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**"Degree Tracker: Personalized Academic Planning Tool"**

Degree Tracker is an advanced tool that generates personalized multi-term degree plans for students based on their academic progress. It offers user-friendly screens for both students and administrators, allowing for efficient course selection and planning. Developed at the University of Arizona and implemented at Boise State, this tool benefits students, advisors, and university administrators by streamlining academic planning and communication.

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**"Degree Tracker: Personalized Academic Planning Tool"**

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  1. Complete College AmericaGPS Policy Institute 2014 AFFORDABLE ON TRACK SCHEDULING Ashlee AndersonStudent Success Technologies

  2. What is Degree Tracker? • Bolt-on enhancement to PeopleSoft Academic Advising • Uses advanced algorithms to generate personalized multi-term degree plans, based on each student’s progress in their major(s) and minor(s) • User-friendly self-service screens • Powerful administrative screens and processes

  3. Degree Tracker Features • Easy-to-read display of student’s academic record • Timeline is set by the user • Shopping-style course selection • Drag-and-drop ability to arrange courses • Safety net for requisites and critical courses • Pulls from the catalog and academic advisement report • Account for multiple plans and overlapping requirements • What-if reporting • Enroll from Degree Tracker plan

  4. A Brief History • Developed at University of Arizona • Created by advisors for advisors • Implemented at Boise State 2013 – 2014 • Live for majority of undergraduate majors

  5. Project Implementation • Clean-up process for all curriculum • Major plans vs. catalog vs. PS Advisement Report • Scheduled offerings of courses • Include advising groups for feedback • Brings all resources into one place • Training and communication • Anticipate managing changes • Emphasize this is a planning tool

  6. Benefits for Students • Individualized degree plan based on all requirements completed, in progress, and planned • Terms and units to graduation are set by the student • More efficient communication with academic advisor(s) • Enroll from My Planner, using delivered screens • Intuitive tool with dynamic features, user-friendly navigation

  7. Benefits for Advisors • Unlimited access to electronic record of the plan • Same view for students and advisors • More efficient communication of requirements to students • Advising meetings allow for student and career development

  8. Benefits for University Administrators • Predict enrollment demand for courses • Intervention reporting • Proactive outreach to students • Identify gateway courses critical to programs • Standardized format for advising students, from orientation to graduation

  9. Ashlee Anderson, Student Success Technologies degreetracker@boisestate.edu oit.boisestate.edu/myboisestate Thank You

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