There are several reasons why the automated LEO registration system might refuse to let you into a class. As rule, course instructors will need to know what the problem is before they can issue an override for you or beforee they are even abe to decide if they are willing to do so.
If LEO refuses to allow you to register, it generally gives some indication as to which of the above is the problem. If you ask an instructor to override LEO and let you into the course, they will have to ask you what LEO indicated the problems was. Instructors really cannot enter a blanket override for all possible registration issues.
When you enrolled at ODU, you were assigned a home "campus" depending on whether you were a local student or a distance student. You have tried to register for a site that does not match that "campus". You need to pick the course section whose site or room name matches your home location (or you need to contact the Registrar's office about getting your campus designation changed).
In fact these are not rooms at all. These codes are used with "pure" web courses that have no televised sessions.
A course section listed in "web hr" is open to enrollment to anyone on the Norfolk campus or at one of the four Higher Educ. Centers (Virginia Beach, Peninsula, Tri-Cities, and Northern Virginia). A section listed as "web va" is open to anyone else in Virginia, and "web nonva" denotes a section open to distance students outside Virginia.
These are older names for "web hr", " web va", and "web nonva".
When we offer a regular on-campus course, enrollment is automatically limited by physical factors such as classroom size and by our ownestimates of how many students can be supported by a single instructor before the quality of instruction begins to degrade.
Distance courses, expecially web-based courses, are even more sensitive than conventional courses to the instructor's ability to respond promptly to individual student's questions and problems. A web-based course may be offered to more than 30 different sites. Obviously, if each site were to register as many students as go into a normal on-campus class, the instructor's ability to respond to individual students would be drastically reduced.
To preserve the quality of instruction in web-based courses, the CS Dept. has adopted the simple guideline of limiting distance course enrollments to the same limits that we would impose on an on-campus course. To do otherwise would, we believe, compromise the educational experience offered to the distance students.
Furthermore, to allow students at each site equal access to our offerings, we place caps on each site's section enrollment so that no one site can monopolize the course during the early enrollment period. (Not all sites conduct registration at the same time, so a simple first-come, first-served policy is not considered fair.)
As the registration period progresses, adjustments may be made in these caps as it becomes clear that demand for the course is higher at some sites than at others. If the toal demand for a course at all sites exceeds the overall enrollment cap, we look into alternatives such as finding additional instructors or additional resources to support a higher enrollment load, but this may not be possible (particularly if the situation does not become apparent until late in the scheduling and enrollment process).
First, if you are a Norfolk student or a student at one of the ODU Higher Education Centers in the Hampton Roads area, and if it is still the first several weeks of registration, just wait. As explained above, enrollment caps at these sites start small to give other sites some opportunity to register for the course) but are relaxed after the first serveral weeks of registration.
Let your advisor know that you are trying to get into the course. For Norfolk and Higher Ed. Center students, contact the CS Dept advisors. Students at more distant sites should contact their academic advisor. We try to respond to enrollment pressures as well as we can (there's no incentive for us to turn students away!) but we need to learn from the advisors which sections are in the most demand.
If you think that ODU records about you are incorrect or incomplete for some reason, and that you have other courses and/or experience that are equivalent to the prerequisites, contact the course instructor and explain why you believe that you do have the background required to succeed in the course.
You need to make your case clearly and may need to back it up with details. For example, titles of courses you have taken may not be enough. You may need a syllabus and/or outline of the course to make your case.
Don't be upset if the instructor is skeptical. No one wants to set up a student for failure by admitting to a course where they are unlikely to succeed.
If you are uncertain about whether your background is sufficient to take the coruse, search around and see if the website from prior semesters' offerings are available. Look for both the course you are trying to get into and for the pre-requisite courses. Find out what those prerequisite courses actually teach and what is expected of students at the beginning of the next course. If the instructor believes that you are making an informed assessment of your own chances in the course, he or she is much more likely to agree to a waiver.