The Banner registration system offers electronic waitlisting. Not all courses utilize waitlisting; academic departments determine which of their courses will have a waitlist and how they will utilize waitlisting. Please contact the academic department if you have questions about their waitlisted courses. If a waitlist is available for a closed class, the student will be offered the waitlist option during registration.
A regular process is run to look for open spots in waitlisted courses and send notifications to the next person on the waitlist. These spots become available when someone drops the course, or the department increases the quota. When this happens, the available seat(s) will show; however, if the course has students on a waitlist, the system will not allow anyone to enroll in the open seats. The seats are saved until the notification is sent to the next student on the waitlist. The process runs at 10:00 am Sunday through Friday, except for certain excluded dates during extended periods when University offices are closed. During times when the process is not run, students may see that there are vacant seats, but no one is able to enroll in the course until the process sends a notification to the next waitlisted student.
To view the timeline of when the processes will and will not be run, please visit https://www.wichita.edu/services/registrar/waitlisting.php.