The online registration program will be shut down over Thanksgiving Break to allow the Office of Information Technology staff time to fix system problems.

OIT staff will take the system down at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Stanton said the system will be accessible to students again on Nov. 27 at 7 a.m., in time for the scheduled junior registration period.

Until then, the Degree Navigator and registration system will be accessible, but no registration procedures may be completed.

Maintenance time will be spent investigating the long delays between course registration steps, Stanton said.

There is a slim possibility that the system will be back online near the end of Thanksgiving Break, but students should not expect it at this point, he said

Problems were expected because it is the first run of the system. In April, there will be fewer problems and the system will be faster, Stanton said.

“Anytime you put in a major system like we’re doing now, there are going to be problems. Experience will help,” he said.

Students who have already registered have mixed reactions about the process.

“I think the system sucks,” freshman Elizabeth Silvia said. “I skipped all of my classes ... to try and register. It took forever, and I didn’t even get the classes I wanted.”

Stanton acknowledged that people are not necessarily happy with the system right now. He said that in the future, people will realize how beneficial online registration is.

“Down the road, people will look back and say it’s amazing we stayed with the old paper system for as long as we did,” he said.