Archive: April 2008

Fall 2008 Schedules are Here!

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Well, they’re a few weeks late, but lo and behold, the Fall 2008 schedules are now available on BUSIPlus! We’ve ironed out every bug we could find, but we can’t be absolutely sure, so please make sure you let us know if you find anything that doesn’t work.

Please bear in mind the following issues that we are working to resolve:

  • Enrollment updates may be slower than usual. This is because Banner’s query system is much slower than the old BUSI pages. We’re working on a good way to update our database without having the script timeout.
  • Grade options are not available. For some reason, this information is currently unavailable from Banner’s public view. We will be in contact with the Computer Center to see what our options are. Is this something you guys even used?
  • CRN numbers don’t show up anywhere. We will be adding these in slowly to help you register. For the time being, please use the section numbers to find the courses you’d like to sign up for.

Other than the notes above, we’re fairly confident that everything works just like it used to, so you can use the same familiar interface on BUSIPlus! We have also added in the Summer ’08 schedule (think of it as a present from us to you). Our apologies that this wasn’t ready in time for early registrations, but we hope that BUSIPlus will continue to be useful to you in the upcoming semesters. If there’s something in Banner that we don’t have and you’d like to see, please let us know. We will do our best to add it into our database.

Fall ’07 Schedules Back Up

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For anyone who noticed, the Fall 2007 schedules had gone down for the last three days. Essentially, we forgot that the updater was still running, and when Binghamton deleted the old schedules, our updater went ahead and did the same. We just noticed this today. Fortunately, we had a backup (which exists exactly for this reason), and so we’ve been able to bring those back up, in case anyone should need them.

Tell us your opinion – do you like having the old schedules up? Do you need them? How far back do you think is reasonable?

Fall Schedules by Week’s End

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Sorry for the delays guys, but with Matt and I having work and grad school after graduation, it’s been tough to get things rolling with BUSIPlus. We will get things up by the end of the week (if not sooner). We just need time to make sure that the new changes don’t break our system, so we don’t want to rush them – last thing we want to do is to give you guys crap. I’m hoping to have time these next couple of days, so expect some good news soon.