Create Planning Guides

What is Create Planning Guide?

The Create Planning Guide area allows you to run a planning guide for the school of your choice.  Planning guides show you how the courses you entered into the My Courses area transfer and apply toward a program. 

How do I use Create Planning Guide?

1. Select the State
   • Select the state of the school you want to run a planning guide for.  Note that only states with CAS participating schools will display in the list.
2. Select a School
   • Select the school that you want to run a planning guide for.  Note that only CAS participating schools are listed.
3. Select your Program of Interest(required)
   • A tree-view "drill-down" of colleges, departments, and programs will display.  Schools may choose to present this information differently.
   • If there is a "plus" sign next to the category, there are further categories beneath it.  A "minus" sign indicates that the category is open.  You can open and close categories by clicking on the category name.  If there is no plus or minus sign, this indicates that you are at the program level.
4. Select an Academic Year
5. Choose a method
   • Regular Planning Guide
     • Regular Planning Guides show you how the courses you entered in My Courses transfer and apply toward the selected program.
   • Planning Guide with Equivalencies (Not available for all schools)
     • Planning Guides with Equivalencies show you how the courses you entered in the My Courses area transfer and apply toward the selected program. In addition, it shows you other equivalencies from a school you specify to the school you ran a planning guide for.  In the past, this type of planning guide was known as a "Cross-Reference Planning Guide".
6. Click Next
7. Answer Questions
   • Some schools ask questions to provide additional information for the planning guide.
8. Click Next
9. Click Submit
   • Review the information to be sent for the planning guide, if correct click Submit.
10. View the planning guide
    • Created planning guides can be viewed on the View Planning Guide page.  It often takes several minutes for planning guides to return to CAS.
      
      

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