1. Enrollment made easy three steps to a complete schedule

2. What is Course Guide?
Course Guide is a fully searchable online course catalog of all possible offerings at UW-Madison that provides course information to students and advisors for use when planning and selecting courses for enrollment at UW-Madison. Filters allow users to view the courses scheduled for a current or upcoming term as well.

3. Find Courses and Save a Plan

4. Course Guide Portlet
The entry point, or portlet, for Course Guide is found in My-UW.
Click the ‘Go to my course guide’ link to launch Course Guide and display all active courses. You can do a keyword search for courses by entering search terms in the ‘Search For’ box. Click the magnifying glass icon to execute the search.

5. Course Guide – Find Courses
There are a number of different criteria available within Course Guide that allow a user to find the courses they’re interested in. You can find courses by entering a keyword, term, school/college, subject, request to see only open sections in a specific term or topic courses. In advanced search, you have the ability to add additional criteria such as course number, credits, level, gen-ed, ethnic, breadth and honors.
Once search criteria is entered, click the ‘Find’ button to view the results. The Expanded View displays the subject, course number, course title, credits, gen-ed, ethnic, breadth, level, L&S credit, last taught, course description, and prerequisite information. If you have selected a term, you will be able to see the list of sections offered for that course by clicking [sections].

6. The course results provide valuable information at a glance:
Course Title
Course Description
Pre-Reqs
Level, Breadth, Honors
Open to 1st Year
The section detail displays the list of sections that a course is offering in the term. The section information that is displayed includes class number, section number, session, day/time, location, instructor, credits and the number of open seats.
Under the Additional Information column, the white post-it icon provides you with pre-requisite, course and section designations, and subject, course or class notes. The textbook icon provides textbook information. The pencil icon provides final exam information and if a section is available for honors or com-b, the appropriate indicator will appear.

7. Add Courses to a Plan
You can add courses to a Plan for a specific term or a Favorites list by using the Plan Courses feature in Course Guide. The Plan Courses feature allows you to manage several lists and set up plans for future terms.
When viewing search results in Course Guide, click the ‘Add to Plans or Favs’ icon next to a course title or topic title.
When adding a course to Plan, a new window should open. Select Favorites to add the course either to your Favorites list or to another list that you have created. The other option is to select Plans, and then select a specific term (ie Fall). This allows you to group courses by the terms in which you wish to take them. Once you have selected a list, be sure to click the Save button. You may have to scroll down to save.

8. Course Guide Degree Planner
Once you have added courses to a list, you can view and manage your planned courses or favorites lists on the Degree Planner tab in Course Guide.
Prior enrollment is displayed along with any grades achieved. Current enrollment and the credits you are taking the course for.
You can move Planned courses among terms in your plan by dragging/dropping the course from one term to another. Courses can also be dragged/dropped from favorites lists into a plan term or from a plan term to a favorites list.

9. Course Details
Additional details about the course can be viewed by clicking the course.

10. Create a Schedule using Schedule Planner

11. Schedule Planner – Getting Started
There are three ways to access the Schedule Planner to build schedules:
Within Course Guide on the Degree Planner tab
In the Student Center under ‘Academics’ on the first page
On the Course Enrollment – Add/Wishlist page in Student Center
Clicking any of the three will take the student to the Scheduler Start Page

12. Scheduler Start Page in Student Center
The Scheduler Start Page is the starting point in the Student Center from which students begin using the Schedule Planner. Click the ‘Click Here’ button to launch Schedule Planner.
Leave this window open…you will return here after creating your schedule.

13. Select Term
Select the term for which you would like to generate a schedule.

14. The first step in using the Schedule Planner is to identify the courses you would like to include or take for the semester. Click the ‘Add Course’ button.

15. Add Courses – individual selection
There are two ways to add courses and create a course list. The first is to pick each desired course individually using the Subject and Course dropdowns.

16. Add Courses – Course Guide Planner
If you took the time to create a Plan within Course Guide, you can add all of those courses to your Schedule Planner course list at once. Click the mycourseguide tab, select the courses to include, and click the ‘Add’ button.

17. Add Breaks
Breaks are used to block out any times that you don’t want a class to be scheduled for.
For example:
Work study or Jobs
Sports practices
Travel time
You can create multiple breaks and include multiple breaks when generating schedules.
Start by clicking ‘Add Break’

18. Enter a Name
Enter Start and End times
Select the days of the week
Save Break

19. Additional Course Filters – View/Edit
Clicking the View/Edit link next to a course will display the list of enrollment packages in the course and some additional filters.

20. From here, students can apply filters to the course to limit the sections to include when generating a schedule.
There are three options available:
Exclude all interest groups
First Year Interest Groups. This includes a secondary dropdown to identify which FIG.
Residence Hall. This also includes a secondary dropdown to select the specific Res Hall to include.

21. Select Courses and Breaks to include, then ‘Generate Schedules’
To generate a schedule:
Select the courses you wish to include.
Select any breaks you want to schedule around.
Click the Generate Schedules button.
Click the ‘View’ link next to the Schedules to view each generated schedule individually.

22. Schedule Planner Results

23. Send Schedule to Wish List (Shopping Cart) and Begin Enrolling

24. Send to Shopping Cart
After you find a schedule that works for you, click the ‘Send Schedule to Shopping Cart’ button.

25. A dialog box will appear informing you that the schedule will now be transferred to the enrollment shopping cart and schedule planner will close. Click OK.

26. If the transfer is successful, you will be presented with a confirmation message and next steps.
Close this window and return to the Student Center – Course Enrollment page.

27. Import Cart
Click the Import Cart button to begin the import process. When importing the classes you selected in the Schedule Planner, you will be prompted for various information such as variable credits, honors options, wait list, etc.

28. After clicking the ‘Import’ button, you will step through the Enrollment Preferences pages for the classes you are adding to your Wish List/Shopping Cart.
You may be prompted for:
Pick a variable credit value
Optional sections
Honors Options
Wait List

29. Begin Enrolling
Select the classes that you wish to enroll in from your wish list and begin enrolling.

30. Resources
Check out for Course Guide and Schedule Planner demos
with any questions or suggestions.
Enrollment Helpline:
Public Course Guide available at mycourseguide.wisc.edu