This year there’s a new way to choose the classes you want to take at Manhattan High School. Instead of having a booklet with all different courses and information, students can now access all that information online.

“The booklet is not going to be written out on paper, but [students] can access it online,” counselor Tony Wichmann said. “You can actually get it through our website and we’ll have a sheet in how to access that information. It’s all just virtual now.”

To access this information, students will have to go to their Infinite Campus account where they will have to follow some of steps.There will be an enrollment information meeting/elective fair for students and parents on Thursday at the MHS West campus with more information about the enrollment process.

“There is not very much difference from last year; this is the same process as we’ve done before,” Wichmann said. “We actually have that evening we’re opening up for all parents and students to come in and have a better idea of all kinds of electives they can select, and the counselors will be available to show students; we’ll have student meetings. We actually want the parents to see what we are communicating to all the kids.”

First, students will have to obtain a “course request worksheet” and complete it with the help of their teacher, counselor and parents. This sheet will have the name of the classes and their code. After they have completed it, students will need to turn it into their academic counselor. Next, the online phase of the whole process begins through Infinite Campus. Students will login into their accounts, where on the index there will be a Course Registration option. After clicking that box, students have to select “Request Courses.” Find the course name box, and course number box and then type the name of 14 different courses, seven for each semester.

Students will also select three different alternate courses. Once students have gone through the whole process, they’ll just need to print their “request summary” to keep their records.

“We live in a very digital age, and students are on their devices all the time, phones, iPads and laptops; things like that,” college counselor Katie Ball said. “We’re just getting away from paper because there is multiple places online where the courses are listed; it helps students because they are able to access it anytime, in any device, to see the options they’ve got.”