HighPoint Degree Planner allows you to:

• View your academic plan by term
• Review completed, in-progress, planned, and remaining coursework
• Track progress toward your selected academic program
• View unit totals for completed, planned, and remaining requirements
• Review past courses, including passed, failed, and repeated courses
• Add planned courses to future terms
• Add elective courses to a term
• Move, update, or remove planned courses
• Review or update maximum units by term
• Hide empty terms to simplify your plan view
• Preview your full academic plan
• Use What-If Paths to explore possible degree or program changes
• Simulate GPA for planning purposes
• Use Path Actions to manage your plan, depending on available options

Some features may only be available based on your program, advisor setup, or registration status.

To access Degree Planner, please follow the below instructions:

1. Sign in to Campus Solutions
2. Navigate to Student Center
   1. If you are only a student, Campus Solutions should default to the Student Center view. However, if you are also an employee, it may default to Employee view.
      1. If you are in Employee view, Click on the Employee text in the top left and select Student Center to change it.
3. Select the Manage Classes tile within Student Center
4. Select Degree Planner from the left-hand navigation menu
5. Choose the academic term you would like to begin planning for when prompted.

Degree Planner is intended to support academic planning. Use it alongside advising guidance, degree audit information, and registration tools.

Before using Degree Planner:

1. Confirm that the correct academic program or plan is selected.
2. Review your degree requirements in your official degree audit, if available.
3. Check whether your completed, in-progress, and transfer courses appear as expected.
4. Review any advising recommendations or required course sequencing.
5. Consider prerequisites and course availability before moving courses between terms.
6. Make sure your planned course load is realistic for each term.
7. Remember that adding a course to Degree Planner does not register you for the course.

Degree Planner can help you organize your academic path, but it does not officially change your degree, enroll you in courses, or guarantee that a planned course will be offered in a future term.

1. Select your academic program

Use the program menu at the top of Degree Planner to select the academic program you want to view.

If you have more than one program or plan, make sure the correct option is selected before reviewing progress or making changes. Degree Planner displays requirements, planned courses, and progress information based on the selected program.

2. Review your academic progress

The Progress section summarizes your current status in the selected program.

Progress may include:

• Completed units or requirements
• In-progress coursework
• Planned coursework
• Remaining units or requirements
• Any other required units for the selected program

Use this section to get a quick view of where you stand before making changes to your plan. You may also Simulate GPA to estimate how future grades may affect your GPA.
NOTE: This option is used for planning only. Simulated GPA information does not change your official academic record.

3. Review your planned terms

Degree Planner organizes planned coursework by term.

Each term may show:

• Term name
• Current term indicator
• Planned course count
• Planned unit count
• Maximum units for the term
• Requirement information
• Course subject and catalog number
• Course title
• Units
• Any other term-specific actions

Use the arrow next to a term to expand or collapse the term details. (Figure 1)

Figure 1: (reviewing your planned term(s))
[Screenshot goes here, Ryan was right - Graduate programs currently not fully setup. Will probably need to grab screenshots from an undergrad student later]

4. Add courses to a term

Use the Add a Required Course or Add An Elective Course buttons within a term to add a course to that term.

After adding a course, review the term total to confirm the course was added to the intended term.

5. Preview your Plan

Select Preview Plan to review your academic plan before using it for advising, registration planning, or further updates.

Previewing your plan can help you confirm:

• Courses are assigned to the correct terms
• Unit totals look reasonable
• Empty terms are intentional
• Planned courses align with your academic goals
• Requirements appear as expected

Screenshots go here

Previewing a plan does not guarantee that planned courses will be offered, available, or open for enrollment in a future term.

A What-If Path lets you preview how your completed, in-progress, and planned coursework may apply to a different academic program or plan.

Use a What-If Path if you are considering changing your degree, major, concentration, or academic plan and want to see how your courses may fit into the new requirements.

When to use a What-If Path

You may want to use a What-If Path when you are:

• Exploring a new major or program
• Considering adding or changing a concentration
• Comparing academic paths
• Reviewing how completed courses may apply to another plan
• Preparing for a conversation with an academic advisor

What a What-If Path can show

A What-If Path may help you review:

• Requirements for the selected program or plan
• Completed coursework that may satisfy requirements
• In-progress or planned coursework that may apply
• Remaining requirements
• Possible changes to units or course planning needs

NOTE: A What-If Path is for planning only. It does not officially change your degree, major, concentration, catalog year, or academic record.

Video Demonstration

The video below provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how to use Degree Planner.