All new students entering UW's Information School
are required to map out an academic plan leading to
graduation. The tool of choice is MyPlan, the University's
online academic planning tool.
"MyPlan allows us to have deeper and more thoughtful
conversations with students about their academic
interests," said Dowell Eugenio, an Informatics Academic
Adviser. "We can track their progress with more certainty
and advise them on what classes to take, and when."
With MyPlan, students can develop a multi-year
academic plan, evaluate their program against degree
requirements, prepare for registration and have more
productive discussions with their advisers. Recently
added features make MyPlan even better. Students
can now build and then electronically hand off their
schedules to the UW's registration system without having
to re-enter information.
MyPlan won a 2014 Campus Technology Innovators
Award, one of 11 honorees selected from 215 higher
education institutions across the globe. And now, thanks
to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
plans are underway to bring MyPlan to students at
Washington's 34 Community and Technical Colleges.
MyPlan is funded in part by the Student Technology Fee
and is a collaborative effort between students, advisers
and partners in the Office of the Registrar, Graduate
School, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and UW-IT.
PASSION NEVER RESTS
Award-winning MyPlan helps students plan for success
MORE INFO: mediaamp.org | uw.edu/itconnect/learn/tools/canvas | depts.washington.edu/myplan | spacescout.uw.edu
Professor Nathan Kutz uses MediaAMP to help transform online education in his department.
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