Academic Planning

Overview Academic planning provides a student, and their advisor, with a means to collaborate regarding a curriculum path a student should follow. Students are unique in their purpose for college, whether it be for a degree, certificate, or a skills upgrade, and Student Success & Engagement supports this individualism through the creation of customized academic plans. ...

The academic planning configuration screen permits an institution to turn on/off the Academic Planning features within SS&E. Both "Enable Academic Planning" and "Enable Academic Plan Generation" must be enabled, eg. set to Yes, in order to generate an academic plan. To learn more about the purpose of Academic Planning, check out the article An Introduction to Academi...

Note: In addition to Academic Planning, Grades Administration applies to Achievements and some Alerts, including Midterm Grade. Overview Grades listed in Academic Planning Administration display what each grade in your SIS and LMS represent. Grades Administration provides the ultimate flexibility as it allows SS&E to accommodate the way each individual institution uses ...

Overview Academic planning provides a student, and their advisor, with a means to collaborate regarding a curriculum path a student should follow. To learn more about the purpose of Academic Planning, check out the article An Introduction to Academic Planning. Academic Plan Automatic Template Generation When enabled, the SS&E software will automatically pull informatio...

Student Success & Engagement supports three types of Academic Plans Manual Academic Plan templates are managed from the Administrator interface. As an administrator, navigate to the Admin application area and navigate to Academic Planning > Academic Plan Templates. This will navigate you to the list of Academic Plan Templates where you can see a list of all of the exist...

If extensive academic planning is occurring within the SIS or other system, read-only academic plans can be a useful place to display this information. Academic plans imported as only read-only format can be a valuable and user-friendly tool within SS&E for conversations around student academic planning. Crucially: Read-only academic plans cannot be altered inside SS&E...

  Each Academic Plan Template has a status. The statuses are: New The Academic Plan Template was automatically created by an import job and has not yet been edited by a person. Once edited by a person, the status will automatically be changed to "In Progress." In Progress The Academic Plan Template is currently in a "draft" state and not ready to be published. This is t...

Overview Academic Planning is an add-on module within SS&E that requires setup by SS&E staff along with the institution's staff. Academic Plan Term Statuses will be added at no cost to institutions that already use Academic Planning. To add Academic Planning to your Watermark Student Success & Engagement product suite, please open a support ticket or reach out to your ...

Overview To determine if a student has passed a course that is on the selected academic plan template, it looks for it on the student's transcript (the courses they have taken and passed). As courses change over time, it's common for a course's name or number to change, or even its entire coding. For instance, MAT-110 might now be coded MAT-118, and there are two record...

Question How does SS&E determine which terms will display on an academic plan? Answer The Academic Plan page will display: Terms that are active (see definition explained below) Terms that are associated with one or more course group Terms that are associated with one or more course section Terms that have an academic plan status of "Off Plan" This will prevent inacti...

  Create an Off Plan Alert (Administrator) An automatic alert can be created for a student who veers off their approved academic plan. This can be created from within the Administrative interface. As an administrator, click on your profile image to open the application menu, then click Administration. Navigate to Categories & Notifications Alerts. Click the "New" butto...

Before we start The software can be configured to automatically generate new academic plans when the catalog year is updated within the institution's SIS. This happens as a part of a background job that runs every 15 minutes.  By default each student's academic plan is empty (there are no courses, and no assigned academic plan template), and it is in the "New" status. T...