Advising and Course Registration for Students

**IMPORTANT:  ALL GUIDES ARE FOR THE CLASSIC STUDENT CENTER**

Resolve the Financial Terms and Conditions Hold

• • 1. Log in to your Mainestreet Student Center: http://usm.maine.edu/mainestreet. Your username is the beginning of your USM email address before the @ symbol.  Your password is the same one used to access your USM email.

    2. Click on “Student Self Service” from the menu of links.

    3. Click on “Classic Student Center”

    4. Click on the link for “Financial Terms and Conditions Statement” in your Mainestreet Student Center To Do List and follow the prompts.  The To Do List is on the right column of the page.
       
       

Instructions for creating a Wish List in Mainestreet

1. Go to your Student Center and click on the "Wish List" link on the left side of the page.

2. Select the semester.

3.  Click on "search". DO NOT TRY TO ENTER A CLASS NUMBER. You will need to use the "search" button.   

4. Enter the course prefix and number, for example "NUR" and "300", and click search.

5. You will see a list of available courses. Courses that have open seats are identified by a green circle.   Courses that do not have open seats have a blue square.  A yellow triangle indicates that the course is full and a waitlist is available.

6. On the right side of the page, click "select" for the course you want to add to your Wish List.

7. On the next screen click "next". and the course is now on your Wish List.  

8. Students can add more than one section of a course to their Wish List, and we often encourage this for labs since they have small enrollments and may fill up quickly.  It's good to have a backup section in mind in case your preferred section is full when you go to register.
   
   

Instructions for Identifying the Registration Date in Mainestreet

 At USM, students register on different dates, depending on the number of credits they have completed. The more credits, the earlier the registration date.

1. Go to your Mainestreet Student Center.

2. On the right side of the page, partway down, you will see a section for "Enrollment Date". This shows you the date at 6 am when you may start registering for an upcoming semester.  Dates are usually posted a few months before registration begins.

View Advising Notes

1. In your Student Center, look at the right side column.  Partway down the page is a section showing your advisor(s) names, and just below the names is a link for "Advisor Notes".

2. Click on that link, and you'll see your most recent note.   

3. At the top of that note is a link to "view all" and if you click that you can scroll back through your entire advising note history.

View & Understand Transfer Credit Report

1. Log in to your Mainestreet Classic Student Center.

2. Look at the left column of links and click on “Transfer Credit Report.”

3. The report will be displayed and include your entire transfer history.

4. Once you’ve accessed your Transfer Credit Report you will first see information about the which non-USM university you took classes at and below that a table of courses.

1. The Source Institution shows where you took the original course.

2. Incoming Course:  left side of the table, including the name, course number, and grade for the original course you took.  

3. Equivalent Course:  right side of the table, and shows what USM determined the course would equal at USM.

4. The last column on the right side shows whether the course met any Core general education requirements.

5. Anything that transferred as #XX course in the USM equivalent column means that USM determined that the course was good for college credit, but that it did not exactly match any of our courses.  Consult with your advisor about courses that transfer in as #XX and how they will impact your degree plan.