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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Reference: Advising Capabilities

Reference: Advising Capabilities

You can view high-level feature descriptions for the capabilities in this product area.

Academic Planning

Provides the ability to define academic plans and alternate plans for students to register for courses that satisfy their academic requirements.

Academic Progress Definition

Provides the ability to define academic requirements to complete educational objectives. The functionality supports:
  • Grouping academic requirements.
  • Bundling academic requirements across groups.
  • Tracking academic requirements for programs of study.

Academic Progress Overrides

Supports overriding academic requirements in special circumstances.

Academic Progress Report

Provides the ability to track students’ academic requirements for their educational objectives and their progress toward those objectives.

Advisory Relationships

Provides the ability to track advisors that support students.

Explore Programs of Study

Provides the ability for administrators to assess how a student’s academic progress satisfies the requirements of another program of study.

Self-Service: Academic Planning

Supports students in managing their academic plans. The functionality supports:
  • Creating, editing, and changing primary and alternate academic plans.
  • Designing schedules from academic plans.
  • Approvals for academic plans.

Self-Service: Academic Progress

Provides the ability to:
  • Track their progress toward educational objectives.
  • View their academic prerequisites, courses, and overall status.

Self-Service: Explore Programs of Study

Provides the ability for students to assess their academic progress against the requirements of another program of study.

Student Cohort Membership

Provides the ability to group students for processing and reporting.