LORIS Registration Troubleshooting/ Information
As a first step, you should read the information presented by the Registrar’s Office:
"Your 4 Steps to Registration" - Returning Students 2012/13.
If you are experiencing registration difficulties, please refer to the LORIS written Registration Instructions and LORIS Error Messages pages first.
COMMON LORIS ERROR MESSAGES AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS
Major Restriction
This error message means a course is currently only available to students of a particular major.
What to Do if You Receive this Error Message:
A) You Believe that You Are A Major But LORIS Fails To Recognize Your Status
Check your LORIS student record to ensure that you met progression requirements for your program in May 2012:
http://loris.wlu.ca
Type in your student number and PIN. Click on Login
Click on Student Services or Registration
Click on Display Student Program
Select the Term from the drop-down menu
It will display your program for that term.
This program check will also indicate if you are on probation based on the academic decision of a previous term. Academic decisions are displayed under "Official Final Grades" for that term. You can also view your program on the "Unofficial Record of Course Work" in LORIS.
If you did not meet progression requirements for your program, or you are on academic probation, you will be placed in the General BA or BSc with No Designation program and are therefore NOT a major in the program.
B) You Are Not A Major
Many courses have registration restrictions that will be removed on June 29th (12:00 am). Before June 29th, these courses are only open to students in select majors, Honours programs and year levels. If, before June 29th, you cannot select a particular course due to restrictions, you should check again on or after June 29th for availability. If you are looking to pick up a minor in the discipline, you are also required to wait until the course(s) opens up to other majors or non-majors.
Should the course(s) be at capacity:
1) Waitlisting
If a department has authorized waitlisting to be used if a course is full, you will be prompted to add yourself to the wait list. Read the waitlisting instructions. Note that not all closed courses have a wait list.
2) Persistence
If a course does not have a waitlist, we recommend that you monitor LORIS frequently over the summer months and watch for an opening in the course(s) so that you may enroll yourself in the course. You have until September 23, 2012 to add 12-week Fall term and full-year courses to your schedule.
Prerequisite and Test Score Error
This error message means you are missing one or more pre-requisites for the course you have selected.
What to Do if You Receive this Error Message:
A) The first solution is to select only those courses for which you have the prerequisites.
Planning ahead by checking program requirements may help to prevent this problem in future. Plan to take courses in the appropriate sequence in order to ensure you have the prerequisites as you progress through your program.
B) If you wish to obtain special permission to enroll in a course for which you lack a prerequisite, see the section “Prerequisite Override” near the bottom of this page for instructions on how to request permission for this type of enrolment.
Class Restriction
This error message means a course is currently only available to students in a particular year.
What to Do if You Receive this Error Message:
A) Returning Undergrad Students
If your student record indicates a different year level in the fall from the winter, you may receive this error message when trying to enroll for specific courses. For example, if you are considered Year 1 in the fall and Year 2 in the winter (based on credits completed to date*), you will not be successful in enrolling in second year courses in the fall term.
You will need to obtain department assistance in order to receive overrides to enroll in the courses you want to select. You may be given an override as long as you have completed the prerequisites, and the course is still open. To obtain an override in the instance where you have met the requirements and the course(s) is still open, e-mail the Administrative Assistant of the department offering the course stating that you are a split-year student, include your full name, student ID and a list of the courses and specific sections you wish to enroll in.
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B) Post Graduate Students
If you are a post-graduate student, you will need to obtain department assistance in order to obtain overrides to enroll in the courses you want to select.
E-mail the Administrative Assistant of the department offering the course stating that you are a post graduate student, include your full name, student ID and a list of the courses and specific sections you wish to enroll in.
C) Students Transferring From Another University To Laurier
If you are a student transferring in from another institution, please be mindful that the Administrative Assistant will only be able to assist you once the Registrar’s Office has assessed your transcript and noted course equivalencies in your student record. LORIS will NOT recognize these equivalencies. You will most likely receive the Prerequisite Test Score Error. If you know your transcript has been assessed and you are aware of the transfer credit equivalencies, you will need to obtain department assistance in order to obtain overrides to enroll in the courses you want to select. Contact, via email, the Administrative Assistant of the department offering the course stating that you are a transfer student with transfer credits, include your full name, student ID and a list of the courses and specific sections you wish to enroll in.
Link Error: 1 Required (T1)
This error message means the course has a corresponding tutorial or lab that you have neglected to select in addition to the lecture.
What to Do if You Receive this Error Message:
In this instance, you must log in to LORIS and select all the required components for the course, the lecture PLUS one of the various tutorials or labs (whichever applies).
Time Conflict
This error message means the course selected is offered at the same time as a previously selected course.
What to Do if You Receive this Error Message:
You must select an alternative course that does not conflict, or drop the conflicting course and re-add another selection.
OVERRIDE REQUESTS
Capacity Override
In this instance, the course selected has reached its enrolment capacity and is CLOSED.
If a department has authorized waitlisting to be used if a course is full, you will be prompted to add yourself to the wait list. Read the waitlisting instructions. Note that not all closed courses have a wait list. Capacity overrides CANNOT be provided for courses with waitlisting.
Capacity overrides are rarely granted and only in very extenuating circumstances. Should a course be at capacity, and the capacity is physically restricted by the classroom or lab size, capacity overrides will NOT be issued.
Capacity overrides are NOT provided for OC (on-line learning) classes. The on-line learning department strictly adheres to capacity limits and does NOT issue capacity overrides.
Note: An on-line learning course will be listed in LORIS with an “OC” after the course number. These courses do not have dates and times as they are not taught in a classroom environment.
Prerequisite Override
In this instance, the student lacks a prerequisite for a specific course they wish to enroll in.
You will need to obtain department approval and assistance in order to obtain an override to enroll in the course you want to select. Contact, via email, the Administrative Assistant of the department offering the course with your request, include your full name, student ID and the course and specific section you wish to enroll in.
CHANGING A LAB OR TUTORIAL SECTION
When registering for courses that offer biweekly labs and tutorials, please note that all odd-numbered labs are offered in odd weeks (Week 1, 3, 5, etc.) and all even-numbered labs are offered in even weeks (Week 2, 4, 6, etc.).
Follow the steps below to change a lab / tutorial section on LORIS without changing the lecture section:
Drop the lecture and the lab / tutorial
Under Class Search, look up the NEW lab / tutorial
Add to Worksheet
Go back up to LECTURE and change the “dropped” to “re-enrolled”
Submit change
Follow the steps below to change a lecture section on LORIS without changing the lab / tutorial section:
Drop the lecture and the lab/ tutorial
Under Class Search, look up the NEW lecture section
Add to Worksheet
Go back up to lab / tutorial and change the “dropped” to “re-enrolled”
Submit change
IF YOU ARE STILL EXPERIENCING PROBLEMS, CONTACT THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR THE DEPARTMENT THAT THE COURSE IS BEING OFFERED IN.
