What's the Plan?
MyPlan promises to transform
student academic planning
R
ahul Devanarayanan had his sights set on a challenging double degree in
Civil Engineering and Community, Environment, and Planning—with the
goal of finishing his studies in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, his planning hit a snag. Trying to line up the parallel tracks just wasn't working.
That was when Civil & Environmental Engineering Adviser Mariko Navin introduced Rahul
to MyPlan, a visual, feature-rich academic planning tool launched to all students in January
2013. MyPlan was created by UW-IT with funding support from the Student Technology Fee.
Before MyPlan, students had to use several stand-alone systems to pull together information
for their academic plans. Much work also was done with pencil and paper—a painstaking
and error-prone approach in the University's dynamic environment.
"With MyPlan, we were able to visualize all the courses Rahul needed and come up with a
great alternative strategy," Navin explained.
"MyPlan allows you to be very intentional about how you plan, in a way that's easy to
visualize, adapt, and share," Devanarayanan said. "With MyPlan we were able to optimize my classes so my learning experience will be much more cohesive. Not only that, but
with MyPlan I was able to figure out how to add two minors, in Mathematics and Urban
Planning, and graduate in the same amount of time."
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