Student online registration made available

Soon the long lines waiting to register at Franklin Hall will be a distant memory. So will the endless telephone voice menus to drop a class.\nNow registration is just a click away.\nUniversity officials announced last week that students will be able to register for their fall 2001 courses at a new Web site, regweb.indiana.edu. The Web site adapts the computer system that has been used in the registration center to the Internet.\nLaurie Sullivan, acting director of University Information Systems for University Information Technology Services, said the program lets Web browsers connect directly to the mainframe computers that house registration information.\nStudents will be able to register at the same time they would have been able to do so at Franklin Hall, Sullivan said.\n"Campus registrars will phase in this new service throughout the spring semester for the fall 2001 registration period," she said. "Students can register as soon as their appointment times will allow. Individual student eligibility to register will continue to be determined by the dean of the school in which the student is enrolled."\nThe Web site will not be open 24 hours a day, but will operate weekdays from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nSenior Angela Ayalin said although she will not have to register for fall classes, she enjoyed registering offline.\n"I liked it the way we had it," she said. "We do so much online already. I liked going to the registrar's office to register; it felt more official."\nStudents can still construct their schedules in the registration center and via telephone.\n"It will provide yet another option that students can choose from," said Brian Voss, associate vice president of information technology. "Modernization of our systems is needed, and the benefits that both the students and the institution will receive are great"