The Degree Works Audit Responsive Dashboard is a new, modern interface that houses the familiar information of the Degree Works Audit tool. Degree Works Audit continues to be Northwestern's tool for tracking and planning student progress on degree requirements, to be used collaboratively by students, advisors, and other staff.
Student Audit
The three large boxes at the top of the page contain your ID number, name, and degree. If you have more than one degree, the degree box will be a dropdown menu, from which you can select the degree you wish to see. Keep in mind that this only applies to multiple degrees, not to multiple majors. Multiple majors will appear on the same audit.
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The degree progress percentage indicator displays the percentage of requirements that are complete. This is calculated based on the percentage of requirements (not credits) that you have completed. The progress percentage must be at 98% for you to have all remaining requirements in progress, and it must be at 100% for you to be finished with all requirements.
Your overall GPA.
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Degree Requirements
The main section of the degree audit lists the degree requirements. The requirements are organized in blocks, each of which contains a coherent set of requirements. For most bachelor's degree programs, you will see the following blocks:
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In the body of each block, you will see the requirements listed in the left column. Requirements will usually be complete (checkmark), incomplete (empty red circle), or in progress (half-moon shape). The right column contains additional information about the requirement, such as courses that can be used to fulfill a requirement, courses already applied to a requirement, or additional notes about the requirement.
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What-If
Degree Works Audit allows you to run a one-time audit based on a hypothetical new curriculum. For example, you could see what the audit would look like if a second major or minor was added. You could also see what the audit would look like if you changed majors.
The "What If" link is just underneath the Student Header. The menu that appears prompts you to enter a catalog year and a program. After you enter the program, the rest of the information should populate automatically. If you wish to see a hypothetical audit with a second major or minor, you must first enter your current program information (in this case, do NOT check the box for current curriculum), and then underneath, enter the additional major or minor in the "additional areas of study" section.
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Mobile-Friendly
The Responsive Dashboard is mobile-friendly. If you wish, you may view your degree audit on your mobile device. The same information is available, but it condensed for a mobile device's screen.
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Academic Plans
Degree Works Audit gives you the ability to plan future coursework and see how that future coursework will fulfill specific requirements on the audit. Degree Works Audit refers to this tool as Academic Plans, but it is also known simply as "Plans." You can access your plans by clicking the "Plans" link at the very top of the Degree Works Audit interface.
After you navigate to this link, you will see a list of plans that have been created. There may be no plans or there may be several. However, if you have any plans, there should only be one plan that is designated as both "Active" and "Locked." This is considered your "official" academic plan.
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Underneath the student header information, you will see the main plan information. Notice that you can click "Add term" at the top to add another term to your plan. You can also click the three dots to the right of a given term to view a menu that includes the option to remove that term from the plan.
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Adding Courses Using the Sidebar
The left-hand column of the academic plan is a sidebar with three different ways to add elements to a plan.
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Courses on a plan do not contain information about specific Banner sections, so it is not possible to enter a section number or "CRN" for a course in a plan. This makes sense because in most cases a course will be planned before the class schedule has been published. However, Degree Works Audit has a separate ability to identify when each course is planned to be offered, and UNW maintains this information for all courses. If you attempt to add a course to a term in which it is not planned to be offered, you will see an error message.
Even though planned courses do not contain section information, Degree Works Audit plans are pulled into Banner Registration.
Viewing the Plan and Adding Notes
To the right of the sidebar, there is a space for academic terms. Each term is represented by a column, with the later terms farther to the right. Underneath the name of each term, you can add requirements, which are listed vertically. The example below has both course requirements (with a blue line on top) and choice requirements (with an orange line on top).
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Notes can also be added to plans. Notes are simply text information that is important in relation to some aspect of the plan. Notes can be added to an entire plan, a term, or an individual requirement. Notes are identified by a "sticky note" icon. Clicking on the icon allows you to see any notes that have been entered and to add new notes.
Academic Plan Audit View
If you would like to verify that all requirements are represented in the plan, or see where planned requirements will go on the audit, you can click the "Audit" link just above the main plan information. This link will pull up a new window with your audit, including all planned courses. The audit below shows completed courses (with final grades), in-progress courses (with "IP" grades), and planned courses (with the word "PLAN" in place of the grade).
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Academic Plans and Banner Registration
Plans that are created in Degree Works Audit are pulled into the Banner Registration interface. One of the tabs at the top of that interface is "Plans." You can select a plan from Degree WorksAudit. When you select a plan, Banner Registration will search the existing sections for that term to find all sections of the planned courses. You can then simply select the preferred section of each course and add it to your registration.