Students can access their Degree Audit via Degree Works. Degree Works is a program that tracks degree completion progress. To access Degree Works, search for "Degree Audit" in MyUWF.

The information in Degree Works is refreshed each night. Any changes made (e.g., grade changes or classes added/dropped) will be seen in Degree Works the next day. If you just became a student today, then your audit would be available the next day.

Yes. Once grades have been processed at the end of the semester, they are viewable in  Degree Works following the nightly refresh. Courses in-progress are listed with an "IP" grade.

Within each specific block, your degree audit will outline requirements for the degree, program and/or minor. This information should be used to discuss your academic plans and progress toward your degree with your academic advisor.

If you hover over any course number with your cursor, the name and credit hours for the course will display. If you click on any course number, the link will display complete information including a course description, prerequisites, and scheduling information (scheduling information appears only if the college is allowing registration at the time). If you only see course catalog information, then the course is not scheduled in the upcoming semester.

The degree audits began with the 2011 catalog going forward to 2014.  We have now completed on adding the 2010 and 2009 catalog years to the audit.    As programs come available for earlier catalog years (2009/2010), you will see them on your audit.  Remember to click on "Process New" to see any updates to the audit.

This is a “wildcard” in Degree Works. If the @ sign appears with course numbers after it (i.e., @ 1000:4999), it means you can take any subject area with that level (1000-4000 level course from any subject area).  If the @ appears after a subject prefix (i.e., PSY @), it means you can take any course with that subject prefix (any course in Psychology).

At a minimum, you should review your audit during the following times:

     1.  Before you meet with your academic advisor to discuss registration for an upcoming semester.

     2.  After you register to ensure the courses you selected apply to your requirements as you had planned.

     3.   After your grades for each semester are posted.

     4.   Any time you make a change to your schedule or program. Use the "in-progress" and "pre-registered" check boxes on your audit frequently, then hit "Process New."

Please ask your advisor for assistance. Below are the most common problems and courses of action:

Your degree audit is a tool to provide you with academic information related to your degree progress. It displays courses required and completed in your degree program. Your official transcript is your university academic record and provides a chronological list of courses completed and other academic information.

Once AP scores are received from the College Board, and credit is granted, they are posted to the student record and will appear on the audit. Likewise, transfer work will also appear.   

The Admission's Transfer Articulation Center evaluates all courses completed at other institutions to determine acceptability for transfer to UWF. The Transfer Articulation Center also determines which transferred courses are acceptable towards meeting your General Studies Requirements, and applies these courses to your Audit. Your program (or minor) department must review any transfer courses for purposes of meeting requirements specific to your program. Any courses listed in the "Courses Not Applying to this Program" section are counting towards the total credit hours needed for your degree as general electives (and may or may not be needed for this purpose). Contact your advisor if you find courses in this section which you believe may be applicable to specific degree requirements.

You can use the “What-If” button to do an audit for your program of interest.

 “What-If?” audits show you the requirements for a program and how the courses you have already taken will apply to the program of interest. They DO NOT change your program, nor do they guarantee you will be able to graduate in the area you select.

Degree Works looks at your program holistically and places each course using a “best fit” scenario.  The system also has programmed priorities governing how certain courses will be used in your program. This process will not always be perfect, particularly when multiple possibilities exist. However, as you complete your requirements, it generally works out. If you are concerned about a course that does not appear in the area in which you wanted to use it, you may contact your advisor for assistance.

This is common. In order to ensure your degree meets the University’s General Studies requirements, a specific course that is required in your program may be designated to fulfill that requirement. This enables you to obtain your degree without taking extra classes.

If it is your first semester at the university, you will not have a UWF GPA yet. Once your first semester is completed and grades have posted you will then see an institutional GPA. All of the displayed GPA's on your degree audit are UWF institutional GPA's. If you need to view transfer GPA or cumulative GPA, then go to Self-Service Banner.

The audit reevaluates the placement of courses based on the University's academic policies, such as using a the most recent course. If you are now registered in a course that also would fulfill the requirement, then the auditor will reevaluate what course is used. If you were to drop the course, then the next day, the original course would complete the requirement again.

If the coursework from another institution is not equivalent to a UWF course, then the prefix may be XFER or a UWF prefix with TR in the course number. As with other courses not applying to your program, questions should be directed to your advisor.

Earned Hours displayed at the top of the audit are your total hours earmed, both at UWF and accepted transfer credits. Credit Applied hours that appear in some sections of the audit, include "in-progress" hours unless you uncheck the check boxes towards the top of the audit which indicate "Include in-progress classes" and/or "Include pre-registered classes."  Using these two selections will help you see how in-progress and preregistered class affect your audit. 

Classes located in the "No Credit Awarded" section could be classes taken as a non-degree seeking student before Fall 2014, or for certain programs, especially graduate programs, courses must be taken within a certain number of years to count, or it could be a course which you used "Grade Forgiveness."  Basically, courses in this section are not receiving credit and do not affect your GPA.

Building a plan in Degree Works