Academic Advising enables students, advisors, and staff to effectively track degree progress and manage the advisor-advisee relationship. It offers tools to plan and review degree requirements, explore program changes, monitor academic performance, assign advisors to student populations, enter notes on student records, release advising holds, schedule advising appointments, and communicate with students.

Benefits

Academic Advising supports timely degree certification as well as consistent degree planning while minimizing errors.  Academic advising reduces paperwork and manual program check sheets, streamlining the graduation process.

Key Features

• Provides real-time advice and counsel
• Provides intuitive web access to self-service capabilities
• Allows students and advisors considering a change to perform speculative, “what-if” audits for a student, using the student’s current class history and the requirements of the new academic program
• Facilitates 24/7 access to monitor student academic program progress via the Student, Faculty, and Faculty/Staff Links.

What to Expect

This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in IS&T’s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes.

Requirements

• Faculty and Staff require academic advisor or advisor security role. Contact your unit’s Data Security Administrator (DSA) for more information

Getting Started

• Students: In the MyBU Student page, select “Academics”
• Administrators/Faculty: In the MyBU Student page, select the “Advisor” menu, then select “Advisee and Student lookup”