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Welcome to NECIN

Welcome to "NECIN" (the New England Community Information Network), New England Law’s communications tool. 

Services Provided to Students

NECIN allows students to see grades for courses completed during the semester as they are entered and released by the Registrar’s office. An unofficial transcript displays grades for courses completed in prior semesters. Students can also see their schedules and certain scheduling information including room numbers, meeting times, and course enrollments. Finally a link to a school search engine is provided that allows students access to faculty contact information. Students are able to register for courses online via NECIN, as well as adjusting their course schedules (Add/Drop).

Using NECIN

1. Your Web Browser. If your computer uses a Microsoft operating system, please use Internet Explorer 6.0 (enhanced by Service Pack 2) or a more recent version of Explorer to access NECIN. If you own a Macintosh computer, please use Internet Explorer 5.2.3 or a more recent version of Explorer to access the system. The school can only fully support Internet Explorer as an access tool, although a number of other browsers may provide complete or some access to the NECIN site. A number of older versions of Internet Explorer will not work with NECIN.

2. Your ID and PIN Numbers. NECIN’s log-in page will ask for these numbers. Use your unique New England Law-provided ID number (the number that you write on bluebooks) as your NECIN ID, and your PIN that was sent to your school email on December 7, 2009.   Problems?  Contact the Help Desk at (617) 622-7404 or NECINhelp@nesl.edu.

3. When You Can Review Your Grades. Each semester following the final examination period, grades will be posted on NECIN by the Registrar’s Office as soon as they are made available by faculty members and properly processed. You can view grades on NECIN every weekday afternoon, beginning at 5 p.m. “My Grades” is also available 24 hours a day on weekends. You will not be able to view grades from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, as the Registrar’s Office will be entering grades into the database during those hours. Also “My Grades” will be unavailable following spring semester final examinations on the day that Senior Rankings are being completed; that day normally falls in mid-May.

4. Online Registration. All students will be pre-registered into courses, as all course schedules are subject to a final review by the Registrar’s Office. If a problem is detected, the Office of the Registrar will contact you directly. Students will receive their finalized course schedule in the mail within two weeks of registering. Once the course schedules are reviewed and approved, a notation of “Current” will also appear next to all courses on the NECIN website.

5. Excess Traffic on the NECIN Site. NECIN can accommodate 500 users at any one time. Additional users will be denied access. If you are denied access because of excess traffic on the site, please wait 15 minutes and try the system again.

6. Submission of Grades by Professors to the Registrar. Please remember that grades generally must be submitted to the Registrar by a faculty member after the fall semester (5 weeks from the date of a final examination or final paper deadline) and after the spring semester (30 days from the date of a final examination or final paper deadline.) Also in the spring, the grades of senior students must be submitted earlier, before Commencement. The Registrar’s Office will process and enter all grades as they are received. If you do not see a grade for a course on NECIN, that means that the grades for that course have not been submitted. Please also note that when a grade for a student’s course is posted on NECIN, that course’s name is removed from “My Schedule.” Thus as more and more grades appear for a student, the student’s schedule for the semester in which the grades were earned is gradually erased in NECIN.

7. Locating Faculty Contact Information. You will be directed to an existing law school search engine for faculty contact information. When you search for contact information concerning adjunct faculty members, you will ultimately be asked to contact the Faculty Secretaries’ Office located on the fourth floor of the Stuart Street building. Individual adjunct faculty members (practicing judges and lawyers) have unique needs regarding the release of information and have explained those needs to faculty secretaries.

8. Using the Back Button in NECIN. After you log in to NECIN, you might try to use your browser’s back button to return to the first page in NECIN that contains content (i.e. the page that welcomes you by name). If you do so, you will be given an error message that says "Warning: Page Has Expired." The warning message is built into the current release of the underlying software product and cannot be removed or bypassed by the law school. If you receive this message, you must click both the "refresh" button on your browser tool bar and the "retry" button in the pop-up box that appears to reach the page you’re trying to locate. You can navigate to all the other pages within NECIN using the back button or the list of links displayed on the left hand side-panel.

NECIN Provides Unofficial Information Only

NECIN provides access only to unofficial transcripts and schedules. The school will continue to mail official transcripts and schedules to all students.

Problems You May Encounter

You can check the accuracy of an online grade by comparing it to the grade reported for the same course in the transcript that is mailed to you.

Where to Report Problems

Problems Concerning Navigation Through the Site and Usability or Technical Issues Related to Online Registration: Please send email messages concerning such problems to the school’s Help Desk. The address is: NECINhelp@nesl.edu. You may also call the Help Desk at (617) 422-7404.

Problems Concerning the Accuracy of Grades and Schedules, or Inquiries about Registering for Courses Online (non-technical questions) Such as Credits, Requirements, Course Offerings, etc.: Please send email messages concerning these problems to the Registrar’s Office. The address is registrar@nesl.edu. You may also call the Registrar’s Office at (617) 422-7215.

There will be extended office hours during registration periods. These extended hours are published in the current Red Book, available online at both the New England Law and NECIN websites.

Thank You.  We are very pleased that we are able to offer this service to our students. Many members of the administrative staff worked hard to make NECIN a reality. The law school extends its thanks to them, as well as to the SBA which helped in its development.

The Dean’s Office