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[[Category:Academics]] [[Category:How-To]]
''PeopleSoft Enterpise Campus Solutions'' is Oracle's multi-million dollar program designed to "manage the entire student lifecycle--from recruiting and admissions to student services and alumni relations--in a secure and stable environment." [http://www.oracle.com/applications/peoplesoft/campus_solutions/ent/index.html] To most Williams students, however' installation, it is the way we register for which set back [[classes]] and view an unofficial [[transcriptUncle Eph]]$5.5 million dollars, went online by parts in 2003 and has been since PeopleSoft replaced [[SELFREG]] for these purposes in Fall 2004. PeopleSoft is also , replacing the College's accounting program, financial and treasurers of class registration systems (including [[:Category:Groups|student groupsSELFREG]] use PeopleSoft to access the financial records of their organization) that preceded it.
== Gripes ==
The PeopleSoft system, which students access and operate by their web-browsers, is widely complained about, and many students refer to the system, or the perennial practice of registering for classes through it, as the "PeopleSoft Hell". The program is huge and very powerful, but it admins have disabled student access to most of its features. Of what's left, Williams students only use a few, albeit important functions. The upshot is that the services that students most wish to use are hidden high at the tips of a huge menu tree, whose forks often contain only one option.
Students also complain of the program's speed. Because of the need to click through many menus and buttons to perform even the simplest functions, and because the display of these menus depends on the efficiency of your browser and the network's speed, using PeopleSoft can feel painfully slow. SELFREG, the [[Unix ]] system for registering for classes that preceded PeopleSoft, was much faster (though arcane in its own ways), and students who remember the old ways may be more likely to complain of PeopleSoft's speed.
==Navigating PeopleSoft==
