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What is the SPIRE Advising Notes tool?
The SPIRE Advising Notes tool is an online note-making application for academic advisors, available through SPIRE. The Committee on Advising & Technology and the Undergraduate Deans Council have endorsed the concept of online notes and reviewed the...
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The Advising Notes tool in SPIRE allows faculty and staff with Advisor access to maintain an
easy-to-use online record of advising notes for all students.
This tool will improve advising across campus by ensuring that advisors have accurate and more complete information on their advisees, even...
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Advisors, would you like a quiet environment and personal assistance to learn how to read and write SPIRE Advising Notes? Consider our Advising Notes Help Sessions or trainings. The Help Sessions are not formal workshops, but an opportunity for anyone with SPIRE for Advisors access to get one-on-...
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Undergraduate students: You can find advising information in the Advisor box on your Student Center in SPIRE.
Graduate students: With some exceptions in the School of Education, your advisor's information is not available through your Student Center in SPIRE. TIP: Use People Finder to find your...
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In SPIRE, go to the My Advisees page:
In the SPIRE Main Menu, click Advisee Information > View Advisees. The My Advisees page opens.
From the My Advisees page:
If your advisee is assigned to you, navigate to your advisee in the advisee roster, then click View...
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The Course Catalog includes course descriptions, listed by academic department. Because these represent the typical course offerings for a department, not all courses are described in the Catalog. If you cannot find a course description, contact the academic department for more information.
Not all...
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This page serves as a launching point for videos and text for the OWL-based CAPS online training. The training gives an overview of key areas of SPIRE access granted to those with the CAPS View and CAPS Manage security role. Note: only by completing the online OWL or in-person training will you...
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Use this page to add a new section to an existing course. Enter Information about an existing section to use in creating a new section
(you can copy an existing section if that section has been offered within the past 3 yrs.)
Click Search if needed
Enter additional information in the new...
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If a course has consent requirements (department/instructor consent), students will not be able to register themselves into the course. They must see the department or instructor first. When students are approved for registration, whoever in your department has been authorized and trained to...
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CAPS automatically assigns an associated class number for graded sections. For non-graded sections (labs & discussions), pick the graded section you want your section to be linked with. When students register for this class, they first pick a graded section, and then are presented with...
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A Catalog Requisite instructs SPIRE to automatically enforce a prerequisite for this course. It applies to all sections of the course. The system must find the requisite already met by the student or see that the student is currently enrolled to allow the student to register for a section of this...
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The Catalog page allows you to request changes for the title, long title and description of a course.
The Title appears on the Class Details page and on the Student Transcript and Academic Requirements report. (max 30 characters)
The Long Title appears on the Class Search Results page. (max 100...
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A Class Association Requisite tells SPIRE to enforce eligibility restrictions.
Class Association Requisites are visible to students in the schedule of classes, so please do not repeat them in Class Notes.
Examples: “Seniors & Juniors only”; “Cryptozoology majors only”
CAPS...
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Class Notes text is information for students. This information will appear in the schedule of classes and the SPIRE class search. Click the Change button to add or change a class note. Click the Delete button to delete a class note.
Examples of good uses for Class Notes: Use “Same as...
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Class Status indicates the availability of the section.
(A) “Active” means the section is viewable in the Class Search and students can register for it until capacity is reached.
(X) “Cancelled” classes do not appear in the Class Search and are not available for registration, but they may...
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UWW uses the Class Topic to denote that a class is part of a particular program/certificate. Often a particular program or certificate program has a different fee structure other than a 'standard' UWW class. For example, several Sociology classes have a CJ Cert topic. This means that this class is...
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The Comms page in CAPS is used to send internal correspondence to Registrar’s staff. The RSS (Registrar Scheduling Staff) will read the comment as part of the request.
The Email Recipients section of the Comm page is optional. You can email yourself or someone else in your department a...
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This is the full capacity of the section. It is used for room scheduling as well as registration purposes. In a multi-component course, combined laboratory and/or discussion section capacities greater than or equal to the capacity of the related lecture section(s).
CAPS glossary
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If this course will have a final exam, please choose ‘Y’. If there is no final exam offered, please select ‘N’.
Use the Final Exam comment field for any specific final exam requests you have, rather than using the general Comms page.
CAPS glossary
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Grading Access controls the instructor’s access to final grade rosters in SPIRE.
“None” – No access in SPIRE to grade roster
“Grade” – Can enter grades in SPIRE but not approve them for final processing
“Post *” – Can enter and approve grades in SPIRE
Grade Access pertains to SPIRE only, not...
