Using the student course planner

Plan a student's courses across multiple school years on their profile.

Overview

The student course planner lets counselors and administrators map out which courses a student should take in each year and term, working toward graduation requirements. You can apply district-wide course plan templates, manually add or remove courses, and track progress against graduation paths — all from the student's profile.

This guide covers:

• Opening the course planner

• Creating a plan for a student

• Applying an admin course plan template

• Adding or removing courses manually

• Reading the credit summary and graduation progress

Opening the course planner

1. Open a student's profile

2. Click the Courses tab

3. Find the Graduation plan section

Creating a plan for a student

If the student doesn't already