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Effective August 10, 2020, the Registrar’s Office will be open for business in Room 104, Tech Tower
August 7, 2020Published August 7, 2020
Effective August 10, 2020, the Registrar’s Office will be open for business in Room 104, Tech Tower.
In order to provide the best customer service to students, we are offering our services in a variety of virtual, online formats.
Drop-Off/Pick-Up Service
Drop-off or pick-up in-person service for documents that need Registrar’s Office processing or review may be conducted Monday-Friday in Room 104 Tech Tower between the hours of 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.
7 Tips for Effective Communication with Tech Support
March 31, 2020Whether you are student, faculty or staff, everyone has engaged in technical communications here at Georgia Tech. Since the recent COVID-19 outbreak forced all Yellow Jackets inside to distant learning and remote work environments, it is essential to adapt to more troubleshooting and conversations with Tech Support. The following are tips to help keep your conversations clear and concise.
1. Don’t contact Tech Support… yet
Registrar's Office conducting all business remotely
March 17, 2020NOTICE
March 17, 2020
Effective immediately the Office of the Registrar will conduct all business remotely. At the end of the week beginning today, we will reassess the situation based upon any further guidance that is offered by authorities. Please check our website periodically at registrar.gatech.edu for updates.
Questions and requests for assistance should be sent to us at:
comments@registrar.gatech.edu - General Questions, Readmission
Temporary Downtime for Student Information System, including BuzzPort, OSCAR, and DegreeWorks
March 12, 2020Scheduled Service Maintenance for Banner Production
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
All of Banner Production (i.e.: Banner 9 Administrative Pages, SSB, Job Submission) and ancillary system interfaces (Global ECS interface to Banner, TouchNet, GradesFirst, Canvas, TSquare, Grade Adapter, DegreeWorks, etc.) will be unavailable on Thursday, March 12th, between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM so that Financial Aid and Georgia Enhancement modules may be applied to the system.
Creating the next BuzzPort
January 9, 2020Following consultation with student leaders, faculty, and staff, the name “buzzport.gatech.edu” will be assigned to a new web application on Monday, February 3, 2020. The deprecated BuzzPort portal will become permanently unavailable at that time. Preview the redesigned BuzzPort. (link)
Background
Consider dropping a class? Read this first
January 6, 2020To drop or not to drop.
If you find yourself asking this age-old question during your first week of class, you are not alone. Plenty of students find themselves pondering this option during Phase II, aka the add/drop period. To avoid becoming a ramblin’ mess rather than a Ramblin’ Wreck during this time, we recommend asking the following questions before taking action towards either option.
Reasons to stay -Things to consider
Temporary Downtime for Student Information System, including BuzzPort and OSCAR
June 28, 2019WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Banner/Oscar Student Information Systems will be unavailable to facilitate financial year end close processing and to facilitate the migration to Workday integration with Banner.
Due to the critical nature of the Workday integration, Banner will be down after close out on Friday (June 28th) until Monday (July 1st) Morning. Therefore the service will be unavailable to users from Friday, June 28, at 6:00PM to Monday, July 1st at 8:00AM.
WHO IS AFFECTED BY THIS INTERRUPTION?
Temporary Downtime for Student Information System, including BuzzPort, OSCAR, and DegreeWorks
May 31, 2019What is happening?
All of Banner Production (i.e., INB, Banner 9 Administrative Pages, SSB, Job Submission) and ancillary systems (Global ECS interface to Banner, TouchNet, GradesFirst, Canvas, TSquare, Grade Adapter, etc.) will be unavailable from 5:00 PM on Friday, May 31, 2019 until approximately 9:00 AM on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 while the Student Information System and database are upgraded.
When is it happening?
The maintenance begin at 5:00 PM on Friday, May 31, 2019.
Temporary Downtime for Student Information System, including OSCAR, BuzzPort, and DegreeWorks
December 5, 2018What is happening?
All of Banner Production (i.e., INB, Banner 9 Administrative Pages, SSB, Job Submission) and ancillary systems (Global ECS interface to Banner, TouchNet, GradesFirst, Canvas, TSquare, Grade Adapter, etc.) will be unavailable on Thursday (Dec. 6th) from 7:00 PM to approximately 11:00 PM so that operating system patches may be installed on the database server.
When is it happening?
The maintenance willoccur between 7:00 PM and approximately 11:00 PM on Thursday, Dec. 6th.
Readmission Application Unavailable Due to Scheduled Maintenance
June 29, 2018WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Marketplace uPay Sites and uStores will be unavailable to facilitate financial year end close processing. Marketplace uPay Sites and uStores will be taken offline on Friday, June 29th, between 1:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Also, please do not manually fulfill orders during this downtime.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
Marketplace uPay Sites and uStores will be back online after 10:00 p.m. A notice will be sent to the recipients of this announcement once services are restored.
