The university is switching over to some new registration and advising software called Banner. Students started registering for classes yesterday, and through the next 2 weeks. Needless to say, the new software is HORRIBLE. For instance, it won't let me access all my advisees' academic records, nor let me clear them all to register. Students are having a hard time to navigate it and add classes. As I was trying to figure out the new system this afternoon, I discovered something quite, um, shocking. Banner thinks that I'm not teaching any classes in the fall:
Maybe I do like Banner after all. If only it were binding.
They've got me down for 3 logic sections. I need a sabbatical--maybe I can hack in and fix that.
Yes Banner is indeed buggy and even apart from that hard to deal with. It's inefficient and the displays make it difficult and time-consuming to get information. It's the business model: instead of providing a tool to make navigating more efficient, it displays pages in a format geared to advertising and browsing. And it's not customizable by end-users.
Every time I log in it also informs me that I am also not currently teaching classes. Since I trust the University's IT department, I use this as a reason not to go to class.