Enrollment Controls
Enrollment controls are class setup items that departments can use to implement various types of constraints on student enrollment.
Reserve Caps
Reserve caps are time-sensitive restrictions that start and expire at specific times.
Restrictions are only set up on the class section level and must work in tandem with course-level restrictions. Course-level restrictions trump any section-level restrictions.
Requests are provided by the dean to academic scheduling via email.
Reserve caps are added and altered only by academic scheduling via reserve cap request form.
Typically, due (or put in place) after review phase but by the start of continuing student registration.
Changes after submission are strongly discouraged, as they can affect the department’s ability to change enrollment caps later.
Save Seats
Holds seats during continuing student fall registration so they will be available for freshmen enrollment. They are repopulated in late May and may be used in tandem with reserve caps.
Typically used for fall classes where high first-year enrollment is expected.
Requests are provided by the dean to academic scheduling via email.
The save seats deadline is in late March and is used only for fall semester when first-year student enrollment occurs over the summer.
Waitlist Resequencing
Repositions students on the waitlist based on criteria set by the department (e.g., plan code, academic level). Does not apply restrictions to enrollment.
Academic scheduling rolls from like term, when possible, then set up by department schedulers in Campus Solutions using the waitlist resequencing instructions.
Anytime.
However, waitlist processing is suspended during first-year student enrollment windows in the summer for everyone so waitlist resequencing will not work, and undergrad students cannot be added to the waitlist. (Grad students can be added to the waitlist at this time but will not be repositioned).
Department Consent
Department consent may be used if a department wants to control enrollment. (E.g., a class almost full but the department is aware of students who may need to take the class.)
This enrollment control prevents students from adding and dropping a class through self-service when the department would like to do this on their behalf instead. Not to be used with other enrollment controls as students are not enrolling themselves.
The department scheduler makes this change at the section level in CLSS.
Anytime using 800 section numbers, which can be changed at a later time.
The scheduler can change department consent at any time in CLSS without changing the section number.
Student-Specific Permissions
Student-specific permissions are those granted to specific students to override restrictions or enrollment controls on a class. These work best if the department can identify which students they want to make exemptions for (student ID numbers can be provided by list).
For more information, visit our Add or Drop Permissions page.
The department scheduler. This is not a function of academic scheduling.
Anytime between when a class is scheduled and the Add/Drop deadline.