Now that you have chosen a target faculty or faculties, know which courses you are going to take, and thought about your workload, it's time to plan your timetable and register for courses.

It's now time to introduce you to the magic of the online Aurora Student system.

The next section of the Start@U1 tutorial will take you through the following functions in Aurora Student:

• how you login to Aurora Student and change your PIN;
• determining your initial registration time;
• searching for courses;
• building your timetable;
• registering for courses.

Click on the Aurora Student link on the U of M home page. This will take you to the Aurora Student home page.

Click on "Enter Secure Area" to bring up the Login Page displayed below. You will be asked to login with your student number and your PIN.

Enter your 7 digit student number, which is located on your Letter of Acceptance.

For first login, your 6 digit PIN has been automatically set as your birthday, and is to be entered in the order YEAR, MONTH, DAY (YYMMDD). So, if your birthday is April 24, 1991 you would enter 910424. Once you have successfully logged into Aurora you should change your PIN to something else other than your birthday for security reasons.

When you have entered your information click on Login. The first time you login you will be taken to the Aurora Login Verification page.

Aurora Login Verification will ask you to create a security question and answer. This is done in case you forget your PIN, (remember you are going to be creating a new PIN, other than your birthday). If you do forget your PIN, you will be able to click on "FORGOT PIN" on the login page and get your security question. If you answer the security question correctly you will be able to reset your PIN, and gain access to your information. Only you should know the answer to your security question.

Sample questions include: What was my first pet's name? Where was my Dad born? Who was my Kindergarten teacher?

In this example the security question is "What high school did I go to" and the answer is "Winnitoba High School".

It is very important to keep both your PIN and your security question private. If other people know your student number and PIN number, or your security question, they will have access to your university records, including your address, what courses you are registered in, and your final grades among other things.

The first time you login to Aurora Student you will be asked to read over the "Terms of Usage." Make sure you read and understand the "Terms of Usage" before you press Continue.

Once you have agreed to the "Terms of Usage" you will see your personal Main Menu.

It will say Welcome, and your name. In our example we are using a fictitious student named Donna Martin.

The options on the personal Main Menu screen include "Personal Information", "Enrolment & Academic Records" and "Ask UManitoba".

For this tutorial we will be reviewing the information in the "Personal Information" and "Enrolment and Academic Records" menus. First, let’s look at the "Personal Information" menu.

A variety of functions are available in the "Personal Information" menu. The first time you enter Aurora Student, we strongly encourage you to come to this menu so you can select "Change your PIN". It is important to change your PIN from your birthdate. Choose a new 6 digit number that is unique and that no one can figure out.

Other options available to you on the "Personal Information menu" include the option to:

• Change your security question.
• View and update your mailing addresses and phone numbers – make sure the U of M has all of your up to date contact information. If you applied with one address but will be living at a different address during the school year, make sure to update that here.
• View and update your email addresses – check out which email we have on file for you.
• View and update your emergency contacts - if you’d like to have someone as a contact in case of emergency, that’s where you add it.

From here we will go back to the "Enrolment & Academic Records" menu on the Main Menu and show you how Donna will determine her initial registration time.

The "Enrolment & Academic Records" menu has a number of options. If you are a new Music student the option you will be most interested in now is "Registration". The other options will be of interest to you once you have completed some courses.

The "Registration" menu includes a number of options that you will be utilizing to complete the registration process.

Beginning July 6th, 2009 you can find out the exact date and time of when you can first access course registration. You can do this by clicking on Registration Time & Status. Initial registration for new students admitted for Fall 2009 begins the week of July 13th.

Once your Initial Registration Time has begun, you can use the registration system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

You should be choosing your courses and planning your timetable before your initial registration time. That way when it's your time to register you are all ready to go!

You should be choosing, timetabling and registering for both your Fall AND Winter term courses during your initial registration time.

Before her initial registration time started, Donna finished planning her timetable. She kept track of all of her course numbers and their CRNs on her Timetable Planning Form.

After her initial registration time begins, she can login to Aurora Student, go to the Enrolment and Academic Records menu, then click on the Registration menu, and then Add or Drop Classes to begin registering.

Here is the Add or Drop Classes page. Donna has typed in the CRN for ECON 1200 (11090) in the Add Classes Worksheet. She must now click on Submit Changes and Aurora Student will attempt to register her in that course.

Although it appears that you can type in multiple CRNs on this Add Classes Worksheet, you can only enter one course CRN and its lab CRN, (if applicable). You cannot add more than one course CRN at a time. It is possible that the following error message will come up if attempted: "Faculty Advisor is reviewing your file".

When adding courses using the Add Classes Worksheet, make sure that you have selected the correct term before adding courses - if you are adding a course in the wrong term, you may also receive this message: "Faculty Advisor is reviewing your file". You can confirm what term you're in by looking in the top righthand corner of the Aurora page.

The other way to add a course:

When it is your Initial Registration Time you can do a course search again to find your courses. There will be an empty checkbox next to each search result. You may then check the box of the section you want to add, then click on REGISTER at the bottom of the page. Make sure if you're adding a course that requires a lab that you check off both your desired lecture section AND lab section before clicking on REGISTER.

As Donna successfully registers for courses, her current schedule will appear. This screen shows that she has now successfully registered in 2 courses.

However, Donna has also received an error. She was not able to register for ABIZ 4500 (Agribusiness Strategies) because of a "College Restriction". This course is only for students who are in the Agricultural and Food Sciences faculty - she's not there yet! It's also a 4th year course.

Common Registration Errors
There are many reasons why you may not be able to register for a course. Here is a list of some common registration errors you may come across:

- link error
- pre-requisite & test score error
- timetable conflict
- campus restriction
- college restriction
- closed section
- major restriction
- time conflict
- term span error

If you want to drop any of these courses, Click on Add or Drop classes under the Registration menu. By clicking on the drop down menu under ACTION, you will see an option to Web Drop (during the revision period) and Voluntary Withdrawal Web (after the revision period). Please take note of the Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadlines for both Fall and Winter terms. (Important dates can be found on page 3 of the Start Book.) Click on "Submit" to see a confirmation that you have successfully removed the course from your record.

Once Donna is happy with her schedule, she can get an idea of what her week looks like by clicking on “Week at a Glance” back on the Registration Menu screen. Other things to look at on the Registration Menu screen are: course detail schedule and fee assessment.

Having your fees assessed by Aurora will officially complete your registration. Here is an example of the fee assessment screen.

Please notice the UMSU Health and Dental fees. All U of M students are automatically enrolled in Health & Dental care plan. If you currently have coverage under other plans (a parent’s or a spouse’s), you can opt out of the UMSU Health & Dental plan and those fees will be reimbursed to you after you pay your tuition.

How do you pay your fees?

Now that you know how much you owe in tuition fees, how do you pay them? You can pay using several different methods:

Cash or Cheque

Interac/Debit

On-line banking with your bank

The only way you cannot pay for tuition is with credit card.

When do you have to pay your fees by?

Fall Term 2009 - fees due by September 9th, 2009 (4:30 pm)

Winter Term 2010 - fees are due by January 7th, 2010 (4:30 pm)

Please note that students will not receive an official fee statement in the mail. Make sure to pay your tuition fees by the fee deadlines listed above. It is important to pay on time to avoid late fees, holds to your student account or possible deregistration from courses.

Please see the Cashier's Office website for more information regarding fee payment.