Registration Permits/ Overrides (for Department Heads)
Most registration permits can be given to students electronically:
- Department heads and their designees will give permits via the Banner Administrative interface for courses offered by their department.
- Instructors should be able to give instructor permission and prerequisite overrides via Self-Service for the classes in which they are listed as the primary instructor of record.
- Advisors will give prerequisite overrides via the Advisor Prerequisite Override system which can be found in the Advisor tab of Self-Service (Advisor Prerequisite Override).
Registration permits can be given at the course level (will apply to any section of a given course) or the section level. Primary instructors can only give overrides at the section level (for the sections they teach). Permits do not automatically enroll a student in a class, and students must enroll themselves online after a permit has been given. In the table below, "Department" refers to the department offering the course unless otherwise indicated.
Permit Type |
Overrides |
Who can Give Permit? |
Department Approval |
Special approval |
Department |
Instructor Approval |
Special approval |
Instructor or Department |
Outreach Approval |
Special approval |
Outreach Department |
Prerequisite Override |
Enforced pre- or co-requisite courses and exam scores |
Department, Instructor or Advisor |
Student Attribute Override |
Student attribute restrictions |
Department who maintains the attribute |
Student Program Override |
Restrictions to students in specific degree, college, classification, major, option, and/or minor |
Department |
Mutual Exclusion Override |
Enrollment in mutually exclusive (overlapping) classes |
Department |
Duplicate Course Override |
Enrollment in more than one section of the same course in the same semester |
Department |
Maximum Cumulative Hours Limit Override | Cumulative maximum hour limit for variable credit courses | Department |
Some registration permits will remain outside of Banner, and require a paper/manual override:
Excessive hours petitions
- Class time conflict
- Level overrides (ex: undergraduate student enrolling in a graduate level course)
Note that there will be no closed/full class overrides in Banner. Departments can contact the Registrar’s Class Scheduling team (gurooms@okstate.edu) to request an increase in the class maximum enrollment to allow additional students to register in a class.