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Melissa Bishop/DoIT
Last Modified 08/24/2004 12:35:13 PM EDT
If you are using Internet Explorer and your screenshots look like this: 
Hold your mouse over the graphic and look for the expand button: on the bottom right corner of the graphic as in:
Click on the button and your screenshot will be nice and clear: 
Class Search
Select Class Search Link. It will bring you into the Class Search panel.
- To then select a Term, Click search icon
. It will take you into the Look Up Term Panel. Hit the
button.
- The Search Results will list the most recent term first (four maximum)
- Select Term desired. (double click)
- Use Tab key and tab to Career. Select Career based on course you are searching for (undergraduate, graduate, dental, medical). You can then select, a Basic Search (limited fields) or you can select an Advanced Search (more critieria).
- Basic Search Panel & Advanced Search - Use Drop down arrows as desired in your search.
- Limit your search. Select at least two criteria in your search.
- Then hit the SEARCH button at the bottom of the page.
- Advanced Search has additional fields to search by.
Class Numbers and Components
Each section has a unique class number. For example, MUS 119:R02 (recitation 2) may have the class number 3925. The class number will be displayed when you use the CLASS SEARCH function to locate a class. Use this number to enroll in the class whether you enroll through the Web or the phone system.
The “component” defines the kind of class it is. Each course has at least one “component”, e.g., a lecture, a seminar, a tutorial. Many courses have multiple components, e.g., lecture, plus recitation and lab.
You can tell what kind of component the section is simply by the section number:
- 01 = LEC lecture or ELC evening lecture (evening lectures have no attached recitations)
- L01 = LAB laboratory
- R01 = REC recitation
- S01 = SEM seminar
- T01 = TUT tutorial
- V01 = SUP supervision, for student teaching courses
- C01 = CLN clinical experience
- If a course consists of only one component, e.g., seminar, that will be the enrollment component.
- If the course consists of a lecture and recitations, the recitation will be the enrollment component.
- If the course consists of a lecture, recitations, and labs, the LABS will be the enrollment component.
- In almost every case, selecting the enrollment component will automatically enroll you in the related components, e.g., if you select LAB L03, you’ll be automatically enrolled in recitation R03 and in lecture 01.
It’s important in selecting a section such as a recitation to be aware that the recitation is going to autoenroll you into a lecture. In the printed class schedule, classes are grouped by their related components, so you can see the lecture and all the recitations and labs associated with it. But in the SOLAR System, the only way you know what section a recitation or lab autoenrolls into is by doing a class search and then clicking on that section to view the related details to see the autoenroll sections.
If you need to select more than one component for a course, you’ll be told to do so by the Class Notes. When enrolling in these courses, always enter the class number for the enrollment component (usually LAB) first, then enter the lecture and recitation class numbers in the related components field. If you fail to enroll for all components, you will receive an error message and will not be able to continue enrolling until you select each related class.