{"65386":{"#nid":"65386","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Undergraduate Degree Audits Get Facelift with DegreeWorks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERegardless of why you decided to\ncome to Tech, the ultimate endpoint is to earn a degree from the Institute.\nNow, the Office of the Registrar has made it easier for students to track their\nprogress toward that goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute began replacing its previous degree audit system, CAPP, in 2010; as of December, DegreeWorks has taken CAPP\u0027s place and is accessible to all undergraduate students\nat \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/degreeworks.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edegreeworks.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. The\nonline system enables students to see which degree requirements have been\nfulfilled, which are in progress and which are incomplete. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve found it to be very helpful\nfor deciding what classes to take and which ones would fill which degree\nrequirements,\u201d said Sarah Burdette, a third-year biology major who transferred\nto the Institute last fall. \u201cIt was really nice to be able to look and see in\nwhich areas all my transfer credits went.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe system also aids communication\nbetween advisors and students by allowing advisors to leave notes regarding any\nacademic concerns. Advisors also have the capability of correcting or\noverriding automation in the system on a case-by-case basis. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDegreeWorks provides students and\nadvisors one reliable, accurate place to review degree requirements and\nprogress,\u201d said Robert Simon, assistant registrar for academic services. While\npreviously students may have had a difficult time keeping track of this\ninformation, DegreeWorks makes it available online at any time. Simon also\nnoted the system\u2019s vast visual improvement over its predecessor, with\ncolor-coding and a more intuitive interface.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAn additional aspect is the\ncapability of seeing how an academic timeline would change as a result of\nchanging majors through a \u201cWhat if?\u201d feature. Students can see which courses\nwould carry over to meet a new major\u2019s requirements, assessing how it may\naffect their academic timeline. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really liked how it showed me\nwhich classes would count, what would have to get made up and how long it would\ntake to graduate if I changed majors,\u201d Burdette said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis program doesn\u2019t replace\nmeetings with advisors, but it\u2019s a tool students and advisors can use to make\nsure everything is clear, accurate and consolidated in one place,\u201d Simon said.\n\u201cIt will strengthen student-advisor relationships since they\u2019ll be seeing the\nsame information. If you leave a meeting and can\u2019t remember which course your\nadvisor mentioned while you were talking, they can record it in a note and it\nwill stay there for your reference.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDegreeWorks feeds information from\nBanner and Oscar, so students must register for classes and declare majors and\nminors for that information to be reflected in DegreeWorks. The \u201cWhat if?\u201d\nfeature does not reflect minors at this time but is being considered for the\nfuture, as is access for Master\u2019s and Doctoral candidates. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnything altered in Banner or\nOscar will be reflected in DegreeWorks after it refreshes each night; it\u2019s\nmanufactured by the same parent company as Banner, making for a relatively\nseamless integration. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of the Registrar will\nupdate the system each year as catalogs and degree requirements change, and encourages\nstudents to provide feedback to their advisors as they explore and use the\nprogram. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBeginning this summer, graduating\nstudents will need to include a printout of their progress from DegreeWorks\nwith their application for graduation. Check your progress at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/degreeworks.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edegreeworks.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute has replaced its CAPP\ndegree audit system with DegreeWorks, accessible to all undergraduate students\nat \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/degreeworks.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edegreeworks.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute has replaced its CAPP degree audit system with DegreeWorks, accessible to all undergraduate students at degreeworks.gatech.edu."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-04-05 16:50:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:30","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65387":{"id":"65387","type":"image","title":"DegreeWorks screencap 1","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894577","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:57","alt":"DegreeWorks screencap 1","file":{"fid":"193211","name":"Screen_shot_2011-04-05_at_4.50.23_PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen_shot_2011-04-05_at_4.50.23_PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen_shot_2011-04-05_at_4.50.23_PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":62287,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen_shot_2011-04-05_at_4.50.23_PM.png?itok=3QQY8jos"}}},"media_ids":["65387"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtaan.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Academic Advising Network"},{"url":"http:\/\/degreeworks.gatech.edu\/","title":"DegreeWorks"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10081","name":"advisors"},{"id":"12674","name":"degreeworks"},{"id":"1071","name":"Undergraduates"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:robert.simon@registrar.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERobert Simon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of the Registrar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}