In plain English
It means two required course-related events are set for times that partly or fully coincide. Because they occur at the same time, one student cannot take part in all of them as assigned.
In context
Here, "Time conflict" reports that the selected registration items have overlapping assigned times for required course activities that the same student cannot all attend.
- Situation
- Enrolling in courses, choosing sections, joining waitlists, and reading class status
- What it communicates
- reports a scheduling-overlap problem during registration.
Meaning limits
The term itself establishes only that there is an overlap problem, not which activity should be changed.
Examples
“Nina has a time conflict because her required biology lab overlaps with her calculus final on Monday morning.”
“Her registration still shows a time conflict between the statistics lecture and the required tutorial.”