Academic Alerts

Mary Connor

Advising allows faculty members to leverage their front-line knowledge and expertise to communicate students’ needs to advisors. Faculty Alerts strengthen students’ safety nets by providing advisors with a window into …

Helping Students Schedule

Mary Connor

To help your advising students get through scheduling quickly and successfully, you can intervene on behalf of a student or a group.  Get access — Contact your team lead or …

Scheduling Overview

Mary Connor

Civitas Learning’s Scheduling allows students to explore, narrow, and save the perfect class schedule for them out of all the possible combinations. By delivering a first-in-class registration experience, Scheduling reduces …

Planning Glossary

Mary Connor

Following are definitions of the terms used with Academic Planning.  Academic goal  A degree, diploma, certificate, or similar credential of significance that is offered by the institution. It is typically …

Plan Templates

Mary Connor

Students need the structure of prebuilt degree sequences (templates) to follow in creating their own plans. Templates formalize your institution-specific guidance on which courses to take and in what order, …

Plan Advising

Mary Connor

By working on plans directly with your students, you can offer timely guidance and prevent scheduling mistakes that cost them time and money. As an advisor, you can see academic …

Advising Reports

Mary Connor

You can access reports from the Report panel on the Dashboard or the Reports (bar-graph icon) on the left menu: There are four standard report types in Advising: Students, Appointments, …

Advisor Directory

Mary Connor

The Directory gives you two tabs:  All Advisors and Faculty lets you browse the names, photos, and contact information that each user chose to provide (in Settings).  “Faculty” means those …

Library

Mary Connor

This video provides an overview of the Library functionality in Advising, shown primarily through a user with the Manage Resource Library permission. ▶ Video: Advising’s Library The Library (folder 📁 …