If you are a NEW BTI STUDENT you must fill out the New Student Registration Form to gain access to the BTI Consortium Portal. Click here to go to the New Student Registration Form. (It is also listed under the "Resources" tab)
Once you have submitted the New Student form, your information and eligibility is confirmed by your home registrar and a BTI Consortium Portal account is created for you automatically.
You will receive your username and password via email immediately. *Note: you MUST use your .edu address to register as a BTI Consortium student, and you only have to register as a BTI Consortium student once - if you have forgotten your log in,contact us!
Once your request for cross-registration has been approved by your school's registrar, you will receive a second email notifying you that you are eligible to cross register through our portal. Again, find a step-by-step guide here!
RETURNING STUDENTS
Students who have used the BTI Consortium Portal before can go straight to the portal and submit the cross-registration form using the desired course number. BTI Consortium Portal credentials can be re-used every semester. Contact us at btioffice@bostontheological.org if you forgot your login!
REGISTRATION BASICS - EASY AS 1, 2, 3!
1) Browse courses! You can browse the Catalog website (blue button below) or the searchable Excel.
2) To the Portal! Log in, and fill out all requested information (from the Catalog/Excel).
3) Submit! After you click submit, all confirmation and approval emails will come to your school email address provided by you in the New Student Registration Form. You can also refer to this handy flow chart of the process!
BROWSE COURSES
Each year, we aim to begin posting the next semester's course guide by mid-May (for Fall registration) and mid-November (for Spring registration).
It will be posted here both in a searchable website format with full course descriptions (blue button) and in a searchable/filter-enabled Excel format.
As you browse, keep these things in mind:
1) Only the listed, approved BTI courses are available for cross-registration.
If you have any questions or have a specific case-by-case need, contact us at btioffice@bostontheological.org
2) HDS Registration and "Shopping Period" is unique.
HDS has later term start and end dates than many other BTI schools. Courses normally are not published until late June/early July for the coming academic year. The BTI loads them into the portal as soon as they are available from HDS. While the BTI does its best to keep up with changes, please check the HDS public course listings for up-to-the-minute course details.
While you can register for an HDS course as soon as they are listed in the portal, and receive your HOME registrar’s approval, HDS does not process any cross-registrations until the week before their semester begins (typically late August/early September for fall; late January for spring). Enrollment in an HDS course is not final until you receive confirmation from the HDS registrar.
NOTE: if an HDS course requires instructor approval, as noted in the course guide, you must contact the course instructor via email for permission. It is your responsibility to either cc: or forward the instructor’s approval to hdsxreg@hds.harvard.edu in order for HDS to enroll you in such courses.
3) Note professor approval, and get it first!
Make sure to look at the 'Professor Approval' column in the Excel, or as listed in the PDF. The BTI cannot keep a contact list of the hundreds of faculty members, but likely their contact information is listed online. If Google cannot help, please Click here for a list of registrar contacts at all our member schools.
4) Plan for variable dates between two schools!
Check out the academic calendars between your home and desired host school - make sure you can meet on the days/times as well as holidays, start/end dates, etc.
5) Note COVID19 Protocols
Most BTI Schools are REQUIRING VACCINATION and BOOSTERS to cross-register.
You may be asked to provide mandated vaccination records to the host, as well as your home, school (and/or medical/religious exemption).
Please contact your home institution with any questions.
Follow the button below to the portal with your BTI Consortium credentials (Hint: your username will most likely be formatted as lastname@bostontheological.org).
If you have not filled out the New Student Registration form and obtained portal credentials from the BTI Consortium office, then you will not be able to access the portal.