The Student Planner provides students and advisors a roadmap for program completion. This empowers students to create a personalized pathway. The student plan includes all completed, currently enrolled, and future planned courses by term.
Quick links to training topics below:
The student planner organizes a student's courses by term rather than by requirement. The plan can be accessed from the Plans tab on the student's profile.
There are multiple display views in the Plan. The expanded view displays full course details for each term, including total credits per semester planned, course title & number, course enrollment status, section number, and semester session. The compact view displays a condensed overview which only includes the semester tile and list of courses in the plan by term.
The Side-by-side view displays the student plan alongside the student's program(s) requirements. Click on the "Toggle Sidebar" view option at the top of the student's planner. This view emulates what the student sees when they log into Stellic. You can drag courses or requirements directly to the student's planner from this view.
Note: The changes you make here will also be reflected on the student's plan, and the student will be notified.
By hovering the cursor over a course, connected course will become highlighted (prerequisites, co-requisites). This is a great way to visualize in the plan, which courses are connected to previous and future courses.
Course details: Clicking on a course tile will provide course information such as its description, prerequisites requirements it fulfills, section, instructor details and semesters offered.
Transfer credits are displayed at the bottom of the plan page.
Classes already completed/registered will automatically populate into the planner, while transfer courses will be listed at the very bottom of the planner. Any courses failed or withdrawn will be grayed out.
To view a student plan as a weekly schedule, click the calendar icon next to the current term. This allows the student to review the planned courses and how it will fit into the student's weekly schedule.
From the Student Planner heading, there are options to:
Download Plan (Arrow icon)
Print Audit Report (Printer icon)
Change History (Clock icon)
Toggle Sidebar (Tab Icon)
To manually add a new semester, click the “+ [semester]” button inside the dashed box.
To manually add items into an existing semester, click the “+ Add to [semester]” button
When adding to a semester, you have the option to add a specific course, a requirement, to search for courses, or add an activity.
If the exact course is known, use the search courses option and enter the course name into the search. Clicking on the "Active Filters" link will additionally open the course search sidebar. Here you can review which search filters are being applied. If a course is not listed, it could be for a variety of reasons. Such as the course and all it's sections are full or the course is not typically offered that term. Adjusting course search filters will allow you to identify other available courses.
To add a requirement such as the LOPER general education requirements, select the Requirement button and search for the specific requirement, a list of available options will then appear.
The Search Courses option will pull up the course search feature in the sidebar and allow for a search of courses by semester(s), the requirement it fulfills, instructor, department, attribute, and number of credits. These courses can then be dragged into the semester being planned.
Adding an Activity allows students to enter a non-course activity and add an optional activity type. This feature is useful when students are reviewing their plan in the weekly schedule view.
When building a plan from scratch, to plan for unrestricted electives, drag the 120-hour requirement from the side view into the semester being planning. This will default to 3 hours, but you can add a note to indicate any additional information.
To remove courses and requirements, in the side-by-side view, you also have the option to remove all future courses from a student’s plan. Click on the 3 dots and select Remove All Future Courses.
To individually remove a course or requirement from the plan, click on the X in the upper right-hand side of the tile.
Placeholders are courses and requirements indicated by a dashed outline. Placeholders are helpful in planning when a certain requirement has a range of possible courses that will satisfy that requirement. Adding a placeholder to the student plan is the same function as adding a course.
Tip: To identify placeholders, utilize the Remaining tab within the sidebar. The placeholder can be dragged and dropped into the student plan.
Pathways are student plan templates that outline how a program could be completed by recommended courses and requirements sequenced by term. Pathways are beneficial when exploring and building student plans. Learn more about Pathways.
Note: Currently Pathways do not account for minors, the 120-hour minimum requirement, or the 40 hours of upper division requirement, experiential learning, etc., so additional courses may need to be added.
To apply a Pathway to a student's plan, navigate to the Applied Pathway heading, and click on select pathway. There are two options, Quick Add, and Explore Pathways.
Quick Add option, will bring up a window where the Pathway selection can be made. Clicking on Explore Pathways will bring you to the available Pathways that can be browsed and applied similarly.
The other option to identify pathways is to select the Pathways link from the left hand menu.
Visit the Pathways page for more in-depth information.
Students can create multiple student plans that are separate from their Primary plan. This is an option for students that would like to explore other plan or program options. UNK currently supports up to 3 student plans. To create a new plan in the student planner, next to the Primary Plan heading, click on the three dots, and select "Create a new plan"
Next, select a reason for creating a new plan.
From here the student can title their secondary plan and apply a program or pathway.
Students can then toggle between the Primary and secondary plans by clicking on the ^ icon next to the Plan title. Clicking on the +Add Program to plan allows students to add Major or Minors to the plan. The Actions button allows the student to delete or download the plan.
Any courses failed or withdrawn will be grayed out in the plan. Example CHEM 301 & 301L and BIOL 106
If a course has prerequisites that have not been met, the warning of "Prereqs Not Met" will be indicated on the course when added to the plan.
If a course isn’t likely to be offered in the semester for which it is planned, this will be indicated on the course once it has been added.
If a course has a variable credit option, you can adjust the number of credits planned by first clicking the class in the planned semester. The side bar will appear with information about the course, and you can click the edit button next to the credits. Select the new number of credits from the drop-down menu (Note: the default is .5 credit increments, but not all classes are available in those increments)
Students also have access to edit their own planner. Changes made are tracked and can be viewed by selecting the Change History icon. Advisors may use the changes function to track any plan modifications.
