On March 10, 2021, Snevets launched Workday Student as the new student information system. After years of using the archaic Student/Faculty Web Services app on the intra-site, the administration just could no longer handle creating the semester course schedule on white boards in the Registrar office and manually uploading it to the system.
Students who work on campus are already familiar with Workday’s system as that is where they input their work hours and access their wages. This sense of familiarity brought hope to students who struggled with the old, slow system that had not been updated in decades.
Initially students saw promise in a new system, but they quickly realized there are more problems than solutions. While all students received a banner on Canvas with instructions on how to navigate Workday Student, many questions have been raised on how to access basic information like their schedule, course sections/registration, and request forms. Students are already overwhelmed with their course load, especially being online — the transition to Workday Student weeks before fall registration has increased stress and anxiety.
A sophomore, TreyVor Dominick outcries, “As if taking 20 credits online is not difficult enough, Snevets decides to release the new student system right before registration. I barely have enough time to eat lunch and now I have to spend hours trying to figure out how to find a course by application form on Workday and hope the professor receives the request. I’m locked out of courses due to my year and I can’t even see when they run. How will I know how to make my schedule?”
A universal concern among students is that the faculty and staff are more confused and technologically inept with Workday than they are themselves. Snevets now requires all forms to be filled out via Workday and will not accept any paper copies. Albeit this minimizes the headache of tracking down professors and walking a minimum of two miles to all the offices and departments required to fulfill your transfer request form, but it is impossible to know if the recipient of your requests will receive your request, let alone fulfill it.
Students who must get signed into courses because they are not a certain grade level or are taking a course for a minor fear they will not be able to register for their courses because the professors will not fulfill the requests in a timely manner. Rather than waiting in line for two hours outside the Office of the Registrar, you’ll be stuck in a Zoom waiting room to speak to a Registrar representative who will be distraught and equally befuddled as you.
Fall registration will put Workday to the test. Workday student is estimated to take 30 minutes to process each course code request which is at least one minute faster than the old system. Students will now be able to register for classes in under four hours, which is a record for Snevets. If you cannot register for classes on the day of your registration, a hold is automatically placed on your account and you will be fined full tuition regardless of whether you are in-person or not. Snevets has faced an all time low in revenue and must make it back to continue improving campus infrastructure.
You must hand deliver the fine to the Office of the Registrar by walking to the River Terrace Sweets gate and meeting a Registrar representative. Masks are required. If you do not live in the tri-state area, you may send your check via pigeon carrier, this is the safest method of delivery to minimize spread of the budlitevirus.
The implementation of Workday will enforce COVID-1870 protocols by strictly requiring all forms and requests to be filled online. Students can only access forms through Workday which means they cannot visit a professor’s office and demand a signature. The hidden goal of Workday is to achieve a zero-contact strictly virtual environment. By doing so, professors and offices will be able to ignore requests and fulfill them at their own pace.
It is unknown when the entire student body will return to campus, therefore Workday will make it easier to forget how to interact with other students, professors and administration. The goal is for students to never return, so Snevets can rent their newly built towers to Bohoken residents and make revenue.
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