Registration for orientation for the summer months was slightly delayed on Monday, according to USC’s Office of New Student Orientation that tweeted that their system was down.
The system allows enrolling Gamecocks to schedule their registration for summer orientation. The Office of New Student Orientation planned for the system to be up and running on April 6, although they didn’t specify a time. Bethany Naser, the Director of New Student Orientation, said.
At 10:14 a.m., the Office of New Student Orientation tweeted the system was down and they were working to get it fixed as soon as possible.
“We put up there because people stress out when it’s not open in the morning,” Naser said.
The names of all the students eligible to register for orientation still needed to be imported by University Technological Services and Naser said by the early morning they had only done the summer school students.
“People always panic,” Naser said. “Families will get nervous for a million different reasons, they know it’s opening that day.”
The office had to make “a lot of phone calls” to those anxious families who were distraught when the system seemed nonresponsive. She assured the class of 2019 and their families that they were at no disadvantage for getting the orientation date they wanted because the system wasn’t working for anyone.
“They get excited,” she said. “They just want to make sure because they’ve made travel plans.”
By 10:30 a.m., all of the students had been imported and the system was ready for business. The Office of New Student Orientation decided to open the registration system at 1 p.m. after which they had a large flux of students registering.
As of the end of the day on Monday, 600 future Gamecocks had already registered for orientation and Tuesday produced another 400 to add to the pool, Naser said.