Degree Planner
Degree Planner is an interactive academic planning tool that students and advisors
use to map out courses and degree requirements. It displays degree requirements, student
course records, prerequisites, and course offerings. Students can view plans that
advisors created for them, and they can also create plans for themselves. Degree plans
will update as a student completes degree requirements and plans can be revised as
needed. Degree Planner is available 24/7 and students are encouraged to refer back
to their degree plan as they register for courses each quarter.
Key Features of Degree Planner
Customizable Academic Plans
Students can see requirements for their academic program of choice and confirm they’re on track to graduate when expected. They can create their own career and degree plans and submit them to advisors for review and approval.
Drag-and-drop Interface
Drag-and-drop functionality makes it easy to adjust schedules, understand dependencies, and plan course loads.
Scenario Modeling
Students can create multiple academic plans to see what dependencies and requirements look like across degree programs.
How to Access Degree Planner
Degree Planner is part of the Legend software suite. To access Degree Planner, log into Legend.
- Click on the hamburger icon in the upper left corner and
- Choose Degree Planner from the dropdown menu.
Degree Planner How-Tos
- Log into Legend
- Click the hamburger icon in the upper left corner.
- Choose Degree Planner from the dropdown menu.
- Click on the degree plan.
- The plan will display.
- Log into Legend
- Search for a student or select a student from your Student list
- Select Degree Planner from the left navigation
- Click the Get Started button
- Choose the Catalog Year. Search for the program/degree.
- Click Advanced Settings to customize the academic plan.
- Choose the desired options and click Build Plan.
- The academic plan will display.
If there is already a plan built, you can rebuild it:
To See a Student Records of courses taken, in-progress, transferred:
This is what you will see in Student Records. If you click on the course, you can see more details – Completed, In-Progress, Grade, etc.:
You can also see Placement Test results. Degree Planner uses these (imported from SMS) to determine if a student met the prerequisite placement scores for a course and to place them in the appropriate Math or English course.
Warning of Courses that did not build:
You can click on ”+Add Course” and see why the course did not build. It can be manually added to the plan even though all prerequisites are not met.
This is what you will see when you click on “+ Add Course”. The message will give information on why Degree Planner did not build it. By clicking on “+” you can add it to the plan.
These courses can also be built under the Requirements tab.
Courses Tab: Courses with dotted line border:
These are placeholders and are requirements such as general education requirements or a choice of several course. Click on the box to choose which course you want to meet that requirement.
To see course details such as which quarters a course is offered:
Click on the course and choose the Term dropdown box. Degree Planner has a predictive feature which predicts when a course will be offered in the future based on when it was offered in the past.
To test a part-time student or other schedule preferences:
When building a plan or rebuilding a plan, select Advanced Settings:
You will then get options on whether to take Summer classes, number of credits, time of day, etc.
To add a course not in the plan or catalog for the degree:
Under the Courses tab, click “+Add Course”.
About Starfish
Legend and Degree Planner are powered by Starfish Retention Solutions®