Waitlists
Students waiting for seats in full courses
Waitlists inspects students on course waitlists by course, declared program, and student classification. It lives under Registration → Waitlists and can also be opened from Regstats waitlist links.
The tab is best for checking where demand is visible in Banner waitlist records. It should not be read as total unmet demand: students who wanted a course but never joined or remained on a waitlist are not visible here.
Filters
Set the filter stripe, then click Inspect Waitlists.
| Filter | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Campus / College / Department | Limits courses included in the inspection. |
| Level | Limits by course level. |
| Term | Accepts exact term codes or term-type values. |
| PoT | Limits by part of term. |
| Course | Limits to one or more subject-course values. |
You must select at least a course or a term before running the inspection.
Views
| View | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Course Overview | Unique waitlisted students per course. |
| By Program | Declared program codes for students waiting for each course. |
| By Classification | Academic classification of students waiting for each course. |
Course links can be used to re-run the Waitlists view for that specific course and term. Links from Regstats also restore the source row’s delivery campus, college, and part of term, retain its course title, and replace any older Department or Level selection with the source report’s scope. The Course Overview should therefore reproduce the linked count.
Methodology Notes
Class-list waitlist demand. Waitlists, Regstats, and the Department Dashboard count distinct WL students after removing anyone already registered in the same course-title, term, delivery-campus, college, and part-of-term scope.
Exclusions. Students with matching RE/RS/RR registered rows, duplicate waitlist rows within that group, and courses on the shared excluded-course list.
- Historical pulls can retain only students still waitlisted when the term closed, so a small past-term count is not evidence that earlier demand was small.
- Waiting is evidence of expressed interest, not proof that a new section will fill.
- Versions before 2.0.0 did not govern Regstats or the Department Dashboard, which used DESR section-snapshot waitlist counts.
Program and classification values come from student enrollment records. They are useful for context, but they may not fully explain why a student needs the course.
Related Analyses
- Regstats — high-waitlist and registration pressure signals
- Open Seats — courses with remaining capacity
- Enrollment — section-level enrollment and class-list detail