\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI was trying to register for classes and the times kept changing,\u201d she says. \u201cI actually had to go talk to the chair of the program to make sure that I could get into the programs that I originally thought, because everything filled up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gislason says Camlink on the whole is a \u201csilly concept.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy couldn\u2019t we do it through D2L or something that we use daily, rather than a third or fourth party? It\u2019s kind of inconvenient to students,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
First-year Criminal Justice student Ryan Basi says he was also impacted by Camlink crashing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIt was hard to register for classes. Now that they say the website\u2019s up, I know everyone\u2019s just waiting to register,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m going to be on the waiting list, or I won\u2019t be able to get a lot of my classes that I wanted to get.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBasi says his overall experience with Camlink has been okay, but it can be confusing at times.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s been helpful, too,\u201d he says. \u201cI just hope they can make sure that the website doesn\u2019t crash like it has been; it kind of sucks for the students to have to deal with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHarris says that as part of the Camlink improvement plan, the college will be removing web declare and getting rid of the college\u2019s customized registration process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cSome of the things we\u2019re looking at toward the future will be things like two-term registration, so when you register in the summer, you\u2019re going to be registering for fall and winter at the same time,\u201d he says. \u201cUltimately what we\u2019re looking to do is get rid of the stuff that we have created over time that has added increased complexity to the system, and has also made things more confusing for students.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHarris says the college is looking to use the systems in the way that they were designed to be used.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe way that we\u2019re doing the registration windows right now are based on program, and we\u2019re looking at other practices that we think might be more fair and reasonable and clear for students,\u201d says Harris.<\/p>\n
Harris says only about a handful of students were not able to get into the courses they needed because of the crash; there were not more students than usual who were unable to get into the courses they needed because of this, he says.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re dealing with that on a case-by-case basis,\u201d says Harris. \u201cWe need to do a better job of making sure that students are communicated with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shortly after Camlink crashed on October 11, an email was sent to impacted students at 2:13 pm informing them that their new registration time was that day at 2:30 pm. Harris says that the college is looking at options such as texting to improve its communication with students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have catastrophic things like this happen and we need to be able to communicate with students quickly,\u201d says Harris, \u201cemail when they\u2019re in class may not be the best way to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHarris says that some students wanted to move the registration cycle to the next day, but that would make things more unfair, he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have meant all students in the registration cycle were impacted, and we\u2019re trying to make sure that the impact was on as few students as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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