Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

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Student Responsibility

While academic advisors, faculty and staff are available to assist and advise, it is ultimately the student's responsibility to keep his/her personal and academic information up to date at all times and to follow all University, SGS, departmental and program regulations, requirements and deadlines. The Student Web Service (SWS) www.rosi.utoronto.ca makes it easier for students to check and correct this information. If questions arise about requirements, policies and procedures, students are responsible for seeking answers for these questions from staff and advisors.

Note: the Faculty of Nursing and other university offices may send important information to you by email. Please make sure that your email address, your mailing/permanent address and telephone number are up to date at all times. Under University policy students are required to maintain a University based email account (e.g., UTOR, ECF, CHASS, OISE), record it in ROSI and regularly check for messages. That account may be forwarded to another personal account but it is the University account to which the University will send official correspondence.

Declaration

Use of the SWS to enrol in courses means that you agree to abide by all of the academic and non-academic rules and regulations of the University, the School of Graduate Studies and department in which you are registered and assume the obligation to pay academic and incidental fees according to the policies and requirements of the University of Toronto. You normally use the SWS to add or cancel courses. If, for extraordinary reasons, you are unable to use the SWS contact your department office as soon as possible.

Users of the Student Web Service are expected to be responsible when using the SWS and should not attempt to flood the system with requests, or to automate the process of course enrolment. Such activity may clog the system so that other students may be denied access or experience degraded performance. Any student(s) attempting such activity may be denied access to the SWS until after the relevant registration period.

Personal Identification Number

Each time a student accesses ROSI via the web a personal identification is required in addition to a student number. The first time the system is accessed this will be derived from the student's date of birth (format YYMMDD). However, at that point the student will be required to change the PIN. Subsequent access to the system will require this new number which should be known only to the student. The PIN and student number together constitute an "electronic signature". Never give your PIN or student number to someone else.

Forgotten PIN numbers can be reset by the graduate office. To avoid having to contact the office in person or having to wait for office hours, students can enter answers to a set of questions on the SWS. When they first access the ROSI, the SWS will prompt students to choose three questions from a list. If at a later date the student forgets the PIN, the PIN can be reset online if two of the three questions are answered correctly.

Updating Personal Information

Students may view or update their address, telephone number or email address through the Student Web Service. When entering new information, the "add" option should be used. "Change" should only be used to correct information in an otherwise correct record (e.g. typos).

Enrolment (Request Enrolment) in Courses

Students may begin enrolling in or requesting courses on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 when ROSI opens at 6:00 a.m. The web service requires full information about a course when a request is being made. Be sure to enter your:

Activity code: e.g. NUR1022H
Section Code: usually F, S or Y. This indicates whether the course is offered in the fall session (F), the winter session or second term (S) or over both (Y).

The next screen will show you the section(s) that is available. You can then select the section that you wish provided that there is space.

Teaching Method: all graduate courses have a teaching method of LEC (lecture).

Teaching Section: the number of the class. Most graduate courses only have one teaching session (0101). Although there may be only one teaching section the information must still be entered on the system.

Example:

NB. Some courses may require instructor's approval in addition to that given by the co-ordinator/academic advisor .

When you want to enrol in courses, you must first login to ROSI (www.rosi.utoronto.ca). If this is your first time logging in to ROSI, your PIN will be your birthdate in the following format YYMMDD. So if you were born on December 11, 1971, your initial PIN would be: 711211.

After you login, ROSI will prompt you to update your PIN.

Now click on the "Course Enrolment" button on the left-hand side of the screen. It will bring you to another webpage that should show the sessions from which you may be able to enrol.

Make sure that you are selecting to enrol in courses for the 2007-2008 Fall/Winter academic session. Then click on "Manage Courses". Then type in the course number (academic activity code) and section "F" for first term course, "S" for second term or Winter course and "Y" for a full year course as found on the timetable. The next screen will show you the section(s) that is available. You can then select the section that you wish providing that there is space.

ROSI will let you know if you were successful in adding/enrolling in the course. To double check that you are actually enrolled, you should click on the "List Courses" button at the top of the page.

Courses from Outside the Department

Not all graduate departments allow students to enrol in courses via the web. Before attempting to add a course outside your department check with your department and the host department about procedures.

Checking Course Status

Students are responsible for knowing the status of their course requests at all times. This information can be obtained via the web service.

The following are the possible statuses:

REQ: Course requested. Must be resolved/approved by the last date to add a course.

INT: Course requested pending instructor approval in addition to co-ordinator's/advisor's approval.

APP: Request approved. Student is enrolled in course.

REF: Request denied. Student is not enrolled and may not make another request for this course via the web during this session.

CAN: Course cancelled (student withdrew from course before deadline)

WAIT: No room in the meeting section. Student has been placed on a waiting list based on category and will be enrolled automatically if space comes available.

DWAIT: Student has cancelled place on the waiting list or been removed.

Cancelling or Withdrawing from Courses

Students may cancel or withdraw from individual courses using the web service up to certain deadline dates. Before doing this however, students are advised to consult with their advisor or departmental office.

System Availability

On the first day of course enrolment , ROSI will open at 6:00 a.m. Other than those days, here are the normally available hours for the Student Web Service:

Monday 6:00 to 23:45
Tuesday to Thursday 0:15 to 23:45
Friday 0:15 to 18:00
Saturday midnight to midnight
Sunday midnight to 23:45

Occasionally, hours must be reduced for system maintenance. Please check the Student Web Service for details.

URL

The Student Web Service (a.k.a. ROSI's Page) can be accessed at www.rosi.utoronto.ca. Instructions are located there. Please remember to log out after each use.