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On the first day of classes, your mailbox in LA-10 or at your site may contain various attendance sheets; these sheets are for instructor use only and do not need to be submitted at any point during or after the semester. It is likely that any paper attendance list in your mailbox is already inaccurate.

Instructors should check ChaffeyVIEW for the "up to the minute" roster and wait list.

If a wait list appears on ChaffeyVIEW or is among the papers, this means your section was "closed"--at at least one point, it was full, so registration in the class was halted.  However, you may notice that your roster has fewer than the maximum number of students (see the table below) in it because of "deregistration"--the removal of students who did not pay their fees in time-- or because the class was never full.

If your class does not have a wait list and does have a spot or two open (see the table below), do not add students who are present and petitioning for admission. Tell them that they must immediately go to Admissions or get online and add the class on a first come, first served basis. If you do not follow this procedure, you and the Admissions office will be adding students at the same time; this may result in unexpected over-enrollment.

Only after the first week are add codes required for open classes.  Once a class is full (closed) a wait list will begin on ChaffeyVIEW.

In the second week, if there are more students who wish to add than there are seats, you may choose to hold a simple lottery--"draw straws"--to determine who gets the available seats.

Be aware that enrolling more than the maximum number of students as indicated in the table below (room capacity limitations notwithstanding) creates a number of difficulties: the bookstore has ordered only so many books; the room itself has a maximum capacity which it is legal limit, you may swamp yourself with work, and you are not paid extra money for extra enrollment.  Further the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) endorses a maximum limit of twenty students in composition classes.

On the first day, please wait at least fifteen minutes before you take roll and/or add students to the class; indeed, you may wish to allow thirty minutes if you teach an early morning or late evening section.  This small courtesy will eliminate complaints about rigidity and insensitivity to the students' realities.  Students are notified that tardiness for or absence from the first class may jeopardize their enrollment in the course.

After fifteen to thirty minutes, take roll, calling students who are on the roster first.  As you do this, you should mark down the students who "did not enter" as "DNE."  As soon as possible after class, instructors should log in to ChaffeyVIEW and drop the students (mark them DNE); note that a delay in your marking students DNE may result in their loss of registration fees. 

Next, if a student has proof that s/he was "deregistered," you may wish to ask to see that proof.  Please be aware that students have learned to say they were deregistered--you will have no record at all of students who were deregistered, so you may (and should) treat all unsupported claims about being deregistered with sympathetic suspicion.

Finally, to add students, you should go down the waiting list in the order it appears on ChaffeyVIEW to avoid problems.  Be aware that enrolling more than the maximum number of students as indicated in the table below (room capacity limitations notwithstanding) creates a number of difficulties: the bookstore has ordered only so many books; the room itself has a maximum capacity which it is legal limit, you may swamp yourself with work, and you are not paid extra money for extra enrollment.  Further the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) endorses a maximum limit of twenty students in composition classes.
 

Class	Suggested Maximum Enrollment
Engl 500 & 550	32
Engl 450	32
Engl 1A, ENGL 7 & Jour 10/11	30
Engl 1B	27
Engl 1C, literature, & genre classes	35

Students you add to a closed class must be given an add code following the A&R procedures. Once you assign an add code, the student may go to the Admissions office to register for the class or may add the class through ChaffeyVIEW; please note that students must pay for classes they add immediately.