Students won’t be the only people affected by the new registration system being used for Fall 2007 courses.

Advisers are also going to have to learn how to use the new system to help their advisees register for the fall.

Registrar Sue Harvey said adviser training has been offered throughout the month of February and will continue as long as there’s a request for it.

“We basically take them through the Banner Self Service module for advisers,” Harvey said. Banner is the new university information system currently being implemented in phases throughout the university.

“A lot of the student systems will be phased in over the next couple of months,” said Bill Witsman, director of the Enterprise Information System Enhancement project, also known as Banner.

One of those systems will allow advisers to access student’s academic transcripts through Banner. Harvey expects that system to be available around March 15.

“We do have to have the academic history loaded to work with registration,” she said.

Advisers will be using Self Service, which is a secure Web site to assist students with registration. Harvey said advisers will be able to access information for all students as long as they sign a student-privacy act.

“There were several departments that requested that their advisers be given wider access,” than their individual departments, Harvey said. “So we’re still safeguarding (student) information.”

Harvey said training will continue for other topics on Banner like entering grades as the system continues to be updated.

“This is like a big puzzle with the pieces starting to fit into place,” she said.

Advisers and students will still use the old PAWS system to register for summer courses.

Witsman expects all of the PAWS systems to be used through Banner by next fall.

“After the summer, I think we determined we can get rid of the old stuff,” he said. “In the next few months we’re phasing this stuff in.”