The University of Oregon updated its registration portal on Duckweb on Oct. 30 ahead of Winter Term registration.
While the steps students take to register for classes remain the same, “where students click to register and make changes will be different,” according to a UO announcement.
The new registration portal includes five functions: prepare for registration, plan ahead, view registration information, register for classes and browse classes.
The previous version, Schedule Builder, allowed students to add potential classes to a “registration cart” and generate all the schedule options. The new registration portal allows students to create “plans” with their potential classes, but these are limited to
three.
Students can use these pre-built plans to register for their courses within their registration window, similar to the registration cart of the previous portal.
Students now access all registration related materials through the Registration Dashboard. There are three
ways to register for classes: registering using a pre-built plan, registering by searching for classes or registering with a CRN.
Due to the changes, UO has tutorials available for students on how to use the new interface on the Office of the Registrar website.
Sophomore Hila Badescu Knal who is studying Linguistics and English and minoring in comic studies, said the updates look “clunky and unusable,” and makes it difficult to plan for the upcoming term.
“I guess the thing that frustrated me the most about the update was that it didn’t really feel like an update at all,” Badescu Knal said. “It’s not like DuckWeb was perfect before, but it was really straightforward and did its job well.”
As a double major, Badescu Knal said the updates are overwhelming and difficult to work with, as it feels like “tools that were useful to me are just gone.”
The University of Oregon did not respond for comment in time for publication.
