New audit system interactive, simple

The new Degree Audit Report System, DARS, developed by the Office of Undergraduate Academic Services will make it easier for students to keep track of their major and minor requirements.

It is a substantial improvement from the traditional  Student Academic Support System interface, which only shows an “OK” or “NO” next to basic university requirements and lumps every course students have taken into a list found at the bottom of the audit.

With this traditional HTML format, students are forced to dissect which courses count for which requirements, which courses were taken at another institution and how the grades earned make up their cumulative GPA and their UCF GPA.

The new interactive audit system, which will be available this fall, displays all of this information on colorful graphs that show how many credit hours have been completed and how many are planned, in progress or unfulfilled for each student’s major.

Students may also view university requirements and prerequisites as well as core classes and electives.

Students can see their GPA for each of these categories and click on the bar for each category to view the courses that fall into this grouping.

As a result, they will have a much better idea of how many classes they still need to take and will be able to plan each semester accordingly.

Less confusion means fewer students will get halfway through their senior year and realize they will not be able to graduate in the spring or summer like they planned.

The new audit will also be a big help to students with undeclared majors as it will allow them to plug any major or minor into their audit to see how many hours it will require and how long it will take them to graduate with the degree.

This move has even helped UCF earn some bragging rights as it is one of the first public universities in Florida to adopt this new system, while FSU and UF are still using the traditional SASS system.

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Lame

Fri Jul 24 2009 04:04

You where about to graduate from UCF yet you don't know the difference between lose and loose? They should have taken more money from you.

Terry

Fri Jul 24 2009 03:53

It doesn't matter what system is used, UCF is an university determined to get at much money out of students as possible. I was approved for graduation with a month to go when my advisor contacted me and said i was still short one class and to check my audit in which she had changed and "ok" to "no." The reason why UCF is often referred to as U Can't Finish is because the administration often looses student information or have such a high work load they often miss things. My advice to all prospective students: don't. Don't go to UCF, florida has better, organized schools with teachers who care . I only know of 4 professors since I have been here that truly care to teach, the rest read off powerpoints- which is something i could have done myself. My advisor has been changed on me 3 times to the point I don't even trust what they say. I should have gone to Valencia.

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