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The two bugs in our database updater have finally been fixed.  You should find that all Fall 2009 courses are appearing on BUSIPlus with updated enrollments.  Please email us if this isn’t the case.  Summer ’09 courses are currently being updated and should be fixed shortly.

Despite our hopes of doing this before the first day of classes, these bugs kept us from emailing users with changes to their schedules.  Now that the errors are gone, we have started sending these immediately.  You should receive any updates within a few hours.  Hopefully they’ll be of some use to you guys.  That said, this is a good time to remind users that BUSIPlus cannot be relied on for real-time updates.  It may take us a day or two to detect a schedule change.  As a precaution, always verify your schedule against Banner to make sure you don’t miss a class!

Update: August 31st

One of the two bugs has been solved, but unfortunately the major bug still remains.  Unexpected events have prevented us from working on this as intended, though the second bug will be addressed Monday. Once the bug is fixed, we will email schedule updates. Please bear with us and accept our sincere apologies for the delay.

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Sorry for the inconvenience, but it appears that BU Brain has changed the underlying code for its schedule of classes somewhat, and that’s screwing up our database updater.  The following errors have been noted so far:

• Courses from the following departments are missing: COLI, ENG, LACS
• Gened information is missing
• Some partial semester classes may not have durations listed

Please keep in mind that schedules you have already saved in your account are unaffected.

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Well, it looks like Banner’s course descriptions are back up, so they now show up on BUSIPlus.  Hope that helps with setting up schedules.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

It seems that course descriptions are not loading on BUSIPlus.  This appears to be an issue with BU Brain, as they cannot be viewed on there either.  We are looking to resolve this as soon as possible.  Sorry for any inconvenience in the meantime.

Ever since BU made the push to Banner, we’ve found ourselves not really adding new features to BUSIPlus, but rather fixing all the features that broke.  One of these was the old Copy Schedule from BUSI feature, where you could log into BUSI, copy your schedule there, paste it into BUSIPlus, and have one of our schedules made for you instantly.  (For the curious, this was actually the very first tool built for BUSIPlus, all the way back in April 2005.)

We’ve finally fixed the backend of this to be compatible with the new BU Brain output.  We have tested this on a variety of inputs, and you can paste a bunch of things into the importer:

• Just type in the CRNs, separating them with either spaces or line returns
• Copy the Student Detail Schedule (either normal view or printer-friendly view)
• Copy the Week at a Glance text

Let us know what you think.  Oh, and don’t worry – we know we still have a bunch of places where CRNs need to be integrated (the schedule viewer being the most notable).  We’re working on getting this in place in the near future, so sit tight!  If you have other ideas for CRN integration, make sure to let us know.