Navigate360

The Academic Planner helps you map out your courses and track progress toward your pathway/degree. It provides a clear plan for future terms, allowing you to align your course selections with your academic and career goals. Stay on track and make informed decisions about your academic journey.

This tutorial walks you through creating a draft of your Educational Plan using Navigate360. The Educational Plan is a quarterly map of classes you will take to work toward your educational goals at Cascadia. That may be admission requirements at your transfer school or training program, Associate degree requirements, and/or High School graduation requirements if you are in Running Start.

1. Log in to Navigate360 with your Cascadia Student email (@student.cascadia.edu) and password.
2. At the beginning of the screen, after the Navigate360 logo, select “Planner”
3. A gear wheel icon can be selected and a video tutorial will appear to show all these steps.
4. Check “My Goals” in My Planner. If the listed degree is incorrect, please submit the Program Update Form. You can continue working on your Educational Plan even if your degree goal needs to be updated.

   

Cascadia has created a template for every pathway available in each degree. Templates list the requirements and electives needed to complete the degree and the desired pathway. Adding a template will give you an outline of the classes you need.

1. In the navigation menu is the “Planning Tools” panel, select “Add Templates.” A list of all templates are available.

   

2. A list of templates will appear in the panel. Templates with a Green Star are programs that match your current academic goal.
3. To add a template from the list, select the “+” button. If using a keyboard, you can also search for a template using the search bar Template Search (by keyword).
4. Templates with a Green Star icon are programs that match your declared program and catalog year. If the starred template isn’t your Goal Program, go through the options, find the template, and select the “+” button.

   

5. If you’ve already added a template to your list, it will appear as Added.
6. Once you’ve added a template(s) it is added to the Planning Tools menu panel, select the one you wish to use and select “View Selected Templates”. If you select or deselect a checkbox, the Selected Templates Details will automatically update in the panel.

   

Your selections are saved automatically, for when you log in again.

1. Add the Academic Terms you expect to take classes. In My Academic Plan panel, select the more options button (three dots). Select “Add a Term,” and select the terms to add them to your academic plan, include all terms you plan to attend Cascadia. Note: many Associate degrees take up to 8 terms to complete if attending full time. You can add more terms later, if you need another term for classes.

   

2. In the Selected Templates panel, there may be some classes marked as “Matched.” These are classes you are currently enrolled in at Cascadia, or classes you have already completed at Cascadia.

   

3. If you have credits from another school, or test scores (AP/IB/Cambridge), these will eventually appear in your “matched” column once they are officially evaluated by Cascadia. Until then, you can mark a requirement as “met,” you can wait to complete this step with your Advisor, if you prefer. Please ask your Advisor if your prior credits and/or test scores might be applied toward your degree at Cascadia.

   

Next, you’ll add classes into future quarters to plan out your educational goals. We recommend that you find your program pathway for additional information on how to plan classes. This section is broken into two options:

Option 1: Adding courses using the Planner Template

1. The Selected Template panel outlines the Course Map recommendations for your selected academic goal.

   

2. For the course(s) that fulfill the template slot’s requirements, select the arrow next to a slot to expand.

   

3. To add a course to your academic plan, select the check box for the course you want to add and select “Add to Term,” then select the term from the menu that opens. You can also add multiple courses to a single term.

   

Option 2: Manually Adding Courses to your Plan

1. In the Planning Tools pane, expand the Course Catalog option by selecting the arrow. Then select Search for Courses.

2. A search page with various filters appears in the panel. (We suggest you use the Subject or Department filter, and not the Keyword filter.)

   When searching for more than one attribute (for example course code and keyword), the search returns courses that meet ALL of the attributes, not ANY of the attributes. If you try a search and end up with no results, try removing one or more attributes to expand your search.

3. After searching, results appear. You can add results to a term by ticking the course and selecting the Add to Term button or the more options button (three dots) next to the course.

   

Your Academic Plan automatically saves as you create it.

We advise you meet with your assigned advisor after creating your Academic Plan. Remember, your Academic Plan is a draft; map it out to the best of your ability. It’s okay if it’s not perfect! Make a list of questions you want to ask your advisor during your appointment. You did it!