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.
Tri-C Grad Plan helps you stay on track and complete on time. It will help you plan, register and collaborate with your academic counselor at Tri-C. Tri-C Grad Plan works best when paired with consistent academic counseling.
Visit these Student How-To Videos to learn how to register using Smart Plan.
Key Features:
Visualize your path to completion term by term.
See your estimated completion date and understand how any changes to your plan may affect your completion timeline and total cost in real time.
Develop a schedule that accommodates your personal preferences and circumstances.
Plan, schedule, register and pay for courses all in one place.
Most students can register for classes using Tri-C Grad Plan. Contact Academic Counseling with questions.
Some student types have alternate enrollment methods, including the following:
College Credit Plus Visit tri-c.edu/ccpstudent for more information/steps to enroll
Log in to my Tri-C space and search for the "Registration Dashboard."
Anyone who has been admitted to Tri-C and has an active student record can access Tri-C Grad Plan. If you can access DegreeWorks, you can access Tri-C Grad Plan.
From your dashboard, select "Open My Plan." If you have recently updated your major or program, you may see an option to "Build a Declared Plan." Select this option to make sure your plan reflects your current major or program.
Optimize Your Plan: Your plan will likely show a "Please Optimize" status. Select the "Optimize" button to refresh your plan and make sure it is up to date with any placement test scores, prerequisite overrides, newly completed coursework or other updates on your record.
Set Target Credits: Set the number of credit hours you plan to take each term (12 or more credit hours is considered full-time status).
Update Campus Preference: Select "Campuses" below the calendar if you want to only take classes at certain campuses. To include online classes and see the widest availability, leave the campus option unselected.
Block Time: Block days and times on the calendar view so the planner will only recommend classes that fit your schedule.
After making the updates, select "Optimize" again, and your recommended classes will update per your preferences.
The requirements come from the program sequence of requirements reflected in your DegreeWorks degree audit.
When changes or updates are made to your plan, Tri-C Grad Plan will need to review them against your current academic records and major or program requirements. To verify your changes are acceptable for completion, click the blue "Optimize" button. Tri-C Grad Plan will give you a message saying if your plan has been approved, if any changes are required for completion, or recommendations to shorten your time to a degree or reduce costs.
Please note: If you attempt to register with a plan that is not optimized, you will be prompted to optimize it before registering for classes. You can choose "Ignore and Continue Registration" if you do not want to make the recommended changes.
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. You can also select the "Undo" button to undo changes made.
This identifies the critical path for you as the student based on your major or plan. 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.
Yes! You can create a plan, customize your schedule and register for classes within Tri-C Grad Plan. When registration is open, look for the blue "Register" button beneath your class list.
To register, select the "Change" button next to each class you want to register for and select "Mark to Register." Then, click the blue "Register" button.
Please note:You must confirm your physical address each term prior to registration. To confirm your address, go to my Tri-C space and select "Update My Account Information." If you do not do this before registration, you will get an error message directing you to my Tri-C space to confirm your address. You can then return to Tri-C Grad Plan to complete your registration.
Please note: College Credit Plus, workforce and professional development, Encore, Program 60 and summer camp students cannot register for classes in Tri-C Grad Plan.
When you have selected your major or program, Tri-C Grad Plan will recommend class sections to register for based on your preferences. If you are not pursuing a degree or would just like to browse the complete schedule, you can search by class, instructor, campus or type of class.
Select "Add a Course." From here, you can update the filters for things like "Flexible Start," "Campus" or "Class Type" (i.e., online or on-campus), or type a course name, title or instructor into the search bar.
You will see a list of courses. Click on a course to see the available class sections. The sections you can register for will show as "Available." Click to view details about the section's descriptions, dates and times. To add a course to your plan, choose the "Select" button, then "Save Changes."
"Minimize 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 times interfere with the only time a prerequisite the 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.
Yes. DegreeWorks exceptions are displayed on the "Progress" tab within Tri-C Grad Plan.
If you receive an error while you're trying to register, the system should give you a message with steps to resolve your issue. In most cases, it will refer you to the Student Services office. Generally, your best resource is always an academic counselor!
If you receive an error and are not sure how to proceed, chat with technical support within Tri-C Grad Plan. You can also click the "Help" button to send a feedback response.
