really, really sucks.

3/27/2009 2:43:09 PM

I agree.

3/27/2009 3:05:37 PM

there is some sort of university policy where they have to change the way to registration interface every 2 5/7 years.


i think.

3/27/2009 3:25:40 PM

It's not that bad. If you set up a wishlist beforehand, then registration's really fast.

3/27/2009 3:36:04 PM

I think the wish list feature is absolute genius, but I just don't like how everything is so spread out. I liked how everything lined up and you can see all of your classes at once in the old interface. Also, the new "My Class Schedule" part of it makes no sense in the way it is set up. The old schedule view also looked nicer.

3/27/2009 3:55:38 PM

yeah wishlist is a decent feature, but we've had xtracs and lately tracster for years now for pre-registration planning, and the sluggishness and cumbersome 'click through 6 layers' just to add one class is horribly frustrating

it's like they brought all of the bloated shittiness of Vista-WebCT to the registration system

3/27/2009 4:03:38 PM

PROBLEMS DUE TO USER. REPLACE USER.

3/27/2009 5:25:48 PM

Not my problem anymore.

3/27/2009 5:50:24 PM

4 steps to add a class... wtf

3/27/2009 6:18:28 PM

i don't like it because ITS ORACLE/PEOPLESOFT

PEOPLESOFT CAN GO SCREW ITSELF

slow as hell, not intuitive, uses weird ass AJAX/iframe implementations so it's really hard to integrate anything into it... ugh.

i liked tracs just fine, thank you very much

3/27/2009 6:26:06 PM

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"lately tracster "

Yay

3/27/2009 7:35:16 PM

^if you were part of that thank you, it's leaps and bounds better than anything else for planning

but I think sometimes it doesn't understand lab sections when they have the same number as the main course (no L in the number, so it thinks you've got two of the same class)

3/28/2009 12:22:58 AM

evan, when are you going to finish school tool on your website?....another project not to be completed?

3/29/2009 8:15:10 PM

yeah, they really fucked up

3/29/2009 8:35:32 PM

the wish list was about the only useful thing this had to offer.

3/29/2009 10:06:15 PM

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"but I think sometimes it doesn't understand lab sections when they have the same number as the main course (no L in the number, so it thinks you've got two of the same class)"

There are some quirks with the data we get for it now. Everything switching to SIS was supposed to remove course letters from sections, but sadly that hasn't actually happened. Now some courses/labs have letters, others don't, while others have a new special topics ID.

It's next in line for some upgrades, so hopefully before the next registration period things will be ironed out.

3/29/2009 10:56:38 PM

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"evan, when are you going to finish school tool on your website?....another project not to be completed?"

please see my post regarding this exact question in feedback forum

3/30/2009 9:37:36 AM

^^The easy way to resolve all this is to go back to the old system that worked, people loved, and are used to.

Seriously: what's up with changing this shit every few years? Stop it

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"the wish list was about the only useful thing this had to offer."

Yes.
Maybe I'm missing it, or maybe it's yet another thing they've fucked up: there's no graphic representation of one's schedule, like these: message_topic.aspx?topic=533633
The one that's there only places things within the hour, so a class starting at 950 is in the exact same place as one at 910

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM. Reason : tgy]

3/30/2009 1:23:59 PM

^yep. does anyone know of some type of schedule-making software that will allow me to make something printable similar to the old style?

might have to just rig something up in excel

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM. Reason : h]

3/30/2009 1:37:52 PM

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"^^The easy way to resolve all this is to go back to the old system that worked, people loved, and are used to."

You won't hear me arguing.

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"yep. does anyone know of some type of schedule-making software that will allow me to make something printable similar to the old style?"

You can use Tracster ( http://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/tracster/ ) to generate a nice PDF for your schedule.

3/30/2009 4:21:09 PM

awesome. thanks.

3/30/2009 8:19:11 PM

I can't
It won't let me add both the class section and lab section in either PY or PCC Sounds like what you addressed above, though.

3/30/2009 10:53:57 PM

^^^i wish i had access to the SIS data to fix school tool would make things so much easier

3/30/2009 11:06:08 PM

ok, the new registration system is completely horrid. it was a horrible experience

3/31/2009 12:37:35 AM

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"I can't It won't let me add both the class section and lab section in either PY or PCC Sounds like what you addressed above, though."

If you can get me the exact course numbers and section numbers for each, I can take a look.

3/31/2009 3:18:34 PM

i like that mypack now asks me if i want to view my "shopping cart" of classes.

what existing system did they steal this from? haha

3/31/2009 3:53:12 PM

so this new shit looking schedule is what we'll have to be printing off now?

4/8/2009 2:44:16 PM

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"I can't It won't let me add both the class section and lab section in either PY or PCC Sounds like what you addressed above, though."

Just for the record, with the redesign this issue should now be fixed.

Also, we need a new name for the tool -- Tracster was based off the old "TRACS" registration name, so if anyone has any ideas, let me know.

4/8/2009 4:08:47 PM

School Tool

4/8/2009 4:40:52 PM

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"I can't It won't let me add both the class section and lab section in either PY or PCC Sounds like what you addressed above, though."

If you still want to be able to visualize everything, you can just 'Switch To Time Block Creation' and make up the block anyway, that's what I did for a lab and an overlapping class override

4/8/2009 5:48:23 PM