CAESAR will not allow you to register for two courses if there is an overlap in the course meeting times (including the labs, exams, or discussion sections, if any).

If you are an undergraduate student and would like to take two courses with slightly overlapping meeting times, you must follow the steps noted on the registrar’s time conflict webpage at https://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/registration- graduation/registration/time-conflict.html to complete and submit the time conflict frevvo form in order to be registered for classes with time conflicts on CAESAR. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of the Registrar at nu-registrar@northwestern.edu.

If you are a graduate student in a TGS program, you are required to complete the PDF version of the time conflict form and submit to gradservices@northwestern.edu.

Submission of a request does not automatically result in enrollment in the course with the time conflict; even if approval is granted, the process typically takes one or two days.

Exam Time Conflicts 

It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that there are no conflicts between the scheduled final exams for the courses in which you register. CAESAR does not check for this, so students must do so. Each quarter, the final exam schedule is published on the Registrar’s website at http://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/registration/final_exam_schedules.html 

 Occasionally an instructor may schedule an exam that does not follow the Registrar’s guidelines, or the class itself may be scheduled at an unusual time that results in an exam time conflict. If the issue cannot be resolved by working with the instructor of the unusually-scheduled class/exam time, students can consult with their academic advisor.