How to Use the Automated Course Planning System

Go to www.econ.gatech.edu

Click on the Advising tab

Click on Forms

Choose your degreeStudents pursuing the International Plan should use the Custom Option with their IP Advisor in the SOE

Options for course planningCustom Course Plan

Allows students to choose individual coursesBest for students with a specific goal in mindCan be used to customize a menu based course

planMenu Based Course Plan

Allows students to choose categories that populate electives

Best for students with a general goal in mind

Custom Course PlanThe Course Planning Sheet opens to the Customizable Credit Sheet page

Start in the top left and work your way right and then down

Click on a cell with a black border and shaded interior

You will see a small box with an arrow appear to the right of the cell you have chosen

And the name in the cell will appear in the text box

Click on the square with the arrow to the right of the cell you chose

A drop down menu of choices for that elective will appear

Highlight the class you want to enter into your course plan and click on it

That course will populate the cell you chose and the text box

These boxes are interactive from top to bottom. If you choose Survey of Calculus, it removes Calculus II from your Math 2 choices

Continue this process, going down each group, before moving to the right to the next group, and completing each row of groups before moving down to the next row of groups

Once you have completed all the course selections, click on the Working Plan tab at the bottom of the screen

Before you made your changes, the working plan looked like this, with the Custom Course Plan categories in the cells

Now it looks like this, with all your choices inserted into the cellsNote that the custom plan does not affect the course hours calculation

Menu Based Course PlanClick on the tab labeled Working Plan

This worksheet opens up

You only have to make choices in the black bordered shaded cells at the top of the page

The EIA ExceptionDue to the variety of classes that satisfy the

EIA language requirement, any attempt to integrate those classes into the Menu system would have resulted in a cumbersome mess

Therefore, EIA students using the Menu Based Course Plan must enter the courses used to satisfy their Language Requirement in the Customizable Credit Sheet worksheet

Now, click on the Customizable Credit Sheet

Complete just the Language Classes as if you were performing an Custom Course Plan

Now, click on the Working Plan tab

Notice that the Language Electives are the ones you chose in the Customizable Credit Sheet

These cells operate just like the ones in the Customizable Course Plan sheet

Having selected a primary focus of Industrial Organization, secondary focus of Advanced Industrial Organization, a minor in Math-Stats, and a certificate in Accounting, this student has a complete plan

If you click on the tab for the Full Plan worksheet, you can see a printable version of your entire course plan without blanks

While you may need to adjust the font size for classes with larger names, you now have an overall plan ready for printing

You can modify a Menu Based Plan by using the Custom Options in the drop down menus in the Working Plan

Find the class you want to changeSuppose that you want to change the Special Topics course to Economic and Financial Modeling

Then click the Menu box that determines the class for the cell occupied by the class you want to change

Set that menu to Custom – it is always the last choice

Determine the which cells reverted to the Customizable Course Plan settings

Click on the Customizable Credit Sheet tab

Identify the electives that you need to modify

In this case, start by setting Econ Elective 2 to ECON 4360 Network Economics, which you did not want to change

Then set Econ Elective 3 to ECON 3150 Econ & Finance Modeling to make the change you want to see

Then click on the Working Plan tab

You can see that the changes you want have appeared on the Working Plan worksheet

The power of the Working SheetMake sure that you whatever changes you

want to make appear on the Working Sheet as it is the foundation of all other sheetsFull PlanRemaining ClassesCore Area Check Sheet

Next, click on the Full Plan tab

Notice that the Full Plan worksheet reflects the change you made in the Working Plan worksheet

Now, click the Remaining Classes tab

Notice that it is currently identical to the Full Plan worksheetThis will change as you tell the Excel program that you have competed classes

Now, click the Class Status tab

Here you will find every class in the catalog listed by course identifier and name with a black bordered shaded cell next to it

The power of the Course Status worksheetThe Course Status worksheet keeps track of

the classes you have completed (or at least believe you will complete) successfully and modifies other important pagesRemaining CoursesCore Area Check Sheet

Suppose that you are taking ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics and are making an A at the midtermJust scroll to the right until you find the Economics Section

Then click the black bordered shaded box to the right of ECON 2106 Prin of Microeconomics

Just as before, a small box with a down arrow will appear

Click the square then select Completed

You will notice the box turns green and says Completed

Now click on the Full Plan tab

You will notice that nothing changedThis page remains static as long as you do not change the Working Plan worksheet

Now click the Remaining Classes tab

Notice that the box that did contain ECON 2106 Prin of Micoreconomics is no longer visible

Now, click on the Class Status worksheet

Once in the Class Status worksheet, change the status of the following classes to CompletedMath 1501: Calculus IMath 1502: Calculus IIEAS 1600: Intro-Environmental SciENGL 1101: English Composition IPUBP 3000: US Constitutional IssuesMGT 2250: Management Statistics

Click on the Remaining Classes tab

Notice that all the classes whose status you changed to Completed are no longer visible

What classes should you take next semester?You can use the Remaining Classes

illustration to determine what classes to take the next semester

All it requires is a blank piece of paper

Start by looking at the Remaining Classes illustration

Place the piece of paper over the illustration

Now slide the paper downwards

Continue to slide the piece of paper downward until it no longer covers at least the number of classes you want to take

Highest classes have priority

If possible, this student should take HPS 1040: Health first

Then, they should try and take EAS 1601: Habitable Planet, ENGL 1102: English Composition II, and CS 1315 Intro to Media Computation

Finally, they should round out their schedule with ECON 2105: Prin of Macroeconomics, ECON 3110: Adv Microeconomics, MATH 2401: Calculus III, and MGT 2200: Information Technology

Now, click on the Core Area Check Sheet tab

Notice that all the classes that you changed the status to completed are listed on this sheet

The Core Area Check Sheet places the classes you have completed into the Core Areas as defined by the Board of Regents and Georgia Tech

The Core Area Check Sheet also keeps track of the credit hours that contribute to your degree according to your course plan

You will turn in a print out of this worksheet to your advisor with your CAPP report and completed Petition to Graduate before the departmental deadline when you are preparing to graduate (Oct 1 for Spring and Mar 1 for Fall and Summer)

Questions?