Class Registration – Winter Jumpstart Recording 2017
Hi everyone!
Welcome to today’s class registration jumpstart. My name is Christine. I am a peer mentor here
at BYU. I am senior studying Theater Education. We are so excited for you to join us here at
BYU, and we’re going to go over a couple of things today--particularly how to register for
classes.
You’ll see there are a couple of questions up here on the board. Take a second and look at
them. While you’re doing that I’ll let you know that this presentation is a recording. It’s one of
four recordings we have that we recommend you watch before coming to BYU. One is a
General Welcome recording with some overview, one is Technology Essentials, and one is
Financial Planning.
Since this is a recording, we won’t be able to fill out these questions, but we wanted to draw
your attention to them. These are some questions to get you thinking about what you need to
start doing before you come to BYU, assess where you’re already at, and kind of give you a
small idea of what we’re going to be talking about today.
“How many patrons enter the BYU library each day?”
The answer is 10,000, so there are a lot of people in the library. We highly
recommend you check it out when you get here.
“When was the Y put on the mountain east of campus?”
It was in 1906, so it’s been there for quite some time.
“What is the top selling BYU-produced food item?”
It is chocolate milk, and it is delicious. So definitely try it out.
And this last question is just to show you the many varieties of students who are coming
to BYU this winter. The majority of you will be transfer students and returned missionaries, but
we’ll still have a decent-sized group of just out of high school freshmen and pre-mission
students. And of course there are a few parents watching this presentation to make sure their
students have everything important all figured out.
I am going to switch over and share my screen with you all. Just as an overview of what we’re
going to talk about today. We’re going to talk about the First-Year Mentoring program. We’re
going to talk about academic advisement and your academic advisor and how that works. What
to do with transfer credit. We’re going to go over MyMap, which is the website used to register
for classes, and a couple other things that you need to do to prepare for the semester, along
with some information about OneStop Student Services, New Student Orientation, and how to
set up a BYU email.
First Year Mentoring
So First-Year Mentoring is here to help you get connected and have the best first-year
experience possible. It is staffed with trained upperclassmen who are here to answer any
questions you may have and connect you to resources and basically help you with anything you
may need. All new students are provided with a mentor. Transfer students are not necessarily
assigned a mentor, but you can request one. You should be getting an email from your peer
mentor in a few weeks. Another service that Mentoring offers is mentored courses. Mentored
courses are exactly the same, content-wise, as the other classes. They’re just classes that are
specifically reserved in high-demand courses that first-year students can sign up for since you
register for classes a little bit later. There are only a few mentored class seats available in winter
semester. Those are going to be in American Heritage, Writing 150, and Classic Civ 241, which
is Greek and Roman Mythology.
Transfer students, if you are interested in this, you’ll need to contact the First-Year Mentoring
office with a permission to add code in order to sign up for a mentored course, and there will be
more mentored courses available in spring, summer, and fall if you are interested.
Academic Advisement
The next thing we’re going to talk about is Academic Advisement. BYU has 10 colleges which
each house certain majors. Kind of like how a ward is in a stake, a major is within a college. So
for example if you are a food science major, you would fall within the college of Life Sciences.
Each college has its own academic center with academic advisors, and academic advisors are
experts in class planning and major selection within that area. We highly recommend you talk to
them if you have any questions about your specific major. To check out which majors are in
which college, go to advisement.byu.edu. And if you don’t have a major yet, that is totally fine,
you can contact the University Advisement Office and they help students who are undecided
majors, and you can find out more about them at universityadvisement.byu.edu.
Transfer Credit
A lot of you are coming to BYU with some form of transfer credit, whether that’s through AP or
IB scores, or whether it’s credit from another college. If you do have transfer credit it is your
responsibility to make sure it shows up, and we’ll show you a little bit later in the presentation
where on MyMap you can see your transfer credits, but if they are not showing up or if you have
any questions about your transfer credits, make sure to contact the Transfer Evaluation Office at
transfer.byu.edu.
MyMap
MyMap is the website where you will register for classes and MyMap stands for My Major
Academic Plan. On MyMap you can find a summary of your academic work so far, you can plan
out future classes, and you can organize your classes into which semesters you would like to
take them. Probably most important to you right now, is MyMap is where you can register for
classes.
So I’m actually going to leave this presentation real quick and we’re going to head over to
MyMap. So if I go to MyByu, and then click right here under campus resources on MyMap, it will
take you to MyMap. And then it will ask you to sign in. Right now I’m using a fake account. Our
student is Cosmette Ithaca, because if I use my account it wouldn’t look like an incoming
freshman's but this will look a little bit closer to what your account will look like.
So we’re going to go over a couple things here on this first page of MyMap and what it means.
