South Dakota Mines Online: Current Student Resources
Register for Classes
Distance Education students register for courses using our registration system called Self-Service Banner.
Getting Started on Your Courses
The program coordinator and individual course instructors will assist you with questions you have about how to get started. Once a semester begins, it's important to get started on your program immediately, since you may have assignments in the first week of your course.
Detailed information on each individual program, including program requirements, course schedules, contact information, and more -- is available by clicking on your program below.
Help Resolving Technical Issues
South Dakota Mines provides technical assistance for on and off-campus students. The
How Do I webpage offered by
Information Technology Services (ITS) offers answers for many questions. If you need technical help for Distance Education programs, our
Get Technical Help webpage will provide contact information, hours, and other answers.
Help Resolving Complaints
The
South Dakota Board of Regents, on behalf of the State of South Dakota,
participates in the National Council for State Authorization
Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA).
“State authorization” means that a university, such as South Dakota Mines, is authorized
to deliver educational programming via distance in the state for which
authorization is held. A current list of states
participating in SARA can be found here: http://www.nc-sara.org/directory.
Students enrolled
in a fully online program at South Dakota Mines who have a complaint pertaining to the
program in which they are enrolled must go through the complaints process
described by the Office of Graduate Education https://www.sdsmt.edu/Campus-Life/Student-Complaint-Process/
Complainants who
remain dissatisfied with the disposition of a complaint regarding a
distance-delivered academic program may appeal to the SARA administrator at the
South Dakota Board of Regents. For details, please consult the SARA
Complaint Procedures section of the South Dakota Board
of Regents website.