To perform a "What-If" analysis for a different major or program, click "Change" under the "Goal" tab to see a list of other majors or programs to explore. Tri-C Grad Plan will recalculate a plan based on that major or program's requirements. Before building a "What-If" plan, you will be asked if you want to save your current plan. Select "Yes" to make sure you can go back to your declared plan later. You can access saved plans from your dashboard or the "Timeline" button.
Changing your goal in Tri-C Grad Plan does not officially change your major or program with the College. If you register for classes from a "What-If" plan, you might end up taking classes that are not required for your degree or that financial aid will not cover.
To officially change your major or program, you should first meet with an academic counselor. You can submit a "Change Major Request" by selecting "Change Major" on the "Academic Records" card in my Tri-C space. Once Tri-C changes your major or program, you will need to build a declared plan from your dashboard or use the "Reset to Declared Plan" option in the "Goals" tab. This will make sure you are following your most up-to-date plan in Tri-C Grad Plan.
If you officially change your major or program, Tri-C Grad Plan will show your old plan by default, grayed out and with an ND or "Not Declared" status. To build a new plan for your updated major or program, select either "Build a Declared Plan" from the dashboard or "Reset to Declared Plan" in the "Goals" tab of your plan.
From the schedule view, click "Change," then "Mark to Drop" and "Update Registration." If you are dropping a class and adding another, you can use "Swap With..." to drop and add in a single step.
The system may try to replace the section you are dropping with another that is still open for registration. It does this to meet your preferences for the number of credits you want to take per term and help you complete on time. However, this may not be what you want — especially if you are withdrawing late in the term.
To override the suggestion to add a new section, select "Ignore and Continue Registration."
Yes, and you can also delete plans that you no longer need from the dashboard.
All changes made by a student or academic counselor are automatically saved to the current plan. A list of previously saved plans will be available on your dashboard or via the "Timeline" button on the plan. Be sure to click "Save" to make sure you can go back to a plan later.
Plans created with an academic counselor will be marked "Official" to indicate the plan was counselor-approved.
Please note: If you go back to a previously saved plan, you will be defaulted to "View Only" mode. Click the "Edit" button to make changes or register with this plan. Now, it will become your current plan.
Yes, you can move courses around in your plan by dragging and dropping. To verify that your plan is valid, click the blue "Optimize" button. If your changes are not valid, Tri-C Grad Plan will suggest updates to ensure you meet the prerequisite and degree requirements and can complete on time.
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.
An "Official Plan" 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.
Tri-C Grad Plan will recommend sections based on your major or program and the preferences you select. To choose a section with a different instructor or time, select "Change" and then "Change Section For." You will see a new list of instructors and times. Search for instructors or add filters for campus, class type, etc. You can also allow Tri-C Grad Plan to recommend new days and times based on your availability on the schedule grid or by adjusting the slider for the number of classes you want to take on campus versus online.
Yes. Click on the number hyperlink at the top of each term column to adjust the number of credits you want for that term. After making changes, select the "Optimize" button to have Smart Plan update your plan based on your preference.
In the schedule view, go to the campus list and only select the campuses you want to take classes at. Use the "Deselect All" button to make this easier. Your schedule will adjust accordingly after you "Optimize." To save this preference for every term, select "Make Default."
If you want to take online classes, you may want to leave all campuses selected to expand your online options, since you can take online classes offered by any Tri-C campus.
No counselor approval is required. There are no automatic notifications, but the dashboard will display when a plan has been changed and by whom.
In the schedule view, use the slider to adjust how many on-campus or online classes you want to plan for the term. Your schedule will adjust accordingly after you "Optimize." Select all campuses for more online class options.
Please note: Two online class formats are available — those with live online class meetings via video conference (Virtual Meetings — DWS) or those without scheduled meetings (Online/Asynchronous — DWB). Classes with live online meetings will show dates and times in the schedule grid.
Tri-C Grad Plan will help you complete your degree or certificate at Tri-C. If you are planning to transfer to a university, you should verify the prerequisites for the major you want to pursue with the transfer school. Most STEM field degrees — like biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, math, statistics and business — require prerequisites before you can be accepted to that major, and these can vary by school.
After verifying the prerequisites for your intended school and major, connect with an academic counselor at Tri-C to update your plan so you can complete and transfer successfully.
