FAQ for Course Selection on CUSIS

The information is available under CUSIS by navigating: Manage Classes > Enrollment Dates

You may click “Manage Classes” and "View My Classes" to check course put on waitlist and its waitlist position

“Swap” allows students to drop a registered course and enroll in a new course which has vacancy simultaneously. Students therefore cannot swap a course on the waitlist.

Yes, the units of the courses on waitlist will not be counted into the maximum course load of the students. However, CUSIS will check students’ maximum course load before enrolling them into the class from waitlist, e.g. a student has already registered 16 units, system will not enroll him/her from the waitlist of a 3-unit course as the course load of the student will exceed the maximum (18 units), even if the course has quota available and the student is in position 1 of the waitlist.

CUSIS will automatically enroll students from the waitlist according to their waitlist position in scheduled interval, e.g. every 30 minutes. Therefore students on the waitlist will not be enrolled immediately even a student has dropped the class.

The most common reason is due to reserved quota for specified students. System will reject course enrolment if there is no available quota, but the quota partition information is not displayed in “message” under CUSIS.Information on quota partition can be found from “Teaching Timetable by Subject / Department”.

Other reasons include reaching your maximum course load, the number of courses allowed to register in one term (e.g. a maximum of 2 classes of University General Education Courses, 1 class of elective Physical Education Course). Please note that class in the waiting list is also counted towards the total number of classes allowed to be taken. You need to drop from the waiting list if you need to take other course with vacancy.

Please refer to question 6

As specified by the Office of University General Education, student can only enroll in a maximum of 2 UGE courses in 1st / 2nd term. If you have already registered 2 UGE courses in 1st term, you cannot register any UGE course in the same term.

For the summer session, students will be allowed to enroll in one University GE course during the course enrolment period and to enroll in the second University GE course during the add/drop period subject to availability of class quota. If students have already registered one UGE course during the course enrolment period, system will NOT allow any course registration of UGE courses under CUSIS until the add/drop period begins.

Please note that class in the waiting list will count into the number of UGE courses registered. You must check your course registration record/history and drop from the waiting list if you need to take other class with vacancy.

Please check the announcement “Course Selection Information for Physical Education Courses” of Physical Education Unit. Students can only take 1 required P.E. course in a term, but can enroll the elective PE course (last alphabet of the course code is X) if they are interested to take more.

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Course offering departments sometimes cancel classes after students perform validation prior to actual course registration. When students submit the course registration, the “Class not found” message will be displayed, yet the system does not allow student to drop since the class has been cancelled. Students do not need to take any action as there is no adverse effect on other classes in the shopping cart and students can still proceed to enroll other classes.

There are four restrictions on the number of classes to be submitted in each enrolment attempt:

a. One student can only submit 8 classes in each enrolment attempt
b. One student can only submit 2 class sections of same course in each enrolment attempt
c. One student can only submit 2 University GE classes in each enrolment attempt (For the summer session, one student can, in each enrolment attempt, submit 1 University GE class during the course registration period and 2 University GE classes during the course add/drop period)
d. One student can only submit 1 PHED class in each enrolment attempt

If classes put in the shopping cart are in excess of the above limits, system will show warning messages when students submit the enrollment. Click here for details.

Students who have already reached the maximum course load of the academic year are not eligible to enroll summer courses, so their “Term Enrolment Limits” under CUSIS is blank.

In accordance with clause 5.3 of the General Regulations Governing Full-time Undergraduate Studies for Students admitted to the 4-year curriculum in 2012-13 and thereafter, which stipulates: “under special circumstances a student may be allowed to take fewer than 9 units or more than 18 units in a term, or more than 39 units in an academic year if recommended by his/her Major Programme and approved by the Registrar.” If students want to enroll summer courses, they can apply for exceeding the maximum course load by submitting the "Online Application for Exceeding Year Course Load of 39 units (for Summer Session Only)" on or before the specified deadline.

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