Degree Works
Degree Works is an academic advising and degree audit tool that helps assist advisors and students track their degree progress in real-time.
For students, Degree Works:
- Provides real-time advice and counsel
- Speeds time to graduation
- Provides intuitive web access to self-service capabilities
- Streamlines the graduation process
- Allows direct access to multiple related services and advice through hyperlinks to catalog information, class schedules, transcripts, help desk services, and FAQs
For advisors, Degree Works:
- Supports real-time delivery of academic advice through intuitive web interfaces
- Minimizes errors through consistent degree plans
- Supports more timely degree certification
- Reduces paperwork and manual program check sheets
- Supports and monitors unique program changes
Additional Features:
- "What-If" analysis - Thinking of changing your Major or concentration? Try a "What-If" analysis to help you decide
- Advisor notes - enables advisors to quickly and easily place notes for the student and the advice given
- Look ahead - dynamically shows how degree progress is affected by future planned courses (coming soon...)
- GPA calculator - See how final grades may affect the overall GPA
Still Need Courses- Hyperlinks that tells info about the course, proficiency intensives, etc.
Support: registrar@una.edu
Video Tutorial:
• • • See below for frequently asked questions! • • •
Frequently Asked Questions
Students
Students who are following either the 2014 or later Undergraduate Catalog may use Degree Works. If students attended UNA prior to summer 1995, the audit will not be accurate due to prior academic history not being available in the Banner student system.
Advisors
Advisors who are currently advising students.
Students
Degree Works can be accessed through Portal (Self-Service Banner) from the Student Information tab (Student > Student Records). The Degree Works link is located at the bottom under the Student Records link. To access Degree Works, click the "Degree Works" link, then click the "Degree Works" button, this will load Degree Works web page.
Advisors
Degree Works can be accessed through Self-Service Banner (SSB) from the Degree Works link under the Faculty Services tab (Faculty Services > Student Information Menu).
It can also be accessed from the student profile pages.
These are the most common problems:
- The student’s major is wrong on the audit. The Degree Works audit displays the student’s current major in the Banner system. A change of major form must be submitted to the University Registrar Office with all signatures before a major will be changed. When a major is changed, the change will be effective for a particular term which may be a future term.
- The requirements for the declared major or concentration are wrong. The student and/or advisor should check the catalog term that appears on the major requirement block of the audit. According to the Banner student system, this is the catalog that you are using to complete your major requirements.
- Classes are not applying to the correct requirement. Degree Works uses a "best fit" approach for meeting requirements. If there is a question on how a course counts, students should contact their academic advisor. If the advisor has a question, he/she should contact the Registrar's Office.
- The department chair approved to substitute a course and it is not displaying. The substitution form is initiated in the student’s major department but the forms are entered by the Registrar's Office staff. After a substitution form is entered into the Degree Works system, the process new menu item must be selected to display the change.
Click the What-If link on the left side navigation, then follow these five steps to generate a "What-If" analysis:
- Select Academic Year
- Select Program
- Select Major
- Select Concentration (If Applicable)
- Select any additional information as necessary for majors and minors
- Press Process What-If Button
Your advisor can leave notes, which might include your class recommendations and semester PIN number, for you to review later.
You can find these notes at the bottom of your main page audit.
Important Info
Degree Works does not replace the requirement to meet with your advisor.