Introduction

UVA Degree Plan Templates + Google Sheets Addon

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

  • Dr. Susan Caffery

Planning is unreasonably effective1. Though you may not follow your plan exactly, the act of working through and processing the steps is a wildly beneficial exercise. The issue is I hate the Student Information System (SIS) degree planner.

  • It's slow
  • It's clunky
  • It's hard to use
  • It's hard to read
  • It's hard to share

A plain spreadsheet is so much easier, versatile and faster to use.

What is this project?

This project contains two things:

  • a collection of degree planning templates
  • a Google Sheets Addon that automatically populates the templates with your course information.

Clone the template

Pull all relevant course information. No more errors in translation. Everything else populates.

Add the API to your site

If starting from scratch is more your style, add the Addon to your Google Sheet here. Check out the Addon Reference for what the addon can do.

Only touch Course Number and GPA

Everything else can be automatically populated. Quite literally the fastest course planning experience you'll ever have.

Footnotes

  1. Students with a 4-year graduation plan have a 80.9% greater chance of graduating in four years or less according to Letkiewicz et al. (opens in a new tab)