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Important Information
Outage Announcement:
Beginning Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, and ending Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 8:00 PM, VCCS will be performing its data archival process. As a result, users will be unable to access SIS 8.9 Production and the Online Application during this 8 hour outage window.
- The Spring 2010 Schedule of Classes is currently available online. Regular session and first 8-week session classes begin on January 11, 2010. Second 8-week classes begin on March 15, 2010. Registration for ELI online courses continues.
- Default passwords are not secure. If you are still using the default password initially provided to you (your birth date), please go to the Change Password page.
- Former NOVA students who have not taken credit classes after Spring 2007 need to complete the online application to update their information before they can enroll in Spring 2010 courses. This also applies to students who applied but did not take classes. Spring 2010 will not show up in the list of terms until the online application has been completed. You may also contact a campus Student Services Center for assistance if you have difficulty completing the online application for re-admission.
- If you are directed to contact a System Administrator, College Registrar, or Central Records Office, you should contact a Student Services Center on one of the campuses.
- Only credit card payments made through the NovaConnect Web will receive an automatic refund to the credit card if a class is dropped or cancelled. All refunds for payments NOT made on the Web are by check and sent to you by mail within a few weeks of the "last day for tuition refund" date.
- To register for any Continuing Education courses, contact the appropriate Continuing Education Office or use the shopping cart feature on the campus Continuing Education web sites to register for Continuing Education courses.
- NovaConnect requires that if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer to connect to NovaConnect, you must use Browser Version 6.0 or newer. Recent versions of Firefox, Netscape, and Safari can be used.
- When logging into NovaConnect, make sure letters in your password are case sensitive.
- Users must check and reset user preferences to be sure NVCC is in the institution box and the term is the current one!!!
- Be sure to click on the class detail icon on the right side of each class listing before you register for the class. It will show details available online for the class.