UO is investing in a new system for students to track their degree progress, a major initiative for supporting student success. This ongoing project will modernize the UO degree audit system and eventually replace the UO Degree Guide program.
Funded by strategic dollars from the offices of the President and Provost, the new online tool is scheduled to launch in June 2024. It is a joint project co-led by the Registrar’s Office, Undergraduate Education and Student Success, and Information Services.
The new online degree audit tool will:
- Provide reliable and comprehensive course information to assist students with scenario planning and facilitate on-time graduation.
- Support student-centered coordination of academic advising.
- Allow the institution to centrally track course scheduling trends and bottlenecks.
UO staff are working with vendor Ellucian, and its Degree Works software, to develop and launch the tool. The university has added four new permanent positions to support implementation of the technology and to maximize the UO’s investment:
- One UESS position to assist with user experience for students, advisors, faculty, and departments and to support and develop best practices.
- One Registrar’s Office position to support and guide ongoing curricular review and revisions and to ensure streamlined presentation of degree requirements and choices.
- Two Information Services positions to maintain the system, to manage its data and to provide technical support for system enhancements.
For questions or to request more information, please email the project team at: degreeauditproject@uoregon.edu
PHASE I: Confirm
June 2023
Project kickoff
July 2023
Encoding of the 2022-23 base course catalog.
AugUSt 2023-ApRIL 2024
UO staff on the Degree Modernization Team to complete functional and technical trainings on the new tool every two months as it is developed, for a total of five functional trainings.
October 2023
Advising Implementation Team formed and to begin providing feedback on end-user configurations (website configurations/look and feel).
November-December 2023
Registrar’s Office to complete encoding of existing degree requirements, including validating data with academic departments. In parallel, UESS to gather and confirm 4-year degree plans with academic departments.
December 2023
Branding of new application to be completed.
PHASE II: Prepare
January 2024
Advising Implementation Team to begin functional trainings and start developing Student Educational Plans.
February 2024
Encoding of current 2023-24 catalog to be completed.
February-March 2024
Course Program of Study (CPoS) discovery for Financial Aid assistance programs
March 2024
Digital Accessibility review
March-April 2024
Transfer equivalency functions for transfer students to be developed.
PHASE III: Launch
April-June 2024
Internal rollout and organizational readiness trainings.
July 2024
New tool to go live.