Concept: Student Registration

With Workday Student, you can efficiently move students through the course registration process.

You can configure the student registration process to align with the policies of your institution. This enables:

Students to register for and manage their courses more independently.

You to reduce manual effort and focus on resolving unique circumstances.

Example: Workday prevents students from registering for a course section once it's at capacity, but you can still manually override the capacity setting for students.

Registration Policies

You can define these policies for students within an academic unit and level, or program of study:

Policy	Description
Enrollment access and grading policy	Use the Maintain Enrollment Access and Grading Policy task to specify: The set of students who can register for specific courses. The grading scheme used when you grade students for courses.
Enrollment unit limit policy	Use the Maintain Enrollment Unit Limit Policy task to specify the number of units that students can register for.

Registration Dates

You use date controls to specify registration-related dates, such as:

Enrollment window.

Open enrollment.

Last day to waitlist for a course.

Last day to add a course.

Last day to drop a course without a record.

Last day to withdraw from a course with a withdrawal grade.

You can use the

Maintain Academic Period Registration Appointments

to define registration appointments, which control when different sets of students can register during the enrollment window.

Registration Planning

Students can use their academic plans and academic progress reports to determine which courses they need to complete their educational objectives.

Students can create saved schedules for each academic period and add course sections to them, helping them plan for upcoming registration appointments. When students select a standard academic period, they can also add course sections from any nonstandard academic periods that roll up to it.

Students can manage their saved schedules when they access the

View My Saved Schedules

report from the:

Dashboards you configure.

Global search.

You can view all saved schedules for a student when you select

View Saved Schedules

from the

Plan

report on the Academics profile group of the student's profile.

You can create custom reports to view saved schedule data, enabling you to learn more about trends in student registration planning.

You can use the

Maintain Custom Labels

task to rename these terms to align with the policies and preferred terminology at your institution:

saved schedule

saved schedules

Students Registering for Courses

Students can register in course sections that:

Tie into fixed academic periods in the academic calendar.

Don't tie into academic periods, but fall within a standard academic period.

You need to onboard current students before they can register for the upcoming academic period. Students can then register for courses on the desktop or mobile application from:

Their academic plan if there is at least one eligible course.

Their saved schedule if there is at least one eligible course.

The

Find Course Sections

report.

A course listing.

Students can troubleshoot why they're not able to register for a course on these tasks:

Start Course Section Troubleshooting

Start Registration for Course

You can also use the

Registration Troubleshooting Console

task to help students troubleshoot their registrations.

Steps: Set Up Academic Plans

Steps: Manage Date Controls

Steps: Set Up Student Registration

Steps: Manage Continuing Student Onboarding