The Registrar's new Web-based sectioning programs are now in place, and a few kinks have caused major problems in at least three courses this semester.
The programs, which forced several course heads to register hundreds of students by hand, should now be fixed, Registrar Arlene Becella said yesterday.
For the first two days of sectioning, the Expository Writing Program's Web site was unstable because the server was not prepared for so many students to log on simultaneously, according to program administrator Christina Grenier.
Many students could not get onto the program before it was turned off, and 200 first-years had to section afterwards on paper.
"In the future [the program] will run much better than it did the first time around," Grenier said.
Biological Sciences 10, "Introductory Molecular Biology" (BS10), also had problems with the new sectioning system, including lost entries and multiple crashes.
Course head TF Nicole King wrote in an e-mail message that she had to assign 290 students to sections by hand.
According to Becella, benefits of the new system will be more apparent next semester, as glitches are ironed out.
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