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Name/Major/Year(undergrad)

Grad date

Do you plan your degree?

What do you do when it comes time to register for classes?

What difficulty you face while planning the degree

Do you planner/Shown the website

Suggestions

Anonymous/CS/Junior

May 2025

yes

  • Go through initial plan provided(Flowchart)

  • Check the coursebook

  • Check the credit needed(core/electives)

  • register through Galaxy

yes

  • Which professor is taking which course, shown trends and then he said if you can have a link on the planner will be helpful

Anonymous/CS/Junior

May 2025

yes

  • go to UTD grades and check the professor

  • go through the flowchart

  • enroll through galaxy

  • Time slot available for professor’s classes

yes/ used once

why stopped using it - forgot about it

Makes it easier for students to plan out the degree

UI - looks fine

Heli/Bio/Freshman +2

2027

No

  • Go through the degree page (sample for medical and dental)

  • Little bit of uncertainity

  • already taken before

  • doesnt fit to particular needs

yes

easier tool to use

UI is good

Paul/CS/Freshman

2027

No

  • Got list of required class, got list of professors
    checked UTD grades

  • Looked at the time schedule

  • Enrolled

  • tedious

  • not sure since I am a freshman

yes

  • use beside skedge

  • pretty intuitive

User Interviews

Name: N/A

Major: Healthcare studies

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Contact: sxg200117@utdallas.edu FOLLOW UP EMAIL SEND ALREADY

  • Advisor is not responsive

  • HVAC commitee does have pre-dental advisors they can reach out to

  • Uses a spreadsheet to make sure he’s taking all the classes he needs to

  • Can’t think of another way to do it

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Contact: jet200004@utdallas.edu FOLLOW UP EMAIL SEND ALREADY

  • Advisors are responsive to an extend; however, believes they change too often and thinks they are unreliable

  • Haven’t found advisors beneficial and hasn’t contacted them since freshman year

  • Get more information from just taking to peers

  • Uses the flowchart

    • Has no trouble following it

    • For transfer credits she just marks off the credits they count towards

  • Would be willing to try an interactive flow chart

  • Has seen her transcript before (lots of people haven't)

  • Not all schools have a flowchart

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Contact: dpb200002@utdallas.edu FOLLOW UP SENT ALREADY

  • When freshman and was transferring back in 2021, advisors were good

    • Now it’s patchy because advisors change so often

  • Uses schedule planner and references the flow chart

  • Just annotates the flowchart

  • Showed me their flowchart and it’s heavily annotated

  • -Just follows the flow chart - doesn’t look at anything else

  • Uses RMF and UTDGrades

  • Never plans for future semesters (but maybe said he would if he had to tools to)

  • Graduates in Spring ‘24

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olivacuencalaura@gmail.com FOLLOW UP SENT ALREADY

Name: Kumud Arora

Major: Computer Science

Year: Freshman

Contact: kumud.arora@utdallas.edu

  • Day to day schedule if that can also be incorporated into the planner ?

Name: Colin Wong

Major: Computer Science

Year: Freshman

Contact: colin.wong@utdallas.edu

  • Additional credit options such as Advanced Placement (AP) or College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) scores can be used to fulfill course requirements.

  • Option for aleks score in place of math credit

  • Exploring the options for pursuing two majors simultaneously