Wishlist

How to tell ABS Elevate you want a course you are not registering for — expressing interest, the note, the new-offering alert, the filters, and what the badges on a wishlist card mean.

The wishlist and the shortlist are two different features with two similar names, and almost everybody mixes them up at least once. Before anything else, the difference:

Your shortlist is a registration. It lives inside one registration window, it is ranked, it spends your credits, and it is what decides which courses you actually take. It is covered in Shortlist and credits.
Your wishlist is a signal. It costs nothing, commits you to nothing, takes no credits and gives you no place on anything. It tells the program office that you would like this course, and it asks to be told when something is scheduled.

If you want to take a course that is open for registration now, the wishlist is not the thing you need. Go and shortlist it.

When you can wishlist a course

Wishlisting is offered per course, and the program office decides. On each course in the catalog there is a setting — labelled Allow students to express interest on the administration screen — which is on unless somebody turns it off. Where it is on, the button appears; where it is off, there is nothing to press.

Two consequences are worth stating plainly, because the opposite is widely assumed:

A course does not have to be unscheduled to be wishlisted. A course with offerings running right now can still carry the button, and expressing interest in it is perfectly sensible — it says "not this time, but keep me in mind".
A course with nothing scheduled does not automatically get the button. If the program office has turned interest off for that course, no amount of wanting it will produce one.

There is one further condition. If the cohort's deadlines have been closed, the button is withdrawn and the existing wishlist entries for that cohort go read-only.

Adding a course

Open the course in the catalog

Choose Catalog inside your cohort and open the course you want. The wishlist lives on the catalog course page, not on the registration window's version of it.

Find the Offerings section

Scroll to the heading Offerings. This is the list of scheduled runs of the course, and it is where you would see "No Offerings available at the moment!" if there are none.

Choose Express Interest

The button sits to the right of that heading, with a bell icon. On a wide screen it takes effect immediately. On a phone the bell opens a short dialog headed Express Interest asking "Would you like to express interest in this course?", which you confirm.

The button then reads Interested, in green with a tick.

See how many others asked

Beside the button, ABS Elevate shows the running count — "12 Interested people", or "1 Interested person" for the first. That number is the whole point of the feature from the school's side: program officers use it to decide what to schedule next, so a wishlist entry is a small vote as well as a reminder.

To take it back, choose Interested again. On a phone this confirms first, with a dialog headed Cancel Interest. The entry leaves your wishlist and the count drops by one.

Your wishlist

The bookmark icon in the top navigation bar opens your wishlist, and carries a badge with the number of courses on it — up to 99+.

The page is headed My Wishlist with the count in brackets, and lists one card per course, newest first. The heading is not translated.

If there is nothing on it, the page says "Your wishlist is empty" and offers Explore Catalog.

What a card shows

Each card carries the course's cover image with its cost as a badge, the course title as a link back to the catalog page, the program it belongs to, and Added on with the date.

Along the bottom are one status badge and three controls.

Active offering and Pending offering

The badge tells you whether the course you asked for has anything scheduled:

Active offering, in green, with a number in front of it — "2 Active offering" means the course now has two scheduled runs you could look at.
Pending offering, in amber, means nothing is scheduled yet. Your interest is recorded and counted; there is simply nothing to register for.

A green badge is your cue to go back to the course and look at the dates. It is not a place, and it is not a registration — turning an offering into a place is the ordinary business of a registration window.

Notify me about new offerings

A switch labelled Notify me about new offerings sits beside the badge. Leave it on and ABS Elevate tells you when an offering appears for that course, which is the difference between a wishlist you have to remember to check and one that works for you.

It is set per course, so you can follow the two you really care about closely and leave the rest quiet.

The note

The speech-bubble button attaches a private note to the entry — why you wanted it, who suggested it, which term would suit you. It opens a box with Add note, up to 500 characters with a counter, and Save.

Once an entry has a note the button carries a small badge, and choosing it shows the note with the option to edit. Delete note removes it, after confirming "Are you sure you want to remove this note ?".

The note is for you. Nothing in the platform routes it to the program office, so if you want somebody to read it, say it to them directly.

Removing a course

The last button removes the entry. It asks first — Remove from wishlist:

Are you sure you want to remove this course from your wishlist? You can always add it back later.

Confirm removes it, Cancel leaves it alone, and the reassurance in the message is true: adding it back is a matter of finding the course and choosing Express Interest again.

Filtering a long wishlist

Above the cards is a row of filters, which is worth knowing about once your wishlist is more than a screen long. All four combine, and Clear filters resets them.

All Topics — narrow to the subjects you care about. The list has a search box, and says "No topics found." when nothing matches.
All Difficulties — filter by level.
All Programs — when you belong to more than one cohort, your wishlist mixes their courses together. This separates them.
Hide closed deadlines — a switch that hides entries belonging to a cohort whose deadlines have been closed.

Filter everything away and the page says "No results found", with Clear all filters to get back.

When a cohort's deadlines close

When the program office closes the deadlines for a cohort, its wishlist cards fade and stop responding. The card shows Registration Deadline Reached and, underneath:

The registration period for this cohort has ended. You can no longer modify your wishlist for these courses.

Nothing is deleted. You can still see what you asked for; you just cannot change it, and the note and the notification switch are no longer available on those entries. Hide closed deadlines exists to get them out of your way.