Advisories

Advisories are the equivalent of courses in Academics. You'll create an Advisory, then offer it for a school year before creating Advisory sections. Advisories can be used for homerooms, morning meetings, college counseling and more.

  1. Access Advisories by going to Academics, Scheduling, and then Requests and schedules.

  2. In here, switch the dropdown in the top right corner from Academics to Advisory.

  3. Next, select Advisories to find a search and all currently created advisories.

  1. From Advisories, select Add advisory.

  2. Advisory name, Length, and School Level are the only required fields, but we do recommend filling out as much information as possible to make it easier to find when offering. The remaining fields include:

    • Course Code: Use for cross-reference in external databases.

    • Standard Code

    • Publish to Front End - This makes the information visible on the public facing page.

    • Inactive

    • Record Attendance: Check if attendance is required and installed.

    • Independent Study

    • Max Number of Requests

    • Schedule Note

    • Display in Report and Academic Profile Headers: Check if the advisory and advisor name should appear on the report card . Also check for use with Online Signup if advisors will be recommending courses for their students. Select Head Only to only display the head advisor from the advisory. Select All to display the names of all advisors in the advisory.

    • Display on Directory Profile: Check if the advisory and advisor name should appear on students' directory profiles in Faculty view. Select Head Only to only display the head advisor from the advisory. Select All to display the names of all advisors in the advisory.

    • Total Credits

    • Specify per term

    • GPA Weight

    • Alt. GPA Weight

    • Transcript Category.

    • Grade Plan Group: Select the appropriate grade plan that will be used to grade the advisory if Grading is installed. This is optional.

    • Compulsory

    • Description: Use this field to enter an optional description.

    Warning: Length and School Level can't be changed once the advisory has been offered.

  3. Select Save.

  1. From Advisories, select the context menu next to the advisory you'd like to modify, then select Edit.

  2. All information entered when it was originally created appears.

    Tip: You can also delete advisories from the context menu as well.

  3. Select Save when finished.

Once created, you can offer advisories to make them available for a specific year and school level.