Whether you want to earn a degree, improve your skills, get certified, train for a new career, or explore a new hobby, you can choose from many programs and courses.
Explore your interests and find a program that puts you on the path to a bright future. Tri-C offers both credit and non-credit courses as well as certificate programs in most career fields.
More than 1,000 credit courses are offered each semester in more than 200 career and technical programs. Tri-C also grants short-term certificates, certificates of proficiency and post-degree professional certificates.
Tri-C's Workforce Training provides both non-credit and credit training for individuals and businesses to assist individuals with skills leading to employment. Tri-C's Corporate College provides professional development and corporate training opportunities.
Tri-C offers a variety of affordable and convenient community programs for both adults and youth. These programs are designed to promote individual development.
If a program has a requirement, we assume the courses needed to satisfy that requirement will be available in future terms.
In future terms, we only recommend courses, not sections.
We account for course rotations using advising guidelines.
The best way to identify the correct student is to look at the major/catalog year. The goal is for the customer to manage the catalog and students with multiple S-Numbers in their database system.
Banner — DegreeWorks, Colleague — Degree Audit
Yes, institutions can set a maximum number of credits per term for planning and a separate maximum that students can register/plan for without needing counselor permission.
No.
Yes, institutions can set different minimum and maximum credit limits for different terms.
Yes, institutions can work with a business analyst to develop rules for elective course selection.
Yes. As long as the linked section info is in the data, Tri-C Grad Plan will recommend the sections according to their pairing.
Course in Progress, Brand New Student, Full-Time Student, Summer-Enrolled Student, etc.
No, the GPA is calculated from the Banner/DegreeWorks system.
Yes. Scroll to the right to the "Goals" column and select the "Reset to Declared Plan" link. This will allow you to reset the plan back to the original declared plan, and it gives you an option to save the work that you did. A user can also select the "Undo" button to undo changes made.
No, Tri-C Grad Plan will show the last person (student or counselor) who made changes to the plan.
If you want to retrieve a plan, you must save it.
Yes, and you can also delete plans that you no longer need from the dashboard.
You can click on the course itself in the course schedule screen, OR you can click on the CRN inside the parentheses where all the courses are stacked together to the left of the course schedule screen.
You can click on the course where all the courses are stacked together to the left of the course schedule screen. This will also give you the course description and available sections.
This is because the first option lists the name of the course, and the line below it lists the name of the requirement. It is possible for a course to be named "United States History II" but also have a requirement named "United States History II."
This identifies the critical path for a student based on their major/plan in question. The critical path is essentially the longest chain of prerequisites for a specific program. This line could be different for two different students, depending on the coursework they have completed.
"Minimizing Changes" means accepting the parameters set. The plan will adjust based on these parameters.
Example: A student has blocked certain times on their schedule, but these blocked times interfere with the only time that a prerequisite this student needs is offered.
"Minimizing Time to Degree" means to ignore the parameters set and just show the least amount of time it will take for the student to graduate.
The stars allow a student or a counselor to pin a preference. If a counselor or student is making changes to other things, when the planner validates, it will keep the stars and try to work around them.
No, it does not. A counselor or student would need to save the plan first and then place notes in the description field.
An "Official Plan" that can only be saved by a counselor and typically reflects the student's declared major or academic path. A "Primary Plan" can be selected by either the counselor or the student and is intended to be the top plan of choice for the student to review, even if it doesn't align with their official major.
There is no way to search for this from the dashboard.
Students can have multiple "Official Plans," such as one for each semester. Institutions typically define their own business processes around how these are used.
Yes, only counselors can mark a plan as "Official."
If a student edits an "Official Plan," it becomes a new, non-official plan. The student can then choose to save it as their own plan, if permitted.
Students can have multiple "Primary Plans," such as one for each semester. Institutions can establish guidelines to help students understand how to use them effectively.
Both students and counselors can mark a plan as "Primary."
No, all plans are available during registration and will update dynamically. It's up to the student and counselor to decide which plan to use for registration.
Students can register using any of their plans.
No counselor approval is required.
There are no automatic notifications, but the dashboard will display when a plan has been changed and by whom.
Yes. Tri-C Grad Plan can provide tailored recommendations to support students in improving their academic standing.
Yes, DegreeWorks exceptions are displayed on the "Progress" tab within Tri-C Grad Plan.
