During class scheduling, departments can choose to require a "department approval" for all students to be able to register for a class. These are not student holds and they are not prerequisites that are assigned during curriculum development. They simply provide departments a way to manage class registration for reasons such as the following:
Any instructor assigned to a banner section has the ability to provide this override using the Course Section Authorization Tool. Instructors must take care to use the tool in accordance with departmental practice.
For the Course Section Authorization Tool. Videos included!
What exactly does the department approval do (and not do)?
What it does:
A "department approval" is a restriction that departments can apply to specific course sections. Instructors can use the Course Section Authorization Tool to create a banner override for a field within course section details called "Special Approval". Within this field is where the "department approval" restriction resides. The tool overrides that requirement ONLY!
What it does not do:
A department approval does not:
How to submit a department approval (Video!)
How to review previously-submitted approvals
NOTE: An 'RW' or 'RE' in the Status column means the student has registered. If the column is blank, the student has not yet registered.
How to rescind a department approval
What do the terms "Available", "Future", and "Expired" at the top of the cards mean?
What does "None of your sections currently require late add or departmental approval" mean?
This means one of two things:
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