Degree Tracker: Staff/Faculty

The Emory Degree Tracker is a tool within OPUS, which allows students, advisors, and administrators the ability to monitor student progress toward fulfillment of major, minor, concentration, and certificate requirements. This positions schools, users, and all involved stakeholders to realize a more successful advisement engagement and clearer pathways to on-time completion. We hope that students find Degree Tracker beneficial as they transition through their academic journey and that it promotes the effort staff and administrators put in to facilitate students’ success.

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Degree Tracker FAQ

The Emory Degree Tracker is an OPUS tool, which allows students, advisors, and administrators the ability to monitor student progress toward fulfillment of major, minor, concentration, and certificate requirements. The Degree Tracker report runs a student’s current program of study against their credits to date (including Emory enrollment, Oxford credit, articulated transfer credit, and awarded test credit) in order to track their progress toward graduation.

Your OPUS roles are in a drop-down menu at the top-left of your OPUS home page. If you see Faculty/Advisor listed, you can use the Academic Advising tile to access Degree Tracker. If all you see is Administrator, you must use the NavBar and menu system at the top-right to access Degree Tracker.

You can access the Emory Degree Tracker via OPUS by following the directions in How to Run a Degree Tracker Report

The relevant academic structure elements are as follows:

  1. Academic Career– This relates to the school (ex. Undergraduate Emory College, Undergraduate Business, Laney Graduate School, School of Public Health)
  2. Academic Program– For undergraduate students, LIBAS, BBA, AA, and BSN. Graduate student programs often mirror the degree type (ex. MA, PHD, DPT, JD).
  3. Academic Plan– This relates to a student’s major, minor, or certificate and is expressed via plan code (ex. RELBA, RELMIN, RELMA, RELPHD, BLACKCHCRT)
  4. Academic Subplan– Majors with concentrations and majors/minors with more than one entry level, such as foreign languages, may have a subplan (ex. the plan HISTORYBA includes subplans ENCBA, EURSTDSBA, LEHRBA, etc.). Not all plans have subplans.

There are two report types: the Advisement Report and the What-If Report. The Advisement Report shows a student's progress against their currently declared program of study. For users with Administrator access, the OPUS report type for the Advisement Report is ADVSS. The What-If Report allows advisors and students to enter a hypothetical program of study (perhaps a major, concentration, or minor a student is considering but not ready to commit to yet) and check the student’s progress in that scenario. For users with Administrator access, the OPUS report type for the What-If Report is ADVWF.

The interactive report is the onscreen report you view in OPUS with expandable and collapsible sections. The PDF report is a printer-friendly version of everything you see in the interactive report, fully expanded. This report is typically several pages long. The summary report is a simplified overview of the interactive report, indicating only the status of each section without lengthy course lists or other details. This report is much shorter and often referred to during graduation checks.

A green check indicates that a course has been graded. A yellow diamond appears next to a course that a student is enrolled in, currently or in a future term.

Each requirement belongs to a unique requirement group (RG), comprised of at least one requirement (RQ) and a corresponding line number (LN).  These references are helpful not only in determining the exact locations of issues, but also for student exception purposes later on.

Yes. You can view GPA information in the audit within the relevant report categories.

Email the Degree Tracker team at degreetrackerhelp@registrar.emory.edu. Reference the problem area using RQ;LN, if possible.