How To Search For A Course
1) Sign in at www.byui.edu.
2) Click on “Registration” at the top right of the screen.
3) If you are directly accessing through the student.byui.edu click on the STUDENT tab.
4) Scroll down until you see the “Add/Drop Courses” and click on it. Make sure the “Term” is the correct semester you’re wanting to add classes for.
5) After you click on “Add/Drop Courses,” scroll down until you see “Course Search.” It should look like this:
6) Search by Course Code.
There are multiple ways to search for courses. The most effective way to search for specific courses is by only searching by the “Course Code.”
Please note the difference between Course Title and Course Code (e.g: "Career Exploration" is the course title and "GS100" is the course code)
7) Adjusting Search Criteria.
- You can change the class type to either online or day.
- You can also choose to search by general subject or course title.
- To see only courses with open seats you can click on "exclude waitlisted courses."
Please note that searching by too many criteria will show no results.
8) Click on "Search" and See the Results.
Course Search Terms
When looking for a course that you want to add to your schedule you might find a couple of terms that you are not familiar with. The most common question terms are the following:
1) Seats in a class:
The first number that appears is the number of seats available and the number to its right is the total number of students allowed in that section. These are some examples of different situations:
- 6/30 - means that there are six seats available
- -2/25 - the class is full and two extra students have been allowed to add the class
- 0/48 - the class is full and there are no available seats. You may be able to waitlist the class.
2) Staff Instructor:
A common question is when the instructor display shows "Staff" instead of the name of an instructor. This is because the department is still looking for an instructor for that specific section.
3) Status of a course:
There are different types of statuses that the course may have.
- Open: The course has available seats
- Closed: The course is full and there are no seats available and there is no waitlist.
- Reopened: The course was closed but more seats have become available.
- Waitlist Only: The course is full but you may waitlist the class.
How To Use Advanced Search
One of the tools you can also use to find courses you want to take is using "Advanced Search." Remember that this tool will also show no results if you search by too many criteria.
Here is a breakdown of each criteria in the Advanced Search Tool and how it can help you. We recommend using one or two of the advanced search tools at a time.
What To Do If There Are No Results?
Sometimes, when searching for a course, it will show you no results (see below).
Check a couple of things before determining that the course is not available for this semester.
1) Try searching only by "Course Code" again.
2) Find the correct course code by searching the course name in the Academic Catalog or use the new course code at the top to find the class. You can verify if you were using the wrong course code by scrolling to the bottom, it will display the old course code.
Search the course.
Find the new course code...
... and scroll to the bottom to verify the old course code.
Course Delivery Methods
F-1/J-1 International Students - Please note that only In-Person, Blended, and Professionally Mentored classes count as on-campus credits for maintaining your status.
Location: Off-campus
Student type: Online and Campus students
Location: On-campus
Student type: Campus students only
Location: Employment or mentoring location
Student type: Online and Campus students
Location: Off-campus
Student Type: Campus students only
Location: On-campus
Student type: Campus students only
Location: On-campus OR Off-campus
Student type: Campus students only