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Last Updated: 2026-03-13
Evaluate Academic Progress

Evaluate Academic Progress

The academic progress report displays a student’s progress towards completion of their educational objectives. When evaluating academic progress, Workday considers all possible registrations from the academic record and applies them to requirements.
Workday automatically runs the academic progress evaluation job for students:
For more information about the events that trigger immediate or nightly evaluations, see Reference: Academic Progress Evaluation Triggers.
Workday doesn’t automatically evaluate academic progress when you update:
  • An academic requirement for an academic unit and level, program of study, or program area.
  • The academic requirements configuration for an academic unit and level, program of study, or program area.
For these configuration changes, you must manually launch the academic process evaluation.
You can launch academic progress evaluations for:
  • The node where you configured or updated the academic requirements. Example: You configure external articulation limits for the Economics program. You can evaluate academic progress for all students enrolled in the Economics Major program of study.
  • An individual student. You can access the applicable task from the related actions menu of the student profile in the Advising menu option.
For tenants with multiple institutions, you can evaluate academic progress for the academic records at the institution to which you have access.
  1. Access the applicable task:
    Task
    Security
    Description
    Launch Academic Progress Evaluation
    These domains in the Academic Advising functional area:
    • Manage: Academic Requirements
      . This domain also enables access for creating or editing academic requirements.
    • Manage: Launch Academic Progress Evaluation
      .
    Evaluate academic progress for an individual student, or multiple students by academic unit and level, program of study, or program area.
    Launch Academic Progress Evaluation for Student
    Manage: Launch Academic Progress Evaluation for Student
     domain in the Academic Advising functional area.
    Evaluate academic progress for an individual student.
  2. Specify the academic records that you want to evaluate academic progress for:
    Option
    Description
    Student
    Evaluate academic progress for the student you select.
    For students with multiple academic records, select the
    Academic Record
     that you want to evaluate.
    When an academic record has 1 or more inactive or completed programs of study, Workday displays the
    Evaluate All Programs of Study
     check box. Select the check box to evaluate academic progress for the entire academic record, including all active and inactive programs of study. When the check box is unchecked, Workday evaluates academic progress for only the student’s active programs of study.
    Academic Unit / Academic Level / Program of Study
    (Only on the
    Launch Academic Progress Evaluation
     task) Evaluate academic progress for all students in the academic unit and level or program of study.
    When you select a
    Program of Study
    , Workday evaluates academic progress for all students enrolled in the program of study.
    Program Area
    (Only on the
    Launch Academic Progress Evaluation
     task) Evaluate academic progress for all students enrolled in the programs of study in the program area.
  3. Select
    Confirm
    .
  4. Click
    OK
    .
Workday updates the student’s academic progress on the
Academic Progress
 report on the Academics profile group of the student profile.
You can view the academic progress evaluation job steps and failures each time the job runs, but Workday doesn't save reports or logs from previous runs of the job. When the academic progress evaluation job completes, Workday displays a notification for logged-in users. To view job statuses, you can use the
Student Nightly Job Orchestration Results
 report (secured to the
Reports: Student Nightly Job Orchestration
 domain in the Student Financials functional area) and clear the
Launched by Nightly Job Orchestration
 check box.