So over here we have the profile, we have Cosmette and her name and her email. Right here,
this update button, is where Cosmette would update her personal information and where you
would update your contact information. It’s very important that you keep this up to date and
make sure that it’s yours and not your mom’s or your dad’s or your sibling’s. That way if anyone
from BYU needs to get in contact with you, they’re able to reach you.
Here you’ll see a couple of boxes. If the boxes are green that means everything is good and
ready to go. If the boxes are red that means there is an issue that you need to take care of. And
where you see these little grey question marks, that is where if you have a question about the
section you can learn more by clicking on it. So for instance, if on account holds, it was red, I
could click this question mark to find out why I had a hold on my account and how I could go
about resolving it.
Here you will see this says Academic Standing. This is your grades, so if you fall below a 2.0
you will be put on academic probation, but Cosmette right now is in good standing so she
doesn’t need to worry about that. Account holds: These are mainly registration holds, such as
not paying tuition, if you don’t have your TB test documentation, if you’ve been overseas, or if
you don’t have your ecclesiastical endorsement.
Underneath is your ecclesiastical endorsement. And this date is the last semester that you are
eligible to register for classes. So if the date said Fall 2015, then you would not be eligible to
register for Winter 2016, until you renew you Ecclesiastical Endorsement.
Okay, the next thing we’re going to take a look at is to the right on academic programs. We can
see here that Cosmette is an English Major. Everyone’s major is broken up into two parts. There
is the University Core G.E. classes which are right here, and then your Major. And also you can
see here is the Advisement Center Information for the College of Humanities which English falls
under. And if we click here on English, it will take us to the Major Map for English, and here we
see all the classes that are required for an English Major. And if you scroll down here there is a
suggested sequence of courses. So the department has gone through and listed all the
suggested order in which you should take the classes taking into account prerequisites, and
when classes are offered. So you don’t have to follow this exactly but it’s a great starting off
place, especially if you aren’t sure which classes you want to take your first semester here.
Coming down to credits, you can see all of your credits and your GPA including your AP and IB
credits. You will need a total of 120 total earned hours to graduate. So if you’re coming to BYU
with no previous credits, to graduate in four years or eight semesters, you’ll need to average
about 15 credits a semester. So AP should appear here on your transcript. If you have
questions transfer credit office.
And if you click right here on “My Grades” this will take you to your grade report. Most of you
won’t have any grades yet because you haven’t been here but we can see that we have a
couple of credits from a community college that Cosmette attended and so if that's your
situation you will see those there.
If you click on “My Progress Report” this is the official university progress report which shows all
of the requirements. Your transfer and AP credits should show up here, once again if they are
missing contact the transfer evaluations office. So if we scroll through we can see all of the
classes that Cosmette needs to take and her grades in them.
Okay we are gonna come over here to the tools on the left hand side and there are just a couple
things to be aware of. One is “My Progress Report” which is also found here, another really cool
thing that you can do is explore other majors and minors. So if you are thinking about switching
over to a different major and minor and you click on it it will show you all of the classes required
for that major or minor and it will also tell you what credits you have completed and what it
would take for you to complete that different major or minor. Another thing that you can do is
change your major or minor online. You can only do this before you come to campus. Once you
come to campus you will have to fill out an official form. But this is something that you can do on
myMap until the first day of class.
Another thing to be aware of is the class catalog and class schedule so if you click here on
courses and let's go with Accounting 200: Principles of Accounting, maybe Cosmette is
interested in taking this we can find out a little bit more about the class. So we can see that it is
three credit hours, it is taught in the fall, winter, and spring and it is also taught as independent
study. And we can see some of the course outcomes so what Cosmette can expect to learn in
the class. So if you wanna know a little bit more about what to expect in a class and a little more
information you can click on the catalog and class schedule.
Also here on “Academic Calendar” this lets you know about university dates holidays and finals
this helps you know what to plan for especially when you are reserving plane tickets or anything
like that.
We are going to switch over to the “Plan Courses” tab and under the planning tab you will see
an outline for planning on the left hand side. You can plan your major classes and your core
classes. Your date for registration should also be posted. You can see Cosmette’s right here.
Yours should be sometime in early November. So Cosmette’s is November 2nd at 12 AM MDT
so keep that in mind if you are in a different time zone, it is in MDT. And 12 AM on the 2nd
would be like staying up until midnight on the night of the 1st until it turns to the 2nd and that's
when Cosmette could register for her classes.
