Advisors have the important task of providing holistic support to their students, yet these efforts are often sidelined by time-consuming administrative tasks. Building individualized class schedules for each student is a tedious process that can consume most of the advisors’ time, especially during peak registration times like new student orientation.
When advisors are overwhelmed by the manual tasks involved in creating class schedules for new students, they are unable to dedicate time to the more relational aspects of their work, which are crucial for guiding students to persist and graduate. Building relationships and offering proactive outreach are key to successful academic advising, but these efforts can fall to the wayside if advisors lack sufficient time.
To save time and ease new student registration, advisors can turn to solutions like Civitas Learning’s intuitive advisor registration capabilities to help take some of the administrative burden that inhibits them from providing holistic guidance. When administrative tasks pile up during peak registration times, advisors can use digital registration tools to preload specific courses and breaks to student schedules. With highly intelligent software, it becomes easy for advisors to build schedules for specific student groups and their unique schedules, whether it’s first-year students, honors students, athletes, or living learning community participants.
With preloaded courses, administrators can significantly reduce the time spent on manual tasks, thereby streamlining new student registration. This approach not only lightens the load of administrative work but also simplifies the registration process for new students, ensuring they enroll in the necessary courses for their academic plan. The time saved from preloading courses can then be redirected towards addressing students’ evolving needs and questions, and making tailored adjustments to each plan as concerns or requests arise, fostering a more productive and efficient advising process.
With a schedule preloader, advisors can input all required courses and necessary breaks that students in different groups will need–whether it’s specific LLC courses, mandatory first-year courses, or practice breaks for athletes. This approach saves advisors from manually building student schedules, and ensures students remain on track for on-time graduation.
Using an intuitive registration tool like Civitas Learning’s Academic Planning and Student Scheduling, advisors can create personalized schedules at scale. To build student schedules in bulk, advisors can use the software’s registration worksheet capabilities to create schedules for various student groups. To offer more hands-on assistance in students’ registration, or make strategic adjustments to an academic schedule, advisors can login as a particular student and add courses directly to a student’s schedule, or spot check their courses to make sure they’re on track.
With intuitive scheduling capabilities, advisors can redirect their time away from administrative tasks toward hands-on help and proactive student support. To learn more about how preloaded courses can save time for your advisors and ease new student registration, watch Civitas Learning’s Academic Planning and Scheduling in action.
