
pick this section. Now when I send and ask for permission for this section or for this
course, it will only be for this particular section. So I can say add section to schedule,
it will take just a moment. And it says English 111 section 03 has been planned on the schedule.
If I want to go look at this, I can click on Plan and Schedule, this will come up with
your calendar. You can see that it shows English 111 section 03 has been planned. And that
means that they've not registered. They've only been planned. Because I have gotten permission
it has been approved. Now I have permission prior to this, so that's why this ones approved,
but I'm going to show you what you need to do if you do not have approval there. So if
I wanted to register for this class I would click Register Now when it's your priority
registration and please see your advisor. They will tell you what day and time you would
be able to register. Once it's your time to register, you would just click on Register
Now and any courses you have selected you would be registered for at that time. And
it would give you, they would all turn green when you have registered for those classes.
You'll notice that you have notifications at the top it'll say see faculty advisor before
registering on WebAdvisor or SelfService. SelfService is what we're using the Student
Planning through. So you can see that this English meets at different times here. Now
I would like to go back, just to show you that under My Progress, if we want to choose
Add A Course. Now this time we choose a particular section. Now I don't want you to get hung
up in picking particular sections because when you do that, if that section is not available
when you go to register you have to go and ask the advisor for permission again. So if
we wanted to take a PSY 150 class, again I'm going to filter on my Spring 2016. If you've
already completed a course, or you've already attempted it you will see it’s in the light
blue that we spoke about earlier meaning that you've fulfilled, but just for this demonstration
I'm going to go ahead and click this time Add A Course to Plan. So I click Add Course
To Plan. I select the term that I want that course for and then click Add Course. When
I go back, it tells me I've already enrolled in another term, so it won't let me even register
for this course. So I’m to go back to My Progress. Go back to My Progress and I'm going
to click on my program and I'm going to scroll down. And once we have logged in to student planning,
it will come up into our degree that we're working on. And remember if you are taking
any courses that are in our continuing education that will be an option here. You may have
to use the arrow key here to arrow over to your current program of study. Continuing
education will a lot of times come up first. Now this student is Mickey Mouse that we're
going to be working with today. And you can see just as a review, this is Mickey's first
semester here at Rockingham Community College. And he has not completed any courses here
at the college. He has seven credits in progress, three have been planned, seven and three here
as well. Now if we scroll down, and this screen as you recall from the last video series is
divided into areas. Now you'll notice that Mickey is registered in an Associate in Art
program. He has no GPA because he has not completed any courses. Now you can see here
that it says that he has planned a course. Well I went ahead and removed this course
from Mickey, so I'm going to show you how we can search for classes and be able to take.
For this series it says that we must take English 111 and 112. We have to have 6 credit
hours. So if I want to take English 111, there's a couple ways I could search for the class.
I can click on English 111 here, this will take me to the next screen and allow me to
look at this information, so I'm going to show you this method and then we'll come back
and look at how we will also use this search function. So first, we will click on the link
here. If this is a course that you are interested in taking. Remember you want to filter for
the current term that you are looking for. For this demonstration we're looking at Spring
2016. When you go to register, you'll probably be looking at the summer or the fall of 2016.
If you have any problems or questions during the registration process, please feel free
to contact myself, any member of Technology Support Services, or you may speak with your
faculty advisor. Now once I have filtered for my term, I see my class here and it tells
me that this course is already planned. It gives me a course description and it gives
me the prerequisites for this course. Even if you've not met the prerequisites it will
let this place onto your schedule, but it will not let you register if you have not
met the prerequisites. So please make sure when you're talking with your faculty advisor
that you make sure that you have met the prerequisites for your course. This information also is
located in your college catalog in the back of it, so please feel free to take a moment
and look at that information as well. So you see that we have Add Course to Plan or we
can view sections that are available for English 111. As we scroll through we can see that
there are no seats available for this class, but these classes here do have seat available.
The system will not allow you to register for seats that are not available. If the class
is full, you may put yourself on a wait list and then be able to come back and register
if any seats do become available. Please watch the next video series that talks about wait
listing a course. Now my recommendation to you if you are looking at the Student Planning
is not to pick a particular course for approval. Remember you must meet with your advisor,
you and your advisor will talk about courses that you need to take. Now one of two things
will happen: your advisor will go ahead and pre-approve your courses for you or you can
submit courses to your advisor. This video series is how you would submit a course to
your faculty member. So I'm going to show you how to do that in this series and the
next series will be how the faculty member has already pre-approved and how you register.
Now I would recommend, unless there is a particular section that you need for your schedule, that
you just ask to have the course added to your schedule and then approved. If you take a
particular section and that section is full, you have to go back and pick another section
and get approval again. So you want to make sure that you only have to ask for one permission
on this. So I would recommend you click Add Course to Plan, it will ask you to select
a term. And i'm going to select 2016, and then I'm going to click Add Course to Plan.
At the top, it says English 111 has been added multiple times to the term because I had done
this before, but that's okay. Just for demonstration purposes we will now click on plan and schedule.
