The document discusses concerns with the current course registration system at NTU and proposes improvements. Specifically, it notes that core modules should be assigned to guarantee students can take them. It also suggests ranking module preferences so the university can better balance demand. The proposed system would assign core modules upfront and use the registration period for other courses, with an appeal/add drop period to make adjustments. The goal is to minimize situations where students end up with too few modules in a semester due to high competition for popular courses.

1. To review course registration system in NTU Brainstorming

6. Current course registration system You got it? Good for you! Didn’t get it? You can always appeal. Appeal fail. Try again next semester. I barely got into my core module. I only have 2 registered modules. Lucky! I only got 1! Shut up! I got NOTHING! Well, there is still the add drop period. You will get it one day .

7. Current course registration system Fastest fingers first Tell me again why we need to fight for our core modules? Er… Because you have to. Otherwise, you can’t graduate. 2 hours of clicking non-stop, is this some kind of a game? Juniors? Sorry man, you’ll be a Senior one day.

8. Main concern Core modules should be assigned. Everyone should be guaranteed a place in their core modules.

9. Since core modules are offered to us by our academic levels, they might as well assign us core modules classes. From the time they assign us our classes to the Add Drop period, we can find people who want to swap classes and do it during the Add Drop period.

10. Course registration period will be for us to register our UEs, GER-PEs and MPEs. Then.. We fight, still.

11. See what they have done recently? They got us to let them know 3 MPEs that we cannot get. They should have done this long ago. Let us rank our choices before they decide to offer how many vacancies for each module.

12. The good part about ranking? It is a gauge for them to know how many classes to offer per module. To minimize Demand > Supply They offer more classes for more popular modules.

13. The bad part? To go through our rankings… Let’s just say we will increase their workload.

14. Other concerns

19. This may not be perfect. Sure, there are more steps in this system, more work for the admin staff (they are paid to do it), and it may seem more complicated. But this system can minimize the “fightings” between academic levels and the situation where people can end up with less than 4 modules for the semester.

21. Well, every man for himself. But these are the problems we see in this system and we believe we can have something in place that can help our juniors. If you are willing to help, feel free to voice out as we need all your inputs to make this happen. (: Thank you.