LSU has transitioned to Workday Student, a cloud-based software and a centralized location for all students’ needs including class registration, financial information access, transcript requests and graduation applications.
With class registration for the fall 2025 semester beginning Monday, the reaction to the Workday transition has been mixed. LSU biology freshman Najah Honore’ expressed her confusion with the new system.
“The Workday platform seems more complicated,” Honore’ said. “I got anxious just opening it.”
The transition to Workday has impacted not only students but also faculty and staff as they navigate this new system. Those involved in the system’s implementation are working to update the information in the system and work out issues before registration begins.
With the new system, students will have the ability to plan out their schedules for future semesters using the academic plans feature, something they could not do with course scheduling on myLSU.
The transition was announced in March 2022 after LSU A&M, LSU Alexandria, LSU Eunice and LSU Shreveport worked together to find a platform that would create a unified system across all the institutions.
LSU isn’t the first university system in Louisiana to transition to Workday Student, with Louisiana Tech transitioning to this processing system last fall. Louisiana Tech freshman studying construction engineering technology Rebecca Bain believes Workday Student has a purpose, but is very confusing.
“From a student’s perspective it is very chaotic. I do understand why they use it because financial aid where you go and pay is in there, but it is also academics where you go to register,” Bain said. “Everything is in one location and I guess you can say it is organized, but really it is a chaotic organization. There is too much organization, so it creates this chaos of ‘Wait where is everything?’”
LSU sophomore James Williams III is a member of the Workday committee and said students should continue to check their emails for updates and create a saved schedule.
“Workday definitely takes some time and exploration to get used to,” Williams, a music performance major, said. “What I believe is the most important thing for students to do is set up a saved schedule before their registration date. This allows them to add their course at once when they register.”
LSU offers the LSU Workday Website as a resource with everything from how-to guides and video tutorials helping students become acquainted with the new system. Students can find their registration date on the Workday website.
