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Electronic Faculty Override System

For Release Upon Receipt - January 22, 2010

St. Augustine


Deadlines:

  1. Student online submission of override requests – Tuesday, 9 February 2010 – 4.00 p.m.
  2. Faculty processing of students’ online overrides requests – Friday, 12 February 2010 – 4.00 p.m.

ALL Students to check the status of their override application online in banner sas

When a Course Criteria is NOT satisfied, a message is displayed when the student attempts to register for course.  Course Criteria include the Departmental and Faculty criteria.

Faculty Overrides are permissions granted via Banner SAS by a faculty to students with a valid reason to register for a course where the student encountered a registration add error preventing online registration. Overrides are discretionary permissions and not a right to which students are entitled.  Where granted, an override automatically registers a student for the course. 

Students are permitted to submit an electronic override request for the following Registration Add Errors:

Criteria

Description

Error Message

Exceptions

Pre-Requisite

UWI Course(s) that the student must have already passed

PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR

Only permitted for specified Humanities & Education FOUN & LING courses**

Test  Score

Non-UWI Course(s) that the student must have already passed, e.g. CXC, A’ Level, CAPE, etc

PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR

Only permitted for specified Humanities & Education FOUN & LING courses**

Faculty Credit Limits

Limit on the maximum number of credits a student can register for in a semester, without Faculty approval

MAXIMUM HOURS EXCEEDED

 

Capacity

Limit on the number of students allowed to register in the stream/section of a course

CLOSED SECTION

 

Student Restrictions

Stream/Section of the course restricted to a specified group of students, e.g. History Majors, Faculty of Social Sciences students, Final Year students, etc.

LEVEL RESTRICTIONDEGREE RESTRICTIONMAJOR RESTRICTIONPROGRAMME RESTRICTION

 

 

A student can receive one or more of these seven (7) error messages when registering for a class

Any of the above-mentioned error messages received in conjunction with one or more of the following error messages will prevent the student from submitting an electronic override request: Campus, Class, College, Duplicates, Pre-Requisites & Test Score, and Special Approval.  See next table for description of these error messages.

Pre-requisite overrides are not granted except for some FOUN and LING courses of the Facultyof Humanities and Education

Students are prevented from submitting an electronic override request for the following Registration Add Error messages:

Criteria

Description

Error Message

Exceptions

Campus

An Evening student is attempting to register for a Full-Time section of a course

Campus Restriction

 

Class

A Year 1 student attempting to register for a course that is restricted to Year 3 students.

Class Restriction

 

College

A student attempting to register for an out of faculty course

College Restriction

 

Duplicates

Student is attempting to register for the same course more than once in the same semester

duplicate RESTRICTION

 

Pre-Requisite

UWI Course(s) that the student must have already passed

PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR

Requests are permitted for the specific Humanities & Education FOUN and LING course codes

Test  Score

Non-UWI Course(s) that the student must have already passed, e.g. CXC, A’ Level, CAPE, etc

PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR

Requests are permitted for the specific Humanities & Education FOUN and LING course codes

Special Approval

A student attempting to register for a course that requires special approval (i.e. Dean, HOD etc)

SPECIAL APPROVAL RESTRICTION

Not in use at St. Augustine Campus

**PREQ and TEST SCORE-ERROR overrides requests are only permitted for the following Faculty of Humanities & Education FOUN and LING courses:

FOUN 1001 – English for Academic PurposesFOUN 1102 – Academic Writing for Different DisciplinesLING 2001 – PhonologyLING 2002 – SyntaxLING 2004 – SemanticsLING 2006 – Speech and Hearing ScienceLING 2101 – Language AcquisitionLING 2302 – SociolinguisticsLING 2305 – Introduction to Educational LinguisticsLING 2306 – Approaches to Discourse AnalysisLING 2402 – Structure of the English LanguageLING 2403 – Change and Development in the English LanguageLING 2803 – Change and Development in Selected European LanguagesLING 3201 – Caribbean DialectologyLING 3202 – Creole Linguistics

 

Faculty Override Process

Step 1 Proceed to register for your course(s).

On receipt of a Registration Add Error message, review the Override Permitted column on your screen.  If Override Permitted column is “Yes”, then click the Request Override button, if No, then you will not be able to submit a request for an override for the course.

Step 2 The Dean/Head of Department or person assigned to perform overrides for the Faculty offering the course will review and either approve or deny your request.

Step 3 If your request is approved, you will automatically be registered for the course otherwise, it means that your request was denied.   You can view the status of your override request submission online via Banner SAS (see instruction provide below).

NOTE: It is the student’s responsibility to check the status of his/her override request submission. 

Electronic override requests submission for Semester II, 2009/2010 closes at 4:00pm on Tuesday, 9th February 2009.

 

Check Override Request Status Instructions

Step 1Login to Banner SASStep 2Click Students Services & Financial Aid Step 3 Click Registration Step 4Click Check Your Registration Status Step 5 Select the relevant term and click Submit to view your overrides request status.

 

For more detailed information on the Electronic Faculty Override System and  STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS on how to submit an override request, please read  About The Electronic Faculty Override System and Electronic Faculty Request Submission sections (pages 10-13 and 14-23 respectively) of Student Online Registration Guide or visit  http://sta.uwi.edu/registration/overrides.asp.

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