eServices Tutorial: Course search
In eServices, students set search criteria to search for online, campus and continuing education courses. The Wish List (aka Review My Plan) in eServices can be used as a planning tool.
hi everybody this is Tess your friendly
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Minnesota online advisor I'm here today
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to show you how easy it is to search and
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register for online courses and e
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services after logging into your student
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eServices account you will find yourself
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at my dashboard to begin your course
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search click on courses and registration
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found in the menu on the left-hand side
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of the page and then under courses and
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registration click on search for a
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course you are now at the course search
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page you will see that there are
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required fields marked in red these are
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fields that you must fill - in order to
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perform a course search let's take a
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look at the first required field college
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/ University here you can search for
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courses that are offered through a
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particular mnscu you college or you can
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perform a system wide search meaning a
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search for courses offered throughout
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the entire mnscu you system of 37
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colleges and universities for purposes
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of this tutorial however let's say that
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you are a Northwest Technical College
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student pursuing your online medical
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administrative secretary AAS degree
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after meeting with your program advisor
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you have determined that you need to
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complete the keyboarding one class this
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summer in order to stay on track for
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your anticipated graduation date further
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you need to take this course online so
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first you are going to choose and TC
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Northwest Technical College as the
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college through which you wish to take
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your course next to choose the semester
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or term in which you wish to take your
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course in this case summer 2013 if you
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hit the search button now after filling
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in only the required fields you will
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receive a list of every course offered
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through NTC this summer both online and
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on-campus in every subject area in order
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to narrow your search results you will
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need to enter more detailed search
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criteria let's go back to the course
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search page and expand the advanced
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search option under delivery method
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click on online web only in the keyword
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search box you're going to enter a word
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that would accurately
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describe the subject matter of the
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course you wish to take in this
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particular instance keyboarding now hit
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the search button you are now on the
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search results in plan page showing that
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keyboarding one is offered online at NTC
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this summer in order to register for
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this course click on the Add button
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represented by a plus sign in the first
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column click OK in the dialog box that
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appears informing you that the course
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has been added to your wish list next
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click on review my plan found in the
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menu on the left-hand side of the page
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if you are sure that this is the class
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that you want check on the box in the
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first column to continue the
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registration process click on the blue
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select course to proceed to register box
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you are now on the registration page
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enter your eServices password and click
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on register
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congratulations your course registration
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is successful please remember that if
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you have any difficulty in the course
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search or registration process please go
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to ww NC edu and click on help this is
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where you will find all of the friendly
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Minnesota online advisors ready to
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assist you best wishes to you and your
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academic pursuits see you next time bye
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bye
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