And it'll take it a minute to populate here. And you can see that I have two English 111s,
so I'm just going to go ahead and delete one of these so it won't be confusing for us as
we work through here. And now you can see I have a course here. And as I click on View
Sections, I can scroll down. And it tells me this section is full, so I know not to
even look. But if you will notice as I'm looking at these sections here over on my calendar,
it is already prepopulating these different sections. Here's two, here's three, here's
seven. These are the different ones so that you can see what works for your schedule best.
Again, you cannot register for a class that’s full unless you wait list it and that will
be in the next video series. We can come here and look. And you see how it highlights it
with a black dot around it and it says look this works for your schedule. Remember you
cannot take two classes at the same time because you can't be in two places at one time. Now
if I come down and choose it looks like Mickey is taking a lot of things here during the
evening hours. I can click on my arrow button here and it gives me more options and you
can see it’s getting closer to Mickey's time. And then I have one more page of information
here. Now you see that these, if this is something that Mickey wanted to take during the afternoon
hours, as I mouse over, you can see that this English 111-70, and section 70 right now means
an evening course, would be offered at the same time but I'm already in another class.
Can't be in two places at one time so you want to make sure that you pick a section
that works for your schedule. And you can see this one will work for your schedule here.
Now if you want to add the section to your schedule, and it says English 111-D12. D12
means that this is a 12 week class and it now puts it as planned on the schedule. Now
what you would need to do if you have now picked a course, picked a section, you can
now ask for permission from your advisor. What you would need to do, where it says Advising,
click on this tab, Send a Note to My Advisor: Please grant permission to register for English
111. Save the note. And now what happens is you will click request review. At this point
what you will see is that you plan is ready for review. Once you have clicked the Request
Review. What we would like to ask you to do at this point, just to make sure that your
advisor knows that you have requested some permissions, is for you to open you student
email and send your advisor an email letting them know that you have requested permission
to take some classes. Please for them to check. The email piece is not required it is an additional
step that makes sure that the communication is open between you and your advisor. So that
if they are not logged into Student Planning, if they get that email they'll know to go
ahead and log in. This way we can get things done in a timely manner. Once your advisor
has reviewed your request, they will put a note in here telling you that they have granted
you permission or they have denied it. They could deny it. You would go back to your planning
schedule. And it says you can now register for this class, so I'm going to click register and processing
please complete. Now if it was my registration time, it would allow me to register for this
class but since it’s not my priority registration, at this time I’m not able to register but
when my date comes open all I would have to do is click register now. So you want to make
sure you get approvals for your courses or your sections depending on which one you take
and then when it comes time you will have everything planned out, it will be on your
calendar here and all you will have to do is click register now. Before we finish I
wanted to go back and make sure that I showed you how you can search for groups of courses
once at a time. In the first part of the video series we saw how we can just click on a specific
course. And then we can add that course or sections to our schedule at this time. Now
this search feature that's located here in the corner where my mouse is. When we click
on this. This will give us both or how many items is listed in that area. So for example,
in this area there is English 111 and English 112. Those are the two courses that were located
in that category. That's another way you can search and seek how many items are there.
Now remember you want to always filter for the current term whether that's spring, summer,
or fall. Make sure you always filter for that. Here you can see that we filter for the Spring
and we have English 111 and English 112 because both of those were in that category. If we
go back to My Progress, and where this is very beneficial for you because these only
have a couple courses. But you can see here you have to complete 9 credits and most of
these classes are three credit hours, but it will tell you when you look at the description.
But instead of looking at each one so that you can see what's available, you can click
again the search here and it will list all of the courses that were in that category
and you will see they're all again listed here. Again we want to make sure that we filter
for the Spring, so that we can make sure that we are filtering for the right semester that
we are looking for. Another way that you might want to look for in our courses is by using
the search feature that is located here where I clicked my mouse. Now if you want to look
for a course here, the best way to do this is to use the term. Here at the college we
use the year and then two letters to designate the term. SP is for spring, SU is for summer,
and FA is for fall. So if I put 2016SP space ENG, this will give me all of the English
classes that we will be offering during the spring semester. If I press enter at this
point, you will see that all of the English classes will come up. Again, you can filter
here again. If I do English, put the 2016SP ENG-111 and then hit search, that will narrow
my search down and again I can put for the spring and make sure that I'm getting all
of the courses there. This is bringing you to the course catalog. Which gives you more
options, so if I go back to Plan and Schedule and I want to just click on the course catalog
itself I can click here and search and you can see these are based on categories so you
would find the category that you were looking for so if you were looking for a business
class, this will show you all of the business classes. But I think that you will be more
successful by using the My Progress screen and using either, clicking here and searching
for your course or using the search button here. Now once you have registered for your
classes, a good way to double check would be to click on the time line here. This will
show you if you have registered for the classes. It will show you everything listed here. If
you don't see anything listed under your term that you are registering for, then you would
need to please contact Technology Support Services or your advisor. This will end the
series now on how do I register for a section or a course? Please remember that you must
meet with your faculty advisor before registering for any classes. If you have any questions
or comments, please feel free to contact me at evansc@rockinghamcc.edu and I'll be glad
to assist you. Thanks and have a great day.