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Last Updated: 2025-01-10
Steps: Manage Course Section Waitlists

Steps: Manage Course Section Waitlists

  • Create course sections.
  • Security:
    Manage: Access to Registration
     domain in the Student Records functional area.
You can manage course section waitlists manually for greater control over student registrations. In addition to controlling which waitlisted students are added to the course section and when they can be added, you can also support students with special circumstances not addressed by the course waitlist policy. Example: You manually promote a senior student from your course section waitlist to ensure that they meet their remaining graduation requirements.
  1. Configure the course section definitions for which you want to manually manage waitlists.
    1. From the related actions menu of a course section definition, select
      Course Section Definition
      Edit
      .
    2. Select the
      Manually Manage Waitlist Promotion
       check box to prevent Workday from automatically promoting students from the waitlist to the selected course section.
  2. Manually manage students on a course section waitlist.
    From the related actions menu of any course section definition, select
    Course Section Definition
    View Waitlist
    .
    Security:
    Manage: Access to Registration
    .
  3. (Optional) Access the
    Register Student from Waitlist
     task.
    Add 1 student from a course section waitlist to the course section.
    Security:
    Manage: Registration Actions
    .
  4. (Optional) Access the
    Waitlist Student in Course
     task.
    Add 1 student to a course section waitlist.
    Security:
    Manage: Access to Registration
    .
  5. (Optional) Access the
    Remove Student from Waitlist
     task.
    Remove 1 student from a course section waitlist.
    Security:
    Manage: Access to Registration
    .