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About Course Wait Lists

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I’m on the Wait List for a course! What do I do now?

Learn all about the Wait List on LionPATH on the Registrar’s help page.

When a course is filled to capacity, students are given the option to add themselves to the wait list for the course.

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In the LDT Online Programs, we gauge student interest in courses according to the registration on LionPATH. If you need a course and it is currently full then you must add yourself to the Wait List on LionPATH for the course. To be clear: emails, phone calls, hallway conversations, blog comments, car magnets, movie theater whispers, etc. are not used to track and tally student need for courses. If you want to take a course, you should be on the Wait List for the course.

Students must add and remove themselves from a course Wait List via LionPATH. [Read more…]

Admissions Timetable – From Certificate to Degree

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The LDT Online Programs has an established admissions timetable, which includes specific deadlines for the receipt of complete applications for degree and certificate programs.

Applications for admission must be complete by the deadlines listed below in order to be reviewed for admission:

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  • APRIL 1 – Complete Application Deadline for Summer Start
  • JUNE 15 – Complete Application Deadline for Fall Start
  • NOVEMBER 1 – Complete Application Deadline for Spring Start

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Understanding the First Week of Class

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The start of each new term, Summer, Fall, and Spring, amplifies the differing needs of the individual members of the LDT Online Programs’ community. Let’s take a global view of all that is happening in the first week of any term so that the programmatic purpose of the methods and schedules of the first week seem a bit more human and coordinated.

Settling-In

First, we have new students beginning their online education with us at the start of every term.

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Our new students are not only adjusting to the course, they are still settling-in with all of the administrative details of Penn State, World Campus, The Graduate School, and the LDT Program. Accessing an online course with us requires numerous steps to occur in sequence across multiple offices or administrations—Program, Department, Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, Bursar, World Campus, and Canvas CMS, to name the major players. At each step of the way, some humans need to do some steps, [Read more…]

HelpDesk Now Offers 24-hour Support

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The World Campus HelpDesk now provides 24-hour support for World Campus students and faculty. The announcement read in part:

Demand for after-hours support, student feedback, and benchmarking with our top competitors indicates a need for 24×7 technical support for World Campus students. We are excited to announce that the World Campus HelpDesk (WCHD), in collaboration with the Enterprise IT Service Desk (EIT) will expand technical support hours of operation for World Campus (WC) students to 24×7 via the Shared Service Environment (SSE). This will begin Monday, August 7 as 12:01 am.

Students will continue to receive the high quality of service they are used to, now with round-the-clock support.

Please spread the word so that your students may benefit from this new service.

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