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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

Year: Junior

Contact: sxg200117@utdallas.edu

  • 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

Name: N/A

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Year: Junior

Contact: jet200004@utdallas.edu

  • 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

Name: N/A

Major: Advisors

Year: Senior

Contact: dpb200002@utdallas.edu

  • 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

Name: Rohith

Major: Finance

Year: Freshman

  • Advisor does respond to his email quickly, thinks his advisor is OK

  • Just used Excel before he came here, had it all done before his orientation

  • Switched over to using UTD degree planner which allows him to import his classes into schedule planner each semester

  • Just looks at course description to see prereqs

Name: N/A

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Year: Freshman

  • Hasn’t even met his advisors

  • Planned his entire degree before orientation

  • Had a sister that graduated from UTD and helped with choose his classes

  • Uses UTD degree planner which allows him to import into schedule planner each semester

Name: N/A

Major: Computer Science

Year: Freshman

  • Talked to advisor once during orientation and not siince

  • Just uses the flowchart

  • Just looks at the flowchart, RMF, utdgrades and nothing else

  • Has sister that just graduated from UTD to help him pick his classes

Name: Laura

Major: Computer Engineering

Year: Freshman

  • All freshman had to go to an advisor meeting

    • She wasn’t sure if the advisors were even ECS advisors

    • At her orientation, she didn’t meet with advisors, she went to honors orientation and didn’t have that

      • Doesn’t know if she’s staying in honors

    • To plan degree, she used the actual catalog and looks at the requirements

      • Looks at core first, then intro major courses and just crosses off the one’s she met in her head

    • Tried to email advisors to change majors and they didn’t respond

      • At first Biomed then tried changing to EE

  • Suggested we add a warning for pre/corequisites when courses are added

laura.olivacuenca@utdallas.edu

olivacuencalaura@gmail.com

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