Create Academic Plan for Students

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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 career.

 

Create Academic Plan

  1. Click the Global Navigation Menu button in the top-left corner of your screen. 

    User is on the Workday Homepage and clicks the Global Navigation menu button.
     
  2. The Global Navigation Menu will display with a list of your applications and dashboards. Click the Academics Hub.

    The Global Navigation menu displays. User selects the Academics Hub application.
     
  3. Click Planning and Registration and then select My Academic Plan.

    The Academics Hub opens to the Academic Overview screen. User clicks the Planning and Registration tab on the Academics navigation pane and then selects My Academic Plan.
     
  4. Click Update Plan.

    Note: Students can also view academic plan, create academic plan, edit academic plan, create alternate academic plan, and change primary academic plan on the Plan sub-tab of the Academics tab on their student profile.

    The View My Academic Plan screen displays. User clicks Update Plan button.
     
  5. Your Primary Plan Name, Program(s) of Study, and Remaining Academic Requirements will auto-fill based on your academic record and program(s) of study.
  6. If desired, update the Primary Plan Name.

    User's Primary Plan Name, Program(s) of Study, and Remaining Academic Requirements auto-fill in the Academic Plan template.
     
  7. Build out the plan with Academic Requirements and/or Courses you intend to take for current and/or future Academic Years. Click the Add Year (+) button to add the current academic year. To add additional Academic Years, click the Add Year (+) button again. 

    The Add Year, or plus, button is highlighted. User clicks the Add Year button to add the current academic year.
     
  8. If an Academic Year needs to be removed from the plan, click Remove Year (x). All prior Academic Years can be removed as plans do not need to be made for the past.
  9. To add additional Academic Periods, click the Add Period button. 
  10. To remove academic periods from the plan, click Remove Period. 
  11. Click the Add Row button (+) to add a row to the plan.

    The Remove Year, or x, button is highlighted. The Add Period and Remove Period buttons are highlighted. User clicks the Add Row, or plus, button to add a row under 2024 Fall Semester.
     
  12. Select an Academic Requirement to work toward during the Academic Period by using the drop-down list or by dragging and dropping from the list on the left-hand side of the page.

    Note: To remove a row from the plan, click the Remove Row button (-).

    User enters and selects Hist Major: Pre Modern History in the Academic Requirement field.

    User clicks on and grabs onto Hist Major: Pre Modern History in the Remaining Academic Requirements section.

    User drags Hist Major: Pre Modern History into the 2024 Fall Semester section of the Academic Plan.
     
  13. Select the Course to take associated with the Academic Requirement. All courses that could fulfill the Academic Requirement will appear in the drop-down list.

    Note: The Units column indicates the number of credits assigned to the course. The Status column indicates if you are eligible to enroll in the course, are currently enrolled in the course, have already taken and passed the course, or are not eligible to enroll. Once the Academic Plan is saved, the most up to date eligibility will populate the Status column. 

    User selects Hist 2048 in the Course field for the Hist Major: Pre-Modern History Academic Requirement.
     
  14. Repeat this process until the Academic Plan is complete. 
  15. Click OK

    User adds two more rows to the 2024 Fall Semester and fills in two additional Academic Requirements and Courses to fulfill them.

    User adds four rows to the 2025 Spring Semester and fills in four Academic Requirements and four Courses to fulfill them. User then clicks OK button.
     
  16. Upon saving, the header of the Academic Plan will update. Click the hyperlinked numbers to view the Accounted for Academic Requirements and Unaccounted for Academic Requirements.

    User's updated Academic Plan displays. User can click the Accounted for Academic Requirements and/or Unaccounted for Academic Requirements fields to view more information.

 

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