Okay, so the change major thing that I talked about is down here, you can only see it on
planned courses, which is why it wasn't showing up on student summary. We are gonna take a
look at the actual planned courses here. We are gonna click on detailed planning mode; this
allows us to see all the classes and more detailed information about them. So we are gonna
look at the GE courses. General Education requirements are there to help you learn a little bit
about a lot of different subjects. You’ll see these little boxes here: requirements with a red circle
means they haven’t been completed yet, requirements with a green circle and a check mark
mean they have been completed and if there is a green exclamation mark that means that the
class double counts, so maybe it counts for more than one GE or it counts for a GE and a class
in your major and you can click on it to find out about what it may double count for.
Another really cool feature is that you can add notes here in planning mode to remind yourself
of maybe classes you want to take. This is particularly helpful if you are planning on leaving on
a mission and you want your parents to register for you you can leave notes for your parents
reminding them what classes you want to take. So, for example Cosmette has noted right here
that she wants to take American Heritage with Professor Kimball. And if she wanted to add
another note she could click right here and say you know maybe she wants to take this class
during winter 2017 and she just wants to tell herself that, and she can add that note right there,
and if she wants to get rid of the note she can just click the little trashcan. So that is a super
helpful feature.
Ok, we’re going to go through and actually show you how to plan for the physical science
requirement. So, if you go into physical science and go into this blue plan box...and we’ll see
that there are lots of options for physical science. There are so many options because every
student is different and every major has different requirements, and you’ll choose classes
depending on what your major is. So if you are going into a more science heavy major maybe
you would want to take principles of chemistry or a more in depth science class. But Cosmette
is an English major so she is just going to take the general physical science requirement. So we
are going to click right here on physical science and it will tell us a little bit of information about
the class. And then if we click right here on this plan button and we select physical science, it
will now be planned. And we can actually select which semester she wants to take it. So she is
going to take it winter 2017. You tell you can plan out pretty far, so you can plan out all of your
classes until you graduate. This doesn’t mean that she is registered for the class, it just means
that she is planning to take this class in winter of 2017, and it’s kind of like a note to herself. If
she decides that she doesn’t want to take it then, or that she doesn’t want to take this class,
then you can click this trash can right here, and it will remove the course. And that is how we go
about planning the requirement for physical science.
Ok, we are going to switch over to the register tab, and again the links on the left column right
here will take you to the semester that you are trying to register for, so we want to do winter
2017 and we click on it and it will take us right there. You can also see your registration priority
deadline date right here so again November 2 is when she can begin to register; she can
register after that, but this is the first day that she can register. Your registration date is decided
completely randomly your first semester, this applies to all transfer students, returned
missionaries, any new students. After your first semester, registration is organized by the
number of credits you have. So this allows seniors to register first to help everyone graduate on
time. So one day that will be you!
There are a couple of ways to select classes, we’re going to go ahead and show you those. The
first is if we click here on this planned courses button, and we want to take physical science, we
can click right here on register, and it will immediately take us to the registration page for
physical science. There’s some information up here about the physical science class, and then
we’ll see a couple of columns here. This column right here with the A’s , this is in order to add a
class, and you’d click on that A to add a class. This P, right here, is if you would need a
permission to add code, which you would get from the professor. You’d click here and you’d
input the permission to add code. However, physical science doesn’t have a permission to add
code, so Cosmette doesn’t need to worry about that. The next column is the section number. All
of the classes have the same content, the section is just to divide up what time the class is
taught at. Here in seats available, this is how many people, how many seats are left in the class.
And the class size is how many people total can be in the class. Waitlist size: if the class is
already full, you can sign up to be on the waitlist. You can wait list and sign up for another class
time if you want, and then if you get into the waitlisted section, you’ll automatically be dropped
from the other class, unless it is an R class, which means that class can be repeated. But
physical science isn’t an R class, so we don’t need to worry about that. It is your responsibility to
take care of any holds that may prevent a waitlist from being added to your class schedule. And
waitlisted classes will be dropped five days into the semester at the add-drop deadline. So if you
haven’t been added from the waitlist at that point, then you won’t be able to take that class that
semester. And once you’re registered for a class, you are expected to be in that class, and you
will receive a grade for that class.
The next column over here is credit hours, this shows that physical science is worth 3 credit
hours. Next, class period, this is the time when it’s offered. So it’s 9:00-9:50, on Monday,
Wednesday, Friday. And you’ll notice there is a second line here. And so that is for the lab hour
for that class. Lab hours are when you’ll go in and meet with your TA’s and do problems and
things like that. You are expected to go to the lab for a class you sign up for. So there’s two
lines, one is the lab hour, and this is the lecture section. You are expected to attend both of
those. Here you will see the room number and the building in which it’s located, and finally the
instructor.
So if Cosmette wanted to add that class, we’d click on the A and it asks if we want to add it, and
we want to add it. And its not letting us register right now because it’s not Cosmette’s
registration deadline. But if it was, it would let us add it. So that is one way of going and adding
a class. And you can just click “register” here under all these planned courses you’ve already
done.
Another way is to do it manually. So you click right here on add a class and select a teaching
area. We want physical science, so we’re going to scroll down to physical science and hit go.
Select course. We want physical science 100, and it will automatically take us to the same
page, and we register just the same as we did before.
The last way to register for classes is if you want to add a mentored course. You’d click on this
gray mentored course button. And under select an envelope time, you’d select mentoring.
Select envelope category, maybe we want to take American heritage through mentoring. And
here we would see these seats that are open in American Heritage through mentoring and we
could add them.
So those are our three ways that we can register for classes. A couple of things: once you’ve
registered for classes, up here you’ll be able to see your schedule. Again, Cosmette isn’t
registered for classes, so we can’t see that yet. But once you’re registered for classes, you can
click and see your class schedule. If classes are in red, that means your classes are
overlapping, and unless you are Hermione Granger and you have a time turner and can be in
two places at once, you’re going to have to re-do your class schedule, because you can’t be in
two places at once! A couple of things to keep in mind: 12 credits is the minimum for all
students. The max is 18 which is a lot of credits. Keep that in mind. If you are on a BYU
scholarship, you are required to have a minimum of 14 credits. A couple other factors to
consider: the general policy is that for every credit hour of class, expect about two hours of
homework and studying outside of class. So, for example, if you were taking 15 credits, you
could expect about 30 hours a week of outside class-work. Also, if you are working, or want to
get involved in extracurricular activities such as arts, sports, music, etc., you are going to need
time for that. You also need time to eat sleep, socialize, etc. Those are all important parts of the
BYU experience. We want you to be happy and healthy. I know my first year, I forgot to
schedule in a lunch break, I was not very happy. So make sure you do that for yourself.
And you can add and drop classes all the way up until the add/drop deadline, which is January
17th, and it’s wise to go to all of your possible classes during that week so you don’t fall behind,
because you will be held responsible for all the material covered that week. But if you decide to
change your schedule that first week and drop a class , you will not be penalized.
I am going to leave MyMap now and go back to the presentation. We’re going to talk really
quickly about a couple of other things. The first is Onestop. Onestop is a really helpful website
with a bunch of helpful things about BYU. They have several checklists. Depending on your
situation, a couple that may be particularly helpful for you right now are: the just admitted
transfer student checklist, the returned missionary checklist, the just admitted new student
freshman, and the missionary deferment checklist. And you can find all of these online at
onestop.byu.edu. And we will also have a link available at the end of this presentation.
The next thing we want to make you aware of is New Student Orientation. New Student
Orientation is an exciting one-day event for all incoming winter students. It is free of charge, and
you can register at fye.byu.edu starting in November. And at new student orientation, you can
meet mentors, and hear from offices around campus, take a tour, go on several activities. It is
super fun! I have been to NSO about 5 times as a mentor, and I still have fun and learn
something new every time. So I would highly recommend coming to NSO if at all possible.
The next thing to be aware of, is email. Make sure you have the right email address listed in
your contact information. We showed you how to update that on MyMap. Check it often since
you will be getting information from a variety of people on campus. Also, if you are interested in
a BYU alias you can find out about that at byu.net or studentbody.byu.edu or contact the FirstYear Mentoring office for more information.
The last thing that we’re going to talk about is guest access. If you’re leaving on a mission and
you want your parents to have access to your registration and accounts for BYU you need to set
up guest access. This allows your parents to create their own login information and it allows
BYU employees to talk to them when they have questions since federal laws prohibit BYU
employees from discussing your information without giving them permission. So by setting up
guest access, you are giving your parents permission to do that.
Alright, we’re going to jump back over to the screen. We have one last poll. Go ahead and take
a look at that. A couple of key take aways: make sure to register for classes on your priority
registration date (again that should be early in November), make sure to complete the First Year
Writing and American Heritage requirements within your first year at BYU, also sign up for one
mentored course (seats are limited in Winter Semester but there will be more available in
Spring, Summer, and Fall if you are interested).
If you have any questions feel to contact the First Year mentoring office and please make sure
to check out the other jumpstart recordings available at fye.byu.edu. There is one on a general
overview, technology essentials and financial planning.
For out our last poll- hopefully you will learn the byu fight song if you don’t know it already,
especially if you are involved in BYU sporting events.
And the person who was not a former BYU president is Mitt Romney, fun fact.
So over here you see we have some of the websites we talked about during this presentation,
as well as a BYU contact sheet.
Again, if you have any questions feel free to contact the First Year Mentoring office.
Thank you so much, good luck with registration, and welcome to BYU!