Study Planner

Study Planner is an application designed for students to facilitate their control over their studies. In this application, students can plan what courses they want to complete in each semester and save such a plan and use it as a template when registering courses.

The application can be accessed via:

A video tutorial that introduces how to work with the Study Planner:

Study Planner features:

• Overview of completed semesters and courses in them.
• Planning of courses for future semesters, including checking whether courses will be offered in selected semesters. Checking the offering of courses is only predictive based on their offering in the past. There is no guarantee that courses will be offered in the future.
• An overview of the number of credits in individual semesters and the whole study.
• Prerequisites check for scheduled courses.
• Checking the conditions for advancement to the next semester in accordance with the valid Study and Examination Regulations.
• Save searched courses.
• Enable registration of courses based on the created plan.

The Study Planner application displays individual semesters and the courses that the student plans to take in each of them. For each course, the student can see icons indicating the planning status of the course (see the question How do I add a course to a semester in the Study Planner?). On the right side of the application, students have access to the Course Container, where they can store interesting courses they are considering and gradually add them to their study plan. The last important part of the application is the basic study progress check.

The first step a student has to take when creating a plan for his/her studies is to create the appropriate semesters that the student wants to plan. By default, there are several empty semesters in the application that match the standard length of the study. To create a new (next) semester, the student must click the + Add Semester button:

There are two main ways to search for courses in the Study Planner application: searching via the Course Catalogue and searching via the Monitoring Templates. Both options are available after clicking the “Add Course” button (the large plus sign at the top of the application or within the Course Container).

In the Course Catalogue, students can select from a range of attributes to filter the displayed courses (e.g., courses marked with a star, or those with a certain number of credits). To select the courses they want to add to their plan, students need to check the boxes next to the relevant courses and then return to the application. The selected courses will be saved to the Course Container. A help page is available for detailed guidance on how to search in the Course Catalogue.

The second option for finding and adding courses to the study plan is using the Monitoring Templates. These templates display all courses linked to the student’s currently selected program of study. Courses are organized hierarchically into categories (typically Compulsory Courses, Compulsory Selective Courses, or sets of courses based on any study specializations). Students can expand these categories and choose from the offered courses. For more information, they can click on a course title to open its Course Information page. To add a course to the study plan, the student must click the + button in the corresponding course box. This will place the course into the Course Container (see the help topic: How do I add a course to a semester in the Study Planner?).

To add a course to a planned semester, simply drag it from the list in the Course Container and drop it into the desired semester. In the top-right corner of each planned course, you may see a variety of icons that indicate additional information about the course status (e.g., whether it is enrolled, completed, etc.), whether it conflicts with your study plan (e.g., missing prerequisites), or if there are any other issues with registering or enrolling in the course (e.g., the course is not offered in the selected semester).

Overview of course status icons and their meaning:

Successfully completed.

Unsuccessfully terminated.

Unsuccessfully terminated – can not be repeated.

Sheduled.

Registered.

Enrolled.

Repeated.

Unfulfilled prerequisites.

Not offered.

When creating a plan and entering courses into individual semesters, the student also shows whether he/she has fulfilled sufficient conditions for progress to the next semester. The student can see this clearly in the field, which indicates the number of credits in the scheduled semester. By clicking the icon, students can view detailed information about which requirements have or have not yet been fulfilled.

The application allows you to use the created plan to register for courses in a specific semester. This feature is only available during the period when registration for at least one of the planned courses is enabled. If a student has entered his/her plan with courses in the following semester and at least one of the courses is available to register for (according to the tterm calendar of each faculty), a new Register courses button will appear in this semester.

After clicking on this button, the student will be redirected to the Courses Registration application, where all the courses from the schedule that can be registered at the moment will be pre-filled. Here the student only needs to click on the Save changes button, which will register all the courses that are in the chosen selection and that can be registered.

The study planner not only allows you to plan your studies, but also to check whether such a plan will be sufficient to successfully complete your studies. There are two ways for a student to check their study progress in the application - by checking the study progress and by checking through the Monitoring Templates.

1. Study progress

   The student will find the basic check of the study progress at the bottom of the right panel. The study progress is in the form of a table with individual semesters and the number of credits earned or planned. This function shows the student whether he/she will be able to progress to the next semester according to the set plan and whether he/she will meet the minimum credit value of his/her studies at the end of the plan.

   

   Warning

   Study progress counts only the gain of credits and conditions for advancement to the next semester. It is not a decisive indicator of whether a student will be able to successfully complete this study because there are no distinctions between compulsory, compulsory-elective, and elective courses.

2. Monitoring template

   The second way a student can check the successful completion of their studies is by using the monitoring templates. The student can access these by clicking on the Templates button located in the right panel at the top. After clicking this button, the student will see a window with several tabs - Monitoring templates of the studies, Other monitoring templates and Registration Templates. By default, the student will see the Monitoring templates of the studies tab. Here the student will find all the courses that are linked to his/her currently selected study. Another option is to use the Other monitoring templates tab, by means of which the student can compare his/her study with monitoring templates of other fields. The courses are divided into a tree structure (typically Compulsory Courses, Compulsory Selective Courses or sets of courses according to possible study specializations). The individual levels and parts of the monitoring template are then marked with a color bar on the left side of the respective level. Each color represents a different level of completion for that section:

   • Green – conditions met (all sublevel conditions met)
   • Orange – enrolled (all conditions of the sublevel are met or courses are currently enrolled)
   • Red – conditions not met (one of the sublevel courses was unsuccessfully completed)
   • Blue – scheduled (all courses required to meet the sublevel conditions are scheduled in the Study Planner)
   • Gray – conditions not met and none of the previous cases apply

   If the student has completed all courses (or other conditions such as the number of credits) required to fulfill the given level, the given level will remain collapsed. The student can use the monitoring template to find out which compulsory parts of their studies have already been fulfilled and which courses they have to successfully complete. It is also possible to add the courses to the study plan using the monitoring templates function (see Inserting courses into semesters).