Getting started: Degree audit reports for students
If you do not know how to run a degree audit report or if you have trouble running a degree audit report, please read the following directions.
- What is a degree audit report?
- Does the degree audit replace the academic adviser?
- How often is student information updated?
- How do I run a degree audit report for a double major?
- How is transfer work from another institution used in the degree audit report?
- How do I find courses to complete the requirements?
- How do I run an online degree audit report?
- How do I print a degree audit report?
- How do I enter planned courses into the degree audit report?
- How do I enter an anticipated grade for a planned course?
- How can I see how planned courses will affect my degree audit report?
- How do I run a "What if" degree audit report?
- How do I run a degree audit report that does not include courses that are currently in progress?
- How do I run a degree audit using a "paper saving" method?
What is a degree audit report?
The degree audit is an automated report reflecting the student's academic progress toward the completion of a degree. The student may request a degree audit for their major. In addition, "What If" reports may be requested for other majors the student may be considering. The report automatically places the student's Mizzou course work, transfer courses and courses in progress within a series of requirements and sub-requirements for a specific degree program.
Does the degree audit replace the academic adviser?
No. The degree audit report is a tool used by both academic advisers and students. The student should not rely on the degree audit without consulting with his or her academic advisers. The staff of the University Registrar and the academic advisers make every effort to maintain accurate degree audits; however, there are quite often exceptions to be entered for individual students. The degree audit cannot replace one-on-one contact with the student's academic adviser.
How often is student information updated?
Student information contained in the degree audit will be updated each night.
How do I run a degree audit report for a double major?
Students with double majors should request a separate degree audit for each major program.
How is transfer work from another institution used in the degree audit report?
The report shows how transfer work will apply toward your degree requirements.
How do I find courses to complete the requirements?
Courses that will fulfill a requirement are listed within the requirement as well as courses that will definitely not complete the requirement.
How do I run an online degree audit report?
- Select the following link: Adviser DARSweb
- The following screen will appear:
- Enter your MU user name (use only lowercase characters) in the appropriate field. Do not include "@missouri.edu" when you enter your user name.
- Enter your password.
- The following screen will appear. Enter the student number, or search by entering the student name or browse by selecting an alphabetic character. Select Continue.
- The following screen will appear.
- Select an option from the blue menu bar at the top:
- Courses will provide a list of the students course work.
- Planned Courses will allow the student to enter courses they plan to complete and select the grade they expect to earn. When an audit is run after the planned courses are entered, it will place the courses in the requirements they will fulfill.
- Audits will allow the student to request a new degree audit and also offers the option Help Reading Audit. (At the present time, the bar graphs that will eventually populate the top portion of the degree audit are not active in the MU degree audits.)
- To request a degree audit, select Request a New Audit from the audits drop-down menu.
- The following screen will appear. The large blue area contains the student's current degree program. To request a degree audit for that specific degree program, select Submit a New Audit Request at the bottom of the screen.
Other options available on this screen that will be discussed later include:- Requesting a degree audit that will include planned courses.
- Requesting a degree audit that will exclude courses in progress.
- Run selected program.
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The top screen below will appear. The screen will hold this appearance for up to one minute until the audit is ready to be opened. The second screen below is how the screen will appear when the audit is ready to be viewed. To view the degree audit, select Open Audit.
- A partial audit for a test student is shown below.
- Each section of the audit is called a requirement. Each requirement is numbered and is preceded by a green outline check mark signifying that the requirement will be complete when in-progress courses are completed with a satisfactory grade; a solid green check mark signifying that the requirement is complete; or a red "X" signifying that the requirement is not complete.
- To see the courses in each requirement that have been completed or "select from" courses that will complete the requirement, select the tiny arrow beside the solid green check mark or the red "X".
How do I print a degree audit report?
- To print the degree audit report with all of the requirements closed, select Close All Sections and Printer Friendly at the top of the audit. When the printer friendly version appears, print as usual.
- To print the degree audit with all of the requirements open, select Open All Sections and Printer Friendly at the top of the audit. When the printer friendly version appears, print as usual.
- To print the degree audit report with chosen requirements open or closed, open or close the chosen requirements by selecting the tiny arrow to the left of the requirement number. When all sections are open or closed as they are supposed to be, select Printer Friendly at the top of the audit. When the printer friendly version appears, print as usual.
How do I enter planned courses into the degree audit report?
- Choose a course from the Select From lines below the requirement.
- Enter the course in the Course to Add field in the upper left portion of the degree audit report. Enter a space between the curriculum name and the course number itself. From the pull-down menu, select the term in which you plan to take the course. Select Go.
- The course will appear in the course cart. If you wish to enter other courses to be taken during the same semester as the first course, enter them in the same manner and select Go following each entry.
- When all the courses for that semester are in the course cart, select the small box beside each course in the course cart, check to be sure the semester in which the courses are to be completed is correct, use the pull-down menu to select Make Courses Planned and choose Go.
- Select View Planned Courses.
How do I enter an anticipated grade for a planned course?
- To enter an anticipated grade for a planned course, select the planned course from the list shown on the screen above. The following screen will appear.
Select the anticipated grade from the drop-down menu. Select Save. (Planned courses can also be added from this screen by choosing Add Planned Courses from the drop-down menu and entering the course in the specified fields.) - To return to the view planned courses screen, choose Planned Courses on the menu bar and select View Planned Courses from the drop-down menu.
How can I see how planned courses will affect my degree audit report?
- Choose Audits from the menu bar and select Request New Audit from the drop-down menu. This choice can be made from any of the top menu toolbars in DARSweb.
- On the audit request screen, check the box beside Include Planned Courses. Select Submit a New Audit Request.
- Planned courses should appear within the requirements to which they are assigned. The PL+ indicates that the planned course will fulfill the sub-requirement. The >W indicates that this is a "What If" course.
How do I run a "What if" degree audit report?
- From the audit request screen, select Run Selected Program.
- From the Degree Program drop-down menu, select the degree program for which you would like to run a "What if " degree audit report.
- Select Submit a New Audit Request.
How do I run a degree audit report that does not include courses that are currently in progress?
- From the audit request screen, check the box beside the Exclude IP Courses field.
- Select Submit a New Audit Request.
How do I run a degree audit using a "paper saving" method?
- On the audit request screen in the Audit Output field select 2 UP Print.
- Select Submit a New Audit Request.
- When the audit moves to the wide blue section, select Open Audit.
- You will be asked to select Open, Save or Cancel. Select Open.
- The audit will appear.
- Select the printer icon on the toolbar.
- Select OK from the message that appears.
- The audit will print.