Registrar's Office

Currently, all classes are using the waitlist. If a class is closed that is NOT on this list, you must contact the academic department for instructions on if you can still register for the course.

The current capacity for the waitlist has been set at 100 students.

Students are placed on the waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis – no exceptions.

The waitlist is visible in Eagle Online under “Look Up Classes” right next to the section’s capacity. You can see it when you’re searching for open sections.

If you want to get onto the waitlist, you must enter the section’s CRN (course registration number) into the Add Classes Worksheet located under the Add/Drop Classes link in Eagle Online. Select “Register” on the worksheet once you’ve typed in the CRN(s) and Eagle Online will prompt you to join the waitlist since the class is closed.

That means waitlist is not available on that course. You will need to contact the academic department for instructions on how to get into that closed section.

Even on the waitlist, all the same registration rules apply . So if a class requires that you have passed ENGL 1010 & 1020 to take it, or that you are a senior, or is reserved for Music majors only – if you don’t meet those criteria, you cannot register for the course OR sign up on the electronic waitlist. However, if you are given a permit from the department to override the requirement, like a prerequisite, you will be able to sign up for the waitlist.

You are instantly notified what number you have on the waitlist right after you sign up. You can also check your status 24/7 via Eagle Online on your Student Schedule to see if you’ve moved on the list. No need to call or email departments!!

The system automatically will update students’ waitlist positions based on the registration activity that has occurred that day.

Once a waitlist notification email is sent, students have exactly 24 hours to claim the open spot before they are dropped from the waitlist and the seat is offered to the next student on the list.

Unfortunately, you can’t. It is your responsibility to check your email regularly (even during the summer) if you know you are waiting for information about the waitlist. The status of your waitlist position is available 24/7 in Eagle Online. If you miss your 24 hour window to add a course, you are dropped from the waitlist, so you must add yourself back to the waitlist using Eagle Online. You will be at the bottom of the list.

Waitlist will only notify you about registering for a course using your Tennessee Tech email; there are no other options. You can have your Tennessee Tech email forwarded to a personal account as an alternative. 

Yes – you can sign up to be waitlisted on multiple sections of the same course.

Unfortunately, no. Even with the waitlist, you are required to add both the lecture and the lab at the same time to register for a linked course. If a seat opens up in the lecture but NOT in the lab you requested (or vice-versa), you WILL NOT be able to add the one without the other. If the lab you are waitlisted for does not open up within the 24 hour window you have to register for the lecture, you will lose your seat in the lecture. The best way to try to prevent this is to register for more than one lecture/lab combination to give yourself multiple chances to get into the class.

Yes, you can. However if you are enrolled in a course’s section and attempt to register for different section of the same course after being prompted by the waitlist, you will not be able to add the section you want without first dropping the section you are currently enrolled in.

Once a section closes and the waitlist is activated, any seats that open up for that section are assigned to the people on the waitlist. So when you see one open seat for a section that you are on the waitlist for, that seat is reserved for the first person in line on the waitlist. That person is the only one who can register for that open seat because it is linked to their T number, like a class permit.

Waitlist are set-up at the section level: if waitlist is requested for HIST 2010, it does NOT have to be activated on every section of that course. For example, Honors sections can be exempt.

The current capacity for the waitlist has been set at 100 students.

Yes – the waitlist is visible in Eagle Online right next to the section’s capacity.

Students are placed on the waitlist on a first-come, first served basis. This is not controlled by the academic departments and is fully automated.

No – the waitlist does not currently have that capability. It is set-up as first-come, first-serve.

The system automatically will update students’ waitlist positions based on the registration activity that has occurred that day.

Once a waitlist notification email is sent, students have exactly 24 hours to claim the open spot before they are dropped from the waitlist and the seat is offered to the next student on the list.

Yes. Our recommendation is to set the available seat count for the section at 3-4 seats lower than the maximum allowed in the room. During early registration, all students, even seniors, are still directed to use the waitlist. After the end of early registration after students are purged for non-payment, if a senior still has been unable to get a course the department chair can use her discretion to distribute permits for those 3-4 reserved seats. Permits would still be entered into Banner the same way.

Yes – students are instantly notified what position they are on the waitlist when they sign up. They also have the ability to check their status 24/7 via Eagle Online on their Student Schedule after signing up.

No – the only way students can be added to a waitlist is to enter that course’s CRN number into the Add Classes Worksheet in Eagle Online. If that section is closed and the waitlist is available, they will immediately be prompted. If the student searches for a course using Look Up Classes, closed sections will still have “C” listed, even if they have the waitlist as an option.

Yes – students can sign up to be waitlisted on multiple sections of the same course. However if they are enrolled in a course’s section and attempt to register for different section of the same course after being prompted by the waitlist, they will not be able to do so without first dropping the section they are currently enrolled in.

The student will remain on the waitlist until they manually remove themselves from the waitlist OR they are purged from the waitlist because they don’t register for the section when prompted by the waitlist. Removing your name from the waitlist is the exact same process as dropping a class using the Add Classes Worksheet in Eagle Online.

No – for linked courses both the lecture and lab must be closed to get onto the waitlist. At that time, the student will be prompted to get on the waitlist for both the lecture and lab.