A guide for Faculty, Advisors and Academic Staff.

Advising & Registration for Spring 2010

What’s new in SA?

• Advising Center• Advising Notes• Degree Audit• Prerequisite Checking• Online Grading

What is the Advising Center?

• Single location for all Student Academic Information

• Enhanced Advising Notes• Advising History• Variety of Reports• Each link/report opens in a new window to

easily go back and forth between student information

Advising Notes

• View orientation advising notes for new incoming students

• Enter new advising notes for students• Advising notes previously entered into

MAP will not be converted to SA

Locating the Advising Center

Finding a Student

Select a Term

When viewing student report data, select the current term.

When entering Advising Notes, select the term for which you are advising.

Advising Center

Phase 2 Release

Currently Available

Advising Profile

Advising Profile (cont.)

Advising Profile (cont.)

Advising Center

Advising Notes

Advising Notes

Advising Notes

Advising Center

Advising History

Advising History

Prerequisites

• System will automatically check for prerequisites during registration

• Students can not register for classes where they do not meet the prerequisites

• Not all departments participating for Spring 2010

• Check with your Department Chair to determine if your department is participating

Degree Audit Enhancements

•Student Degree Audits for Plans (or Majors) available November 2, 2009▫Replaces the General Education Degree Audit

report▫Includes Graduation, General Education and

Major degree requirements▫Will be used to assist with graduation

clearance

Degree Audit

Degree Audit

Degree Audit

Online Grading

• Submit grades online from any computer with internet access

• No more bubble sheets• Piloted in Summer 09• Grade Rosters generated from Class Rosters in

SA• Grade Rosters available the day after the last

day of the term• Grades available to students a few days after

being Posted by the Registrar

Can I still use Map?

• MAP is not updated with student information past Spring 09.

• Through the end of Spring 10 term:– Map will still include previously entered

Advising Notes– Map will include student data for students

who have not taken classes for the past 10 years

– Class rosters prior to Summer 09

Additional Information

• Change your Favorites in myUMBC– Remove Favorites that link to MAP– Add SA links to your myUMBC Favorites

• Turn-off pop-up blockers• Use the video tutorials and quick reference

guides • Problems/Issues with:

– Degree Audit = degreeaudit@umbc.edu – Student Academic Information = records@umbc.edu– General or Technical Problems with SA = X53838

Dates to Remember

• November 2nd – Advising Center– Full Degree Audit – Prerequisite Checking– Advance Registration for Spring 10 begins

• December (end of term)– Online Grading