Fall 2008 Schedule for PAWS (WEB) Registration

 

Begin registering on date shown for your classification (based on total hours attempted).

 

GRADUATES AND POST-BACCALAUREATES                              March 3

SENIORS AND PRIORITIES                                                              March 17

JUNIORS                                                                                             March 24

SOPHOMORES                                                                                   March 31

FRESHMEN                                                                                        April 7

 

 

Fall Late Registration ends 08/29/08.

Register before Late Registration (first class day) to avoid the $25 late registration fee.

Deadlines and other general registration information can be found on-line at www.eiu.edu/~registra.


For weekend or short format courses, the following will apply.
 * For courses more than 2 days, a student may register or drop the course through the first class day and withdraw from the second class day through the last class day.
* For courses 2 days or fewer, a student may register for a course through the first class day. A student may drop such courses through the day prior to the first class day and may withdraw from the course the first class day through the last class day.
* A student may wait-list weekend or short format courses through the day prior to the first class day.
* Drop - removes course from student record and billing is adjusted.

* Withdrawal - course remains on student record with a grade of "W".

* You must drop a Second-Half-Term course before it begins in order not to be charged for it.

 

Seat Availability and Course Fees

 

For information about seat availability and course fees, access PAWS and select “Search Fall 2008 Class Schedule”.   Choose a term and then define your search by selecting parameters on the class schedule search screen.  When you find the class you are searching for, click on the class title in order to see seat availability and course fee information.  Remember, not all courses have fees, so information will only exist if there is a course fee.

 

Production Banner System Availability 

 

The production Banner instance (PROD) will typically be available 24 hours each day Monday through Saturday.  Sunday, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. is reserved for backup and technical support purposes.  During the Sunday morning reserved time, EIU staff members choosing to use the system must remain aware that the system could be subject to shutdown without warning.  

 

Specific periods throughout the year, such as end of semester grade submission, may require the scheduled production down-time be moved to a different timeframe.  Implementation of patches and upgrades may require a longer period of down-time than usual.

 

No notification of regularly scheduled down-time will be given.  Notification of variances to the schedule (longer down time than usual, different timeframe) will be announced to the campus community.

 

General Information

 

At least once a week go to EIU’s web page at www.eiu.edu to access Official Notices for Students; this is your primary means of getting timely information about registration activities as well as other information you might need.

 

Make a habit of checking your EIU e-mail at least weekly for important messages from various on-campus offices (Financial Aid, Records, Registration, Student Accounts, Textbook Rental, etc.); for instance, you will receive information about such things as classes you wait-listed; returning textbooks to Textbook Rental Service without a fine; financial aid; student accounts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signing into the Banner PAWS Self-Serve System

 

From the Eastern Illinois University home page (www.eiu.edu), click on the “PAWS:  Student Access” link on the left hand side of the screen.  That should bring you to a screen that says “Welcome to PAWS!”

 

You will notice a heading for “New PAWS System”.  Under this heading, you may access the New PAWS (Banner) system or find help with your Net ID or Password. 

 

Click on the access “New PAWS” link to search the Fall 2008 class schedule, course catalog, register for Fall 2008, review Financial Aid Status for the 2008-09 aid year or review Student Employee Pay Information.  This will take you to the PAWS (Panther Access Web Services) screen.  Click “Login to PAWS” which will take you to the Login screen.

 

Enter your EIU Net ID and EIU Network Password.

(If you do not know your EIU Network ID, search the EIU phonebook located on Eastern’s home page.  Your Net ID is the last line of your entry.  The Network ID follows the format of first initial, middle initial, last name.)

 

To Register For Classes

 

Click on the “Student and Financial Aid” link.  Click on “Registration” which will take you to the Registration menu.  To begin registering for classes, choose the “Add or Drop Classes” option. 

 

Select the appropriate term for which you would like to register from the drop-down menu, and click “Submit”.  This will take you to the “Alternate PIN Verification” screen.  If you are a Graduate, Post-Baccalaureate, Bachelor of General Studies or Career and Occupational Studies student, you are not required to enter an Alternate PIN and will be directed to the Registration Menu.

 

Enter the Alternate Pin that has been provided to you by your advisor. Keep this Alternate PIN all semester as it will be needed any time you sign into the Registration menu.  This will take you to the “Add or Drop Classes” screen.

 

If you know the CRN (Course Reference Number) of the course(s) you want to register for, enter the number(s) in the “Add Classes Worksheet” at the bottom of the page and click “Submit Changes”.

 

If you do not know the CRNs, click on “Class Search” at the bottom of the page.  This will take you to the “Look Up Classes” screen.  At this screen you may make your search as broad or as narrow as you wish.  Make your selections and click on “Class Search”.  This will bring up all courses (both open and closed) that meet the criteria of your search.

 

Courses that are open will have a box next to the CRN.  To register for the course, click on the box and then click on “Register” at the bottom of the page.  This will add the course to your schedule.  To verify your schedule, click “Return to Menu” and click on “Student Detail Schedule”.

 

To Waitlist a Course

You may waitlist a closed course if the course has seats available to waitlist.  To determine if a course has seats available to waitlist, you must do a class search through the “Look Up Classes” link under the Registration menu.  Once you have found the class, you can see if there are seats available to waitlist under the “WL Rem” column.  This is the number of waitlisted seats remaining.  If you want to waitlist this course, you must type the CRN for the course into the worksheet under the “Add or Drop Classes” link on the Registration menu.  You must then “Submit Changes”.  It will then show that the course is closed and the option to waitlist will appear in the drop down menu.  To show the course waitlisted on your registration schedule, you must “Submit Changes” again.

 

To Inquire About a Course

 

If you would like to find out more information about a specific course double-click on the CRN.

 

To Drop a Course

 

Go to the “Add or Drop Classes” screen.  In the Action column you will find a box by each course.  Use the drop-down menu and select the “Drop Web” option.  Then scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Submit Changes”.  This will drop the course from your schedule.  The screen will refresh and show that the course was deleted.