Adding Classes

Before the semester begins, you may search for  and add a class to your schedule on myBoiseState, if there is space available in the class. The schedule of classes is also available to browse without logging in to myBoiseState. If a class is full, you may place yourself on a waitlist to enroll in the class if a seat becomes available. You may continue to add classes after the first day of classroom instruction up until the deadline appropriate to the session.

However, after the fifth day of the semester’s regular session you must obtain the instructor’s approval to add the class. This is done so with a permission number, and Instructors may refuse to grant a permission number if the class is full. They may also refuse permission if your late entry would prevent you from benefiting fully from the class or would prevent other students in the class from doing so. Enter the permission number on your Student Center when you register for the class. If you are registering for or adding an independent study, internship, or credit for prior learning, you may do so through the end of the sixth week of the semester.

You must register for a workshop prior to the first day of the workshop. For more information about the special deadlines associated with workshops, visit the Special Session Deadlines page.

To enroll in a workshop that is full and hasn’t started yet, you must submit a Registration Override Form, with the instructor’s signature, to the Registrar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 110, no later than the day before the workshop starts. Workshops do not have permission numbers.

During registration on myBoiseState, you may elect to take a course for audit instead of credit, if space is available in the class. Register by selecting audit status with the understanding that that you will receive neither credit nor a grade (A+ through F), regular course fees apply. On your transcript, audit status indicates that you had a seat in the class, but may or may not have participated in class activities. You may change your registration status from credit-to-audit or audit-to-credit until the appropriate session deadline (see the Academic Calendar). If you fail to meet the audit requirements established by the instructor, the instructor may give you a final grade of UAU (Unsatisfactory Audit). For more information, contact the Registrar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 110, (208) 426-4249.

You may enroll in up to 21 credits per term. If you want to take more than 21 credits in a term, you will need to work with your advisor to complete a Request to Exceed 21 Credit Hours form. Enrolling in more than 16 credits will result in an overload fee.

Enrollment swap is a feature that allows students to exchange two courses without requiring the procedure of dropping one course in order to add another.

When attempting to enroll in a full course, most of the time you will be given the option of putting yourself on the waitlist for the course. Your eligibility to be on the waitlist depends on whether you meet the requisites for the course. Please note that some courses do not provide a waitlist option. Once on a waitlist, if a seat becomes available, you will automatically be added to the course and notified via an e-mail sent to your BroncoMail account. If you are on multiple waitlists for different sections for the same course, you will be removed from the other waitlists at that time. The waitlist process runs five times daily throughout the registration process and is “closed” down on the last day a class can be added without an instructor’s permission number (see the Academic Calendar for date). If you are already enrolled in another section of the course that is waitlisted or have time conflicts with other courses, you will not be enrolled via the waitlist process.