Document for Advisers to use during student training sessions for MyPlan.

1. + Welcome
to
MyPlan
Create a
Plan
Search
for
Courses
Audit
Your
Progress
Work
with Your
Adviser
A user guide for students

2. + It’s your future– plan it the way you
want.

MyPlan is your one-stop, online academic planner.

You can plan out your next quarter, year, or entire academic career at
UW.

Use the “Find Courses” feature to search both the course catalog and
published time schedules for courses of interest.

Audit your plan to see how intended courses meet different program
and degree requirements.

Receive course recommendations from your adviser to add to your
plan at any time, and work closely with them to ensure your plan will
meet your academic goals.

3. + Step One: The Plan Page

This is your front page, where you can see the entire current academic
year at a glance.

4. + Things to do on the Plan page
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Add items directly on this page via the “add course or placeholder”
link.
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You can add a specific course (COM 201), a course range (ENGL
2xx), or general placeholders (VLPA, Study Abroad, Other).

You can assign credit values to course ranges and placeholders, and
you can also add notes to any item in your plan.
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The Plan page is also where you will receive and add adviserrecommended courses.

5. + Using Single Quarter View (SQV)
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You can choose to view
individual quarters of
your plan by choosing
the “quarter” tab on the
right-hand side of the
Plan page, or by
clicking the header of
any specific quarter.

6. + Exploring the SQV

The SQV is where you can do section-level planning for quarters that
have a published time schedule available.
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Remember that MyPlan does not register you for classes. It does,
however, enable you to prepare for registration each quarter by storing
important planning information in one easy online location.

7. + Finding courses in MyPlan

By navigating to the “Find Courses” page, you can search the course
catalog and published time schedules by curriculum, course title, or
keyword.

You can add courses to your plan directly from the search results, or
click the course title to visit that course’s details page.

8. + Finding courses in MyPlan, cont.
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Search results can
be filtered by using
several different
fields:

Quarter

General Education
Requirements

Credits

Course Level
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Course Prefix

9. + The Course Details page
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The details page for
each course shows
the full course
description,
prerequisite
information provided
by the department,
and scheduled and
projected quarter
information provided
by the department.

You can also find
section information
for scheduled
courses on this
page, and easily
add those sections
to your plan.

10. + Bookmarking a course

If you find a course of interest but don’t want to add it to your plan just
yet, you can choose to bookmark it for later.

11. + Running audits

The audit page enables you to run two different kinds of audits– the
familiar DARS audit (which looks only at completed and registered
courses for degree progress), and the Plan Audit (which looks at
completed, registered, and future planned courses).

A Plan Audit is not an official progress report, but is a great tool to get
an idea of how planned courses might impact progress toward your
intended degree.

Plan Audits are a great tool for working with your adviser to ensure
that your plan keeps you on track for graduation.

12. + Running a Degree Audit
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The DARS report,
or degree audit,
shows academic
progress toward
completion of an
undergraduate
degree in a
student's declared
or proposed major.
The progress is
measured by how
UW courses,
transfer courses,
and courses in
progress apply
toward degree
requirements.

13. + Running a Plan Audit

Navigate to the Audit page in MyPlan. Choose an intended degree
program from the dropdown menu, and click on the “Audit Your Plan”
button.
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TIP: To run a Plan Audit, you must have at least one course in a future
quarter in your plan. Plan Audits are not yet able to recognize courses
ranges (ex. CHEM 1xx) or general placeholders (ex. VLPA, NW,
Other).

14. + The Hand-Off Screen (HOS)

Depending on what courses you have in your plan, this screen
appears in order to gather some more information. You may be asked
to choose whether you want a writing section, or select a credit
amount for variable credit courses.
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The HOS will also alert you if particular planned courses are not
included in the audit, and why. Most often, this will occur when a
course you have planned for an upcoming quarter does not appear in
the published time schedule.
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If you do not see the HOS, then MyPlan has all of the information it
needs in order to run your Plan Audit.

15. + The HOS, continued…

16. + The Plan Audit report

Once your Plan Audit is complete, you can view the different sections
to see how your planned courses may meet your degree
requirements.

17. + Working with your adviser
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MyPlan is an excellent tool to
help you make the most out of
sessions with your adviser.

Send an email to your adviser
to let them know you’ve
started a plan. Advisers can
then view your plan,
recommend courses to help
you progress towards degree
completion, and leave you
notes and messages.

You can also print a copy of
your plan to bring to your
advising appointments.

18. + Start planning today!
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To get started with MyPlan, visit myplan.uw.edu and log in with your
NetID. You can also access MyPlan through your quick links on
MyUW.