Buckeye Degree Planner FAQs

Buckeye Degree Planner is replacing the current degree audit (uAchieve) and transfer credit report modules. The audit and planning tool will be rolled out through 2025 on all campuses by group. The current degree audit system will remain until all colleges are onboarded, athletic audits are functional, and transfer credit module is implemented and fully functional, likely in 2026. 

Students can plan terms and track progress up to four years in advance and access key color-coded information in one place — like their programs, GPA and degree progress.  

Advisors can keep track of key information in the same format as students and run informative reports based on characteristics like program courses, unreviewed plans, missing requirements, GPAs and more. 

Administrators can use analytics to streamline processes and improve resource allocation, getting a full picture of the popularity of courses, times and days, programs, university requirements and electives.

The audit and planning tool will be rolled out through 2025 on all campuses by group, starting with undergraduate programs. Fisher College of Business will be first to go live in late September 2024. The College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science, along with some programs in the College of Engineering and Arts and Sciences Natural and Mathematical Sciences will go live in early 2025.

Staff will receive training from the Office of the University Registrar Degree Audit Team via a live online webinar or from experts in their own college. 

Students will have access to knowledge articles, FAQs, and how-to videos. Incoming new and transfer students will learn about Buckeye Degree Planner in their survey course. 

Buckeye Degree Planner shows course details, terms the course is likely to be offered, campuses it is offered on, instructors, prerequisites, credit hours and attributes. It does not show how many seats remain or waitlist status.

Please contact us at degreeaudit@osu.edu

Symbols Glossary

Green checkmark: The course/requirement has been completed. These are already taken and passed classes, or requirements that are completely fulfilled. These will remain the same in the official and planned audit

Red box: The course/requirement still needs to be completed. In your official audit, any section not taken or registered will show as red. In your planned audit, any section that is not yet in your plan will be red.

Yellow double checkmarks: The course is currently being taken this term.

Yellow single checkmark: The course/requirement is in the plan and will be satisfied once completed. Official = only classes registered for the current semester will show in yellow. Planned = all the classes you already have planned out with Stellic, even years ahead, will show yellow.

Red numbers in a red box: The number of remaining courses for a requirement. Non-course requirements are not included in this total.

Green chain-link icon: The course is double counting with a requirement in another program. Hover over the link symbol for details on where the class is double-counting.

Green circular arrow: The course has been taken more than once. This icon only appears if the course has been taken more than once and isn’t permitted to count for more than one requirement.

Red circle with an exclamation point: The course is taken/registered but not counting for the requirement. (Ex. A course that doesn't have a high enough grade to fill the requirement, or a course that is counting for a different requirement instead.) You'll also see these courses at the bottom of the audit, under Unmatched Courses.

Double-headed arrow: You may (depending on the settings of your school) also have a double-headed arrow icon next to the course name. This indicates that the requirement is being filled by a course that your institution has designated as equivalent with the course noted in the audit.

Student athletes can use Buckeye Degree Planner as their degree plan goes live; however, athletic eligibility will continue to be calculated in the current degree audit system until all new functionality is in place. Athletes should continue to work closely with their college advisor and SASSO counselor. 

If you have both an undergraduate and graduate audit currently you will be able to see both once those programs are live in Buckeye Degree Planner.

No, students will continue to register as they normally do. Students can use Buckeye Degree Planner to map out what courses and requirements they need to satisfy each semester through graduation. 

Data in the Buckeye Degree Planner is refreshed nightly. Anything added today will be available in the audit and plan the next day.

Buckeye Degree Planner calculates the following GPAs for students: 

• Program GPA (the GPA for all eligible courses within a particular program) 

• Term GPA 

• Any custom GPAs specified by the audit (such as a major-specific GPA for core courses) 

The following GPAs are from the Student Information System and are not calculated by Buckeye Degree Planner: 

• Cumulative GPA 

• Any other custom GPAs specified by the institution (such as a mid-semester GPA) 

Green indicates the requirements you have completed, yellow indicates requirements that are currently in progress and gray indicates the remaining requirements you need to fulfill to complete your degree.

Milestones are designed to address non-course requirements. Milestones include checking for residency hours, required minor declarations and things that can only be manually satisfied by an advisor. Milestones functionality is meant to track these requirements together with course requirements, all within the student's audit. 

No, Buckeye Degree Planner is a planning tool. While you will be able to “try on” the program in Buckeye Degree Planner, you will still need to formally declare the program with your advisor/college office. 

Buckeye Degree Planner will show the repeat symbol when a student is repeating a class, but there is no additional messaging that will alert them about grade forgiveness. If a course is added twice an alert will appear indicating the courses has been planned twice.

Please contact us at degreeaudit@osu.edu.