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COURSE REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration Priority Dates
Web Registration Instructions
Final Grade Information
Financial Aid/Student Account Announcement

Registration Priority Dates

You are eligible to register by WEB beginning on or after the specified dates listed below. The WEB will operate each week from 7:00 AM Monday through Saturday at 11:00 PM. Students will be able to register on or after their priority registration dates as follow:

Check your classification and register at the appropriate time.

Graduates/Professional Tuesday, October 14 at 7 am
Seniors (89+ hrs.) Tuesday, October 21 at 7 am
Juniors (59 - 88 hrs.) Tuesday, October 28 at 7 am
Sophomores (29 - 58 hrs.) Wednesday, November 5 at 7 am
Freshmen (0 - 28 hrs.) Tuesday, November 11 at 7 am

Classifications include current Fall 2008 term hours.


Web Registration

Students! You have the option to register for courses via the WEB. Please see above for your registration priority date.

Instruction for Selecting your Course Reference Number (CRN) after meeting with your academic advisors:

1. Point your browser to http://www.arc.wvu.edu/courses/
2. Make sure the desired term (Spring, Summer, Fall) is selected in the first box labeled “Term”
3. Select the desired year using the pull-down menu (in most cases, it will default to the current year).
4. Select the desired Campus/Location using the pull-down menu (Check the box below that if you are searching for web-based/online courses only).
5. For Availability, select “Display courses with available seats only” or “Display all courses”
6. For Subjects for “term selected in #2 above”, use the pull-down menu to select the course subjects or leave it at "Any"
7. For Course #, use the pull-down menu to select your options or leave it at "Any" to display all courses and sections.
8. For Earliest Start Day, use this option only if you are looking specifically for courses that start later during the term.
9. For Latest End Date, use this option only if you are looking specifically for courses that end earlier than the end of the term.
10. For Earliest Start Time, use this option only if you are looking specifically for courses that start at a specific time.
11. For Latest End Time, use this option only if you are looking specifically for courses that end by a specific time.
12. For Course Length, use this option if you are looking for a course that is offered for a specific number of weeks (for example, you may be looking for a two week course during the summer)
13. For GEC Objectives, use this option to look for courses meeting specific objectives (for example, G01 for objective 1)
14. For Weekend Courses Only, use this option to look for courses offered during the weekend only.
15. For Writing Courses Only, use this option to look for courses that meeting the writing objectives.
16. For Exclude TBA Courses, use this option to exclude all courses with a "To be announced" meeting days and time from displaying.
17. Click “Search the Schedule of Courses” to display your course selections.

Registration Tips:

  • After you have built your schedule, please return to this site just before you logon to STAR at http://star.wvu.edu to register to make sure that your selected course sections are not closed. Doing so will expedite your course registration process.
  • Use option #10 above to help you find courses to fill open time slots on your schedule. For example, after filling in your required major courses and you are looking for an 11:00 a.m. time slot, this option will exclude all courses with a starting time earlier than 11:00 a.m.

Now you are ready to register for your courses using the Web self-service product.

Begin Registration on the Web

1. Point your browser to http://www.mix.wvu.edu/
2. You will see the "Mountaineer Information Xpress" with the MIX Login Screen
3.

Enter your Username and Password. If your MIX account is jdoe@mix.wvu.edu, then your Username is jdoe. If you were admitted to the University prior to July 11, 2004 your password is your 2-digit day of birth and the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number (unless you changed it). For example, if your date of birth is May 3, 1974 and your Social Security Number is 123-45-6789, then your password is 036789.

If you were admitted to the University after July 11, 2004 your password is your 2-digit day of birth and the last 4 digits of your WVU ID.

4. Click "OK"
5. On the next page, click the STAR tab on the top
6. Click the WVU STAR Information System link
7. Select the Student Services & Financial Aid link. You are now connected to STAR
8. Select Registration link
9. Click on Select Term link. Use the pull down option to select desired term. Click on Submit
10. Select Add or Drop Classes link
11. Enter Term PIN issued by advisor (undergraduates only). Click on Submit
12. Enter each CRN in the blocks and click on the Submit Changes button
13. You can review your schedule by selecting the Student Schedule or Student Detail Schedule
links
14. If you have selected courses that have variable credits or multiple grading modes, i.e., pass/fail,
audit you can make changes by choosing the Change Class Options links
15. Congratulations, you are now registered for classes
16. Remember, once you have completed Registration, close your browser to protect your privacy
17. If you are in STAR longer than 20 minutes MIX will time-out due to inactivity on the MIX pages

Click here for a tutorial (pdf format). Adobe reader required.

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Final Term Grades

Final term grades are available via the STAR WEB Systems after grade processing has been completed for a given term.

Final grades for the Fall 2008 term will be available on
Thursday, December 18, 2008.

Checking Grades via the WEB:

  1. Point your browser to http://www.mix.wvu.edu/
  2. You will see the "Mountaineer Xpress" window with the MIX Login Screen
  3. Enter your Username and Password. If your MIX account is jdoe@mix.wvu.edu, then your Username is jdoe. If you were admitted to the University prior to July 11, 2004 your password is your 2-digit day of birth and the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number (unless you changed it). For example, if your date of birth is May 3, 1974 and your Social Security Number is 123-45-6789, then your password is 036789. If you were admitted to the University after July 11, 2004 your password is your 2-digit day of birth and the last 4 digits of your WVU ID.
  4. Click "OK"
  5. On the next page, click the STAR tab on the top.
  6. Click the WVU STAR Information System link.
  7. Click on 'Student Services and Financial Aid'.
  8. Select 'Student Records' link.
  9. Select desired link to check grades.

Financial Aid/Student Account Announcement:

The Financial Aid Office and the Office of Student Accounts are pleased to announce that students can access both financial aid and student account information via the STAR Web System (http://www.mix.wvu.edu).

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