Degree Pathways

The Degree Pathway tool provides a personalized planning experience for active or enrolled students. It enables the students to map and visualize a plan that shows how they can get from the beginning to the end of their programs, course by course, term by term. Degree Pathways option is used to engage and involve students and gives advisors the ability to help plan using student focused choice.

If the selected student is:

  • A Prospect or an Applicant / Duplicate Applicant, an error message is displayed as "Degree Pathway is not available as there is no enrollment"

  • A Graduate or Withdrawn from School, an error message is displayed as "Degree Pathway is not available for this role"

Your advisor must verify if degree pathway is enabled for the specified Program of Study.

You can access Degree Pathways in the Student Portal.

  1. Navigate to My Academics > Degree Pathways. The Degree Pathways page is displayed.

  2. Click the enrolled program you want to view the degree pathways for. If a Degree Pathway is available for the Program of Study, it will be displayed.

    Note: The number in the circle beside each Program of Study indicates the number of degree pathways available for that program. 0 indicates that there is no Degree Pathway available for that Program of Study.

    Degree Pathways

View Degree Pathway Templates for an Enrollment

You can use the Degree Pathway page to create a template that contains a guided pathway within your institution for an enrollment. Any templates that you configure are copied when you copy the enrollment.

You can have different courses and course order for each catalog. You can create the suggested pathway for the catalog by placing the various courses in a specific order based on the catalog.

The pathway template also contains placeholders for student electives allowing all terms in the enrollment to be created and populated with credits before the course name is known. If an elective pool is configured with a number of credits or hours, the template displays a message if you exceed the value. However, you can save and continue with the pathway template.

  1. Navigate to My Academics > Degree Pathways. The Degree Pathways page is displayed.

  2. Click the enrolled program for which you want to view the degree pathways. The Student Plan, Template Plan, and other Degree Pathway plans are displayed.

    Degree Pathways

    You can view the course details of the degree pathway under any of the plans.

    1. Click the plan for which you want to view the course details.

    2. Click the course code. The course details are displayed.

      Course Details

    3. The details displayed depend on the status of the plan. If the course is in:

      • Completed Status, the dialog displays details such as Course Code, Course Name, Credits, Hours, Max Attempts, Fee, Course Status, Requisite Details, Description, Attributes, Skills.

        Completed Status

      • Future Status, an additional message is displayed at the end. Class Schedule Details will display after you register for the course. Click the Cancel button to close the popup.

        Future Status

      • Registered/Scheduled Status, the Class Schedule Details field is displayed that can be expanded or collapsed.

        Registered Status

    Note: You can view the course code/published course code as configured by your institution.

Student Plan

To view the Student Plan, click the View button. The Student Plan page is displayed.

Course Info

  1. Review the information for the enrolled program.

    Click the Collapse icon icon to view details about:

    1. Program Information

    2. Pathway Information

      Pathway Info

    3. Click the Show Requisites button to display the Requisites (Pre & Corequisite) arrows. This button toggles to Hide Requisites.

    4. Click the Print button to print the degree pathway plan (You must ensure that print orientation is set to landscape mode and the print scale set to 100% to print a degree pathway plan correctly.)

    5. Click Email. The Compose Email dialog is displayed. You can download the degree pathway plan, attach it, and send to the specified email address.

      Compose Email

    6. Click New Term to add a term to the desired location.

    7. Click Move Term to change the position of a term.

    8. Click Save As to save the plan to a new draft plan.

    9. Click Open Courses to expand the list of courses.

    10. Click the Info icon icon to display the course prerequisites and corequisites.

    11. Click the Refresh icon icon to display information about number of attempts, retakes and repeats.

    12. Click the Alert icon icon to display information about the missing courses on the course list.

  2. To display the arrows that connect the courses, click the Show Requisites button. The solid line indicates prerequisites while the dotted line indicates the corequisites.

    The following example shows the arrows for correctly placed in a Student Plan: 

    • Prerequisites
    • Corequisites

    Indicators

    Note: The color coding indicates the status of the courses, i.e., future course, registered, completed, or unfulfilled.

    Color code

Template Plan

To view the Template Plan, click the View button. The Template Plan page is displayed.

Template Plan

  1. Review the information for the enrollment.

    1. Click the Show Requisites button to display the Requisites (Pre & Corequisite) arrows. This button toggles to Hide Requisites.

    2. Click Print button to print the degree plan (You must ensure that print orientation is set to landscape mode and the print scale set to 100% to print a degree pathway template correctly.)

    3. Click Email. The Compose Email dialog is displayed. You can download the degree pathway plan, attach it, and send to the specified email address.

      Compose Email

    4. Click Open Courses to expand the list of courses.

    5. Click the Info icon icon to display the course prerequisites and corequisites.

    6. Click the Refresh icon icon to display information about number of attempts, retakes and repeats.

  2. To display the arrows that connect the courses:

    1. Click the Show Requisites button. The solid line indicates prerequisites while the dotted line indicates the corequisites.

      The following example shows the arrows for correctly placed in a template plan: 

      • Prerequisites
      • Corequisites

      Template Plan Indicators