“Last year I filled in wrong bubbles and was registered for a class I didn’t mean to take,” Kathryn G. Lawrence ’08 said.

“The new online application does eliminate the inadvertent selection of an incorrect course on the part of the students,” Kane wrote in an e-mail. “The Registrar’s Office was able to process all of the enrollment data this term without a single processing error.”

Some students said they feared the online study card system might eliminate the shopping period.

But Kane said there is no danger of that.

“The new applications were not designed to threaten or eliminate the shopping period,” Kane wrote. “Indeed, they were developed to enhance the process. From what I’ve seen at Harvard thus far, preregistration is not a option.”

Kane said the Registrar’s Office will make decisions in the next few weeks regarding additional initiatives it could focus on in the coming year.

“Faculty have been asking for electronic submission of grades, students have been asking for electronic submission of transcript requests, and there are also the enhancements that will need to be made to online registration and course enrollment,” Kane wrote. “Not everything can be accomplished at once, but we will make steady progress toward moving these processes online.”