The FAS Registrar's Office offers over 60 training sessions and workshops to assist faculty and staff throughout the academic year. We also host office hours and walk-in labs in order to provide customized assistance. All of our training sessions are free and can typically be completed in under 2 hours. Most sessions are held in our office on the 4th floor of the Smith Campus Center.
Trainings are generally hosted around the same time each year to align with key dates and deadlines.
Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Resident Deans, Academic Coordinators, Undergraduate Program Coordinators
In this training, you will learn about important dates associated with the beginning of the semester. We will also provide an overview of enrollment and the student portal including topics such as: Crimson Cart, class permissions, cross-registration, service indicators/holds, student bio information, address changes, and billing.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Graduate Coordinators
In this training, you will learn about important dates associated with the beginning of the semester. We will also provide an overview of enrollment and the student portal including topics such as: Crimson Cart, class permissions, cross-registration, service indicators/holds, student bio information, address changes, and billing.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Residential House Academic Coordinators
Review the policies, procedures, and deadlines related to the upcoming Final Exam Period. This training will cover House responsibilities during final exams, as well as many of the frequently asked questions students raise regarding final exams. Topics include how and when to request AEO accommodations for a final exam, how to submit exam rescheduling requests, when an AdBoard petition is required to reschedule an exam, an overview of the In Absentia exam process, and procedures for handling student illness before and during final exams.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Academic Coordinators, Undergraduate Program Coordinators, Graduate Coordinators
In this training, we will review information about spring dates and deadlines, demonstrate how to use WorkCenters to run graduation-related reports, and discuss GradTracker statuses and department recommendations. We will also provide answers to the most common graduation-related questions that the FAS Registrar receives from students, houses, and departments.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Anyone who works with student information
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is the federal law governing privacy and access of student records. If you teach, support, advise, or otherwise interact with students and student information then you need to know the basics of FERPA.
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Duration: 2 hours
Recommended for: New Catalog Coordinators
This training provides an overview of my.harvard for Catalog Coordinators who are new to their position as well as those who would like to refresh their skills. You will learn how to create a course, schedule a new course, determine whether you need a course roll, (un)bracket a course, and (in)activate a course.
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Duration: 2 hours
Recommended for: Course Instructional Staff
Debrief the semester with our staff and review the upcoming academic schedule as it relates to the Course Catalog.
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Duration: 2 hours
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
This course teaches Catalog Coordinators how to make changes to courses in the course catalog, change a class’s details in the schedule of classes, and adjust class associations. We will review the timeline of activities and how to use the coordinator checklist.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this course, you will learn how to set up courses with a primary and seconday component, in addition to, how to number sections. The course will also cover information about class association.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
Departments should carefully consider the set up of former full year courses. Designating a course as indivisible or divisible has serious impacts on grading, credit value, repeat for credit rules, and enrollment process. In this training you will learn about each course type. We will also review how each course should look in the catalog view, schedule of classes view, and transcript view.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
The FAS Curriculum WorkCenter is a tool built in the admin side of my.harvard in order to consolidate the navigations most commonly used in the maintenance of curriculum at FAS. In this training, you will learn more about the WorkCenter and how to use the audits and reports tabs to address potential issues related to course and/or class set up, run reports, view data as it exists in your classes, and ensure accurate data.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this training, you will learn how different course set-ups impact other platforms, such as Canvas (LMS), the Sectioning Tool, and Q-Evaluations. We will also review multiple strategies for managing your course across these platforms.
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Duration: 1.hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this training, you will learn how to setup and access the course site, add/remove users, and upload course resources, such as a course syllabus or events to the site calendar.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this training, you will learn how course set up impacts how students enroll in multi-component courses, full year courses, and combined sections.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this training, you will learn the difference between cross-listed and combined sections as well as how to set them up in my.harvard.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
In this training, you will learn how to verify that scheduled classes are in compliance with the new schedule by using the course balancing tool. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Catalog Coordinators
Staff will be available to review your work and answer any questions you might have about courses. Office hours provide you with the opportunity to receive customized assistance.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Course Planners
During these sessions, we will review how to enter course room preferences for spaces controlled by the Registrar’s Office, your department-owned rooms, and department rooms that another school/department owns and has already confirmed; how to review the course room preferences you have entered; and how to edit course room preferences you have entered.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Course Planners
Staff will be available to review your work and answer any questions you might have about setting preferences. Office hours provide you with the opportunity to receive customized assistance.
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Duration: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: Course Instructional Staff
All courses must reflect accurate student enrollment in my.Harvard for all class sections. The sectioning tool helps instructional staff move students among various enrollment sections and create or edit discussion, laboratory, or other class sections. This course reviews sectioning tool features and provides a live demonstration using a sample course. You will learn how to manually move students among sections, collect student preferences, and use models to auto-section students.
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Duration: 2 hours
Recommended for: Course Instructional Staff
Meet with our staff to troubleshoot any issues with the sectioning tool and answer individual questions. All participants are expected to review sectioning instructions and video tutorials prior to attending so that our staff can provide customized support. Please bring a laptop to the session, as computers are not provided.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: House Administrators, Department Administrators
Have you had a change in faculty dean or director of studies? Do you have a new ADUS in your department or a resident dean going on sabbatical? Department Administrators and House Administrators are welcome to this training to learn how to maintain the list of key leadership positions updated in my.harvard. Advising groups are the mechanism to give chairs, directors, deans, and administrators access to student records and related functions in my.harvard.
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Duration: 1 hour
Recommended for: Directors of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Program Administrators
This training is designed for Undergraduate Program Administrators and Directors/Assistant Directors of Undergraduate Studies. It will provide an overview of the declaration of concentration tool, review the deadline and timing of this College requirement, and discuss options for plans of study.
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