In our MFA Students Canvas group, click on Modules, and you will see several Assignments under the Registration module. All students should complete the Registration Response assignment, even if you are sitting out winter quarter (click on that assignment link for full instructions & info).

Optional assignments include the Thesis registration request (if your final quarter is WIN QTR 18), the Wait List request (post AFTER all sections of a class are full), and requesting to read in the MFA Reading event on December 15 (see assignments for details). Due dates are listed in the Canvas assignments.

Note that there is no longer a teacher grant assignment, due to a new process for this grant through Admissions (see Teacher Grant link for details).

Review the class schedule and click on each class title to read the course description, class type, and textbook info to determine which classes will work best for you for winter. 

Then you will post your registration response in the MFA Students group in Canvas (click on Modules to see assignment links). In your response, you will either request that your advisor enable your portal so that you may register yourself on 11/13 (highly recommended), or you will post your preferred class choices (and back-up choices) and request that your advisor enroll you (in the order of requests posted). Registration requests may be posted in Canvas as soon as the registration info email is received on 11/6, and it is highly recommended that you post there by November 12. 

The registration portal will open for enrollment on November 13 at 7am Central Time. Note that if you click the Registration button in the student portal before that date and time, you will receive an error message—that button is only used to self-enroll in classes during the open enrollment period starting 11/13, after you have posted your registration response requesting that your advisor enable your portal for registration.

If you have not yet accepted your invitation to the MFA Students group in Canvas, please do that now. If you need the invitation resent to your Lindenwood email account, email your MFA Advisor to request that.

If you have accepted your invitation to the Canvas group but do not see the group on your Dashboard, you will need to add it to your Dashboard: Click on Courses in the left black column, then click All Courses. Scroll through your class list and locate MFA Students. Click the star to the left of the title MFA Students (the star will fill with color when you click it—if it doesn’t at first, click again until it fills). Once you have starred the group title, click on Dashboard, and you will see the MFA Students group there.

Students who request to self-register (RECOMMENDED):

If your account is currently on a Business Hold (you can check this in your student portal, and individual emails will be sent before registration begins), you will need to contact the Business Office (RTungate@lindenwood.edu or 636-949-4962) to make arrangements to have the hold removed before the system will allow you to register for winter.

If your portal notes that you are on an academic hold, please email your MFA Advisor. The system will not allow your advisor to register you for classes until all holds are removed.

• ONLINE CLASSES first assignment, start date, etc.
• On-Campus cluster first assignment, start date, etc.

• Read information about the Teacher Grant process (for teachers of elementary, middle school, or high school) HERE
• Contact Admissions regarding the community college instructor grant
• Contact Admissions regarding the 60+ grant

Read information about the option to declare an emphasis (not required) in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction HERE.

• Projected Class Schedule 17-18
• 17-18 Academic Calendar at a glance
• Important Upcoming Dates for MFA Students