Change Academic Plan to Primary for Advisors

Overview of Process

Academic Plans in Workday are an optional but helpful tool to assist students in planning out their path toward completion of their program(s) of study. We recognize that the Bowdoin course offerings change regularly, so these plans should only be used as guidelines on how a student’s Bowdoin career may unfold; they should notbe seen as a final commitment, nor should they deter a student from exploring the curriculum.

Academic plans allow students to model different paths to graduation and assess course eligibility and availability across future academic periods. Students can also use their academic plan(s) to create saved schedules for registration. Academic Plans can be created and edited at any time by the student or the student’s advisor. Students can have multiple Academic Plans, however one plan must be primary. Students and Advisors can change an alternate plan to their primary academic plan as needed. At Bowdoin, we do not see a primary plan as “more important” than the other plans – these are all essentially workbooks to help students think through their options as they move through their degree.

Change Primary Academic Plan

1. Type student: followed by the student’s name into the Workday Global Search Bar and click Enter on your keyboard.  
   
   

   Note: The BOW STU Find Academic Records report can also be used to search for a student and navigate to their student profile. 

2. Select the Student’s Name to view their profile.
   
   
   
   Note: In order to see and select Student results, make sure to type student: before the student’s name or have Student as a saved category. If you do not, you may pull student and employee profiles for your search. To learn more about finding students in Workday or to set up Student as a saved category, refer to the Finding Students and Student Profile Overview.
    
3. Click the Academics tab.
   
   
    
4. Click the Plan sub-tab.
5. Click Request Change Primary Plan.
   
   
    
6. Select a New Primary Plan and click Submit.
   
   

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