Academic Planning

  • Creating an Academic Plan

    There are multiple approaches to completing an an Academic Plan: An advisor can create a plan for a student and submit it for their review A student can create their own plan and submit to advisor for approval The student and advisor can work collaboratively on their academic plan Note: In order for the academic plan to display on the student record in the Student Vie...

  • Viewing an Academic Plan

    There are two ways to view a student’s academic plan.  One way is to search for the student under the “Students” tab and click on the Academic Plan Tab. You can also go to the “Plans” tab and search for a student.  While in the “Plans” tab, you can click on one of three “Plan Status” in the upper left-hand corner.  For example, buy clicking on “Approved” all academic p...

  • Editing an Academic Plan

    You can edit a student’s academic plan for the current and future terms.  Once you are on the academic planning page for the student, you will see the program template in the grayed-out area to the right.  The specific course sequence for the student is created through a drag and drop process.  You can only grab courses from the program template and place them in the ap...

  • Approving an Academic Plan

    A student’s academic plan is approved by clicking on the Approve in the upper left-hand corner.  Once the advisor and student have agreed upon their course schedule, the plan must be approved to ensure proper alerts are established should a student fall off-plan.  Once "Approved", faculty and staff will be able to view all approved plans in the Plan Tab of Student Succ...

  • What-If Analysis

    A student can explore alternate programs, view completed courses and determine how this impacts their path to completion.  We call this a “What-if” scenario.  Click on the “pencil” icon near the program template name to release a drop-down menu. Once you are in the drop-down menu, select the new program.  You can explore several different programs.  This does not chang...

  • Academic Planning Course Equivalencies

    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 records in the ...