Career Cruising: Course Planner

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"Career Cruising enabled me to see concrete steps to map out career directions for myself."

Student Kwantlen University College

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Career Cruising: Course Planner Module

Course Planner is a powerful set of tools to help students plan courses that reflect their career aspirations and graduation requirements. Integrated with your student information system, it brings together critical information, such as past credit history, diploma requirements tracking, prerequisites, and course recommendations. Course Planner is an add-on module that enhances the functionality of Career Cruising.

"Course Planner offers flexibility and has the capability to meet the unique needs of any specialized program, student, or school."

Doug Plumb, Department Head of Guidance, W.F. Herman Secondary School

Online Course Selection
Save time and increase accuracy with online course selection, configured at the school level.
Customized Advisory Alerts
Advisory alerts inform students about everything from prerequisite gaps to the cost of supplies for a given course.
Diploma & Certificate Tracking
Track course selections against multiple diploma options and certification programs.

On-Demand Reporting
Quickly access reports with real-time data on student course selections and completion.
Data Integration
Student data and course history are managed through integration with your student information system.
Export Course Selections
Easily export students' course selections for integration with your scheduling system.

Career-Focused Course Planning

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Course Planner simplifies the course planning and selection process for both students and advisors with an easy-to-use interface, automatic validation of course selections, and focus on long-term planning.

Course Planner is fully integrated with the Career Cruising Portfolio Development System, combining students’ career and education exploration activities with their course selections into one seamless process.

Validated Course Selections

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Students can view the same detailed course information available in their traditional course catalogue while making their selections.

Prerequisite and successor relationships are clearly displayed.

Fully customized advisory alerts relay important information such as teacher recommendations and prerequisite issues.

Course selections are exported back to your student information system for scheduling.

Graduation Requirement Tracking

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An easy-to-read graphical interface provides students with a simple view of the courses they have completed and planned, as well as those that are still required.

Schools can enter an unlimited number of graduation pathways and special certification options.

Career Cluster Integration

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Schools can link their course offerings to career clusters. Each course can be associated with more than one cluster.

Students can search for courses by cluster or discipline.

Students can track how their course selections match up with their cluster interests.

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