eBear L-Course Signup Instructions

Online L-Course Signup

Important Reminders:

You can add call numbers to eBear at any time, but you can do L signup only during your appointment times.

You must read ALL onscreen messages, and you must scroll down the screen.

This process is still being tested. Make sure you read all areas of the screen and let us know if you have a problem.

Please remember that L Course Signup ends at 9:45pm on Friday, April 18, although the program filing deadline is Monday, April 28. Do your best to get your L courses in by 4/18. Further changes will be possible in September.

Before you ask your adviser to approve your program be sure that:

all of your classes appear in the familiar List of Courses at the top of your eBear screen

there is no class you are NOT taking in the List of Courses

there are no classes waiting for action in the new L Course Signup area

The Basics

You will see two areas of the screen:

The usual area, with courses (List of Courses), spaces to add and drop (Modify Course List), and the Comments and Reminders box.

An area for L course signup (L Course Signup).

The L Course Signup area includes your appointment times.

You can enter call numbers at any time but you can do the L procedure (add or drop an L course only during your appointment times.

After you enter an L call number in an ADD box inthe Modify Course List area and click [Submit], you will receive, in the Comments and Reminders box, a prompt to scroll down. The call number will already be in the L Course Signup area. During an appointment time, click on [Add].

If you do secure a place in an L course, the course will appear in the List of Courses, marked by a red L. You do not need to do anything more, except talk to your adviser and have your program approved by the deadline.

If you are unable to complete the L course procedure for a particular class (e.g., the class is full) the class will NOT appear in List of Courses. You may continue to try to secure a place until the end of your last appointment.

If you decide not to take an L course for which you have completed the L procedure, you must drop it by the same procedure you used to add it:

enter the call number in a DROP box in the Modify Course List area and click [Submit]

scroll down to the L Course Signup area

click on [Drop] during your appointment time

the class will NOT disappear from your List of Courses until you complete the drop in the L Course Signup area

Some Special Cases

CHANGING YOUR MIND

If you add an L course to eBear and, before you have done the L procedure, decide not to take that class, scroll down to the L Course Signup area, and click on [Cancel Add]. (You will see the [Cancel Add] button only during appointment times.) UPDATE: As of 4/16/08 you can use the [Cancel Add] button at any time.

If you have done the L course procedure for a class, and then you drop it from eBear (without having dropped it from the L-course database), you may still keep your place in the class and restore the class to eBear. Scroll down to the L Course Signup area, and click on [Cancel Drop]. (You will see the [Cancel Drop] button only during appointment times.) UPDATE: As of 4/16/08 you can use the [Cancel Drop] button at any time.

THE SHOP BUTTON

The best way for you to secure a space in an L course is to follow the instructions above. You may, however, want to know which sections of a multi-sectioned class (e.g., Elementary Spanish II, Calculus I, Principles of Economics) have space available.

Within the L Course Signup area you will see Check course section availability (Shop).

Enter the call number of an L course and click on [Shop].

You will see a list of all available sections of that course.

Follow the procedures described above to add the section of your choice.

Please note that you will NOT see sections that have a time conflict with other courses on your program, even if space is available.

(You will see the [Shop] button only during appointment times.)

CHANGING SECTIONS

The L-course database will not allow you to add two sections of the same course. If you have secured a space in, for example, ECONW 1105 section 01 and want to change to ECONW 1105 section 02:

use SHOP (above) to make sure that there is space in ECONW 1105 02

enter the call number of section 01 in DROP and the call number of section 02 in ADD (within the Modify Course List area)

click [Submit] to make the change on eBear

scroll down to the L Course Signup area and click [Replace] to make the change in the L-course database

Replace will be available only for two sections of the same class. It will not be available for other add/drop combinations.

UNEXPECTED TIME CONFLICTS

As you know, eBear will not allow you to enter two courses that meet at the same time.

Very rarely, there may be a discrepancy between what courses appear in eBear and what courses are in the L-course database.

If you are trying to do the L procedure and the L-course database thinks there is a time conflict, you may be offered a button allowing you to remove the (mysterious) conflicting class from the L-course database.

Once you have cleared up the time conflict in the L-course database, try the ADD again.

If you are unable to resolve the time conflict (or, indeed, for any problem you are unable to resolve), please be in touch with the Registrar’s Office so we can help you

TROUBLESHOOTING

Before talking to the Registrar's Office, be sure to scroll down the screen and read all messages
We can better help you if you give us the exact messages you received in the Comments and Reminders box and in the L Course Signup area.

NEED OUR HELP?

107 Milbank

212-854-2011

registrar@barnard.edu