Over the past two weeks, 6,349 Harvard students in 40 courses sectioned via Web sites.
In its old system, the Registrar's Office did not have any record of how many sections each class had or how many people were in each section.
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In the near future, FAS officials will be able "to use the sectioning information to make decisions about section sizes, the number of TFs needed for a course and the number of classrooms needed for a course and its section," Becella wrote in an e-mail message.
"Changes in student information--such as telephone number--could be reported by section to course head and TF and would help keep records up-to-date," she added.