2. Go to www.econ.gatech.edu

3. Click on the Advising tab

4. Click on Forms

5. Choose your degree Students pursuing the International Plan should use the Custom Option with their IP Advisor in the SOE

6. Options for course planning Custom Course Plan Allows students to choose individual courses Best for students with a specific goal in mind Can be used to customize a menu based course plan Menu Based Course Plan Allows students to choose categories that populate electives Best for students with a general goal in mind

7. Custom Course Plan The Course Planning Sheet opens to the Customizable Credit Sheet page

8. Start in the top left and work your way right and then down

9. Click on a cell with a black border and shaded interior

10. You will see a small box with an arrow appear to the right of the cell you have chosen

11. And the name in the cell will appear in the text box

12. Click on the square with the arrow to the right of the cell you chose

13. A drop down menu of choices for that elective will appear

14. Highlight the class you want to enter into your course plan and click on it

15. That course will populate the cell you chose and the text box

16. These boxes are interactive from top to bottom. If you choose Survey of Calculus, it removes Calculus II from your Math 2 choices

17. Continue this process, going down each group, before moving to the right to the next group, and completing each row of groups before moving down to the next row of groups

18. Once you have completed all the course selections, click on the Working Plan tab at the bottom of the screen

19. Before you made your changes, the working plan looked like this, with the Custom Course Plan categories in the cells

20. Now it looks like this, with all your choices inserted into the cells Note that the custom plan does not affect the course hours calculation

21. Menu Based Course Plan Click on the tab labeled Working Plan

22. This worksheet opens up

23. You only have to make choices in the black bordered shaded cells at the top of the page

24. The EIA Exception Due to the variety of classes that satisfy the EIA language requirement, any attempt to integrate those classes into the Menu system would have resulted in a cumbersome mess Therefore, EIA students using the Menu Based Course Plan must enter the courses used to satisfy their Language Requirement in the Customizable Credit Sheet worksheet

25. Now, click on the Customizable Credit Sheet

26. Complete just the Language Classes as if you were performing an Custom Course Plan

27. Now, click on the Working Plan tab

28. Notice that the Language Electives are the ones you chose in the Customizable Credit Sheet

29. These cells operate just like the ones in the Customizable Course Plan sheet

30. Having selected a primary focus of Industrial Organization, secondary focus of Advanced Industrial Organization, a minor in Math-Stats, and a certificate in Accounting, this student has a complete plan

31. If you click on the tab for the Full Plan worksheet, you can see a printable version of your entire course plan without blanks

32. While you may need to adjust the font size for classes with larger names, you now have an overall plan ready for printing

33. You can modify a Menu Based Plan by using the Custom Options in the drop down menus in the Working Plan

34. Find the class you want to change Suppose that you want to change the Special Topics course to Economic and Financial Modeling

35. Then click the Menu box that determines the class for the cell occupied by the class you want to change

36. Set that menu to Custom – it is always the last choice

37. Determine the which cells reverted to the Customizable Course Plan settings

38. Click on the Customizable Credit Sheet tab

39. Identify the electives that you need to modify

40. In this case, start by setting Econ Elective 2 to ECON 4360 Network Economics, which you did not want to change

41. Then set Econ Elective 3 to ECON 3150 Econ & Finance Modeling to make the change you want to see

42. Then click on the Working Plan tab

43. You can see that the changes you want have appeared on the Working Plan worksheet

44. The power of the Working Sheet Make sure that you whatever changes you want to make appear on the Working Sheet as it is the foundation of all other sheets Full Plan Remaining Classes Core Area Check Sheet

45. Next, click on the Full Plan tab

46. Notice that the Full Plan worksheet reflects the change you made in the Working Plan worksheet

47. Now, click the Remaining Classes tab

48. Notice that it is currently identical to the Full Plan worksheet This will change as you tell the Excel program that you have competed classes

49. Now, click the Class Status tab

50. Here you will find every class in the catalog listed by course identifier and name with a black bordered shaded cell next to it

51. The power of the Course Status worksheet The Course Status worksheet keeps track of the classes you have completed (or at least believe you will complete) successfully and modifies other important pages Remaining Courses Core Area Check Sheet

52. Suppose that you are taking ECON 2106 Principles of Microeconomics and are making an A at the midterm Just scroll to the right until you find the Economics Section

53. Then click the black bordered shaded box to the right of ECON 2106 Prin of Microeconomics

54. Just as before, a small box with a down arrow will appear

55. Click the square then select Completed

56. You will notice the box turns green and says Completed

57. Now click on the Full Plan tab

58. You will notice that nothing changed This page remains static as long as you do not change the Working Plan worksheet

59. Now click the Remaining Classes tab

60. Notice that the box that did contain ECON 2106 Prin of Micoreconomics is no longer visible

61. Now, click on the Class Status worksheet

62. Once in the Class Status worksheet, change the status of the following classes to Completed Math 1501: Calculus I Math 1502: Calculus II EAS 1600: Intro-Environmental Sci ENGL 1101: English Composition I PUBP 3000: US Constitutional Issues MGT 2250: Management Statistics

63. Click on the Remaining Classes tab

64. Notice that all the classes whose status you changed to Completed are no longer visible

65. What classes should you take next semester? You can use the Remaining Classes illustration to determine what classes to take the next semester All it requires is a blank piece of paper

66. Start by looking at the Remaining Classes illustration

67. Place the piece of paper over the illustration

68. Now slide the paper downwards

69. Continue to slide the piece of paper downward until it no longer covers at least the number of classes you want to take

70. Highest classes have priority

71. If possible, this student should take HPS 1040: Health first

72. Then, they should try and take EAS 1601: Habitable Planet, ENGL 1102: English Composition II, and CS 1315 Intro to Media Computation

73. Finally, they should round out their schedule with ECON 2105: Prin of Macroeconomics, ECON 3110: Adv Microeconomics, MATH 2401: Calculus III, and MGT 2200: Information Technology

74. Now, click on the Core Area Check Sheet tab

75. Notice that all the classes that you changed the status to completed are listed on this sheet

76. The Core Area Check Sheet places the classes you have completed into the Core Areas as defined by the Board of Regents and Georgia Tech

77. The Core Area Check Sheet also keeps track of the credit hours that contribute to your degree according to your course plan

78. You will turn in a print out of this worksheet to your advisor with your CAPP report and completed Petition to Graduate before the departmental deadline when you are preparing to graduate (Oct 1 for Spring and Mar 1 for Fall and Summer)

79. Questions?