Registration FAQ for Faculty
Canvas is not the official record of enrollment. Canvas receives information from both shopping interest and actual enrollment. Canvas updates periodically throughout the day and on a different cadence than the course demand statistics.
During the Add/Drop period, Yale College students may submit their final schedule at any time. Once they do so, you can see their final schedule in both the Student Profile system and the Degree Audit system.
No. Students are insructed and expected to set up an advising meeting with their adviser, but you do not need to approve their schedule. After students submit their prelminary course schedule, they are prompted to send to their adviser a copy of it. As the adviser, you will merely be asked if the student consulted you.
Canvas is used by most schools at Yale and each school may have their own distinct registration period. As students submit their final schedules they convert from a shopper status to an enrolled status. Students appearing as shoppers either have not submitted their final schedule or have been manually added as a shopper to the Canvas course site. When all schools have finished their enrollment periods, Canvas will delete shoppers from the course sites.
No, fall 2020 and spring 2021 course enrollment are temporary measures to accommodate the need for social distancing and a fully electronic registration system. A new registration system for Yale College is currently in the works and will be used for fall 2021 course enrollment. There will continue to be a preliminary schedule period and add/drop period.
Questions related exclusively to the use of Canvas should be directed to the Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning at askpoorvucenter@yale.edu
The best way to reach the Registrar’s Office is by emailing registrar@yale.edu
The FAS Dean’s Office website hosts FAQs for FAS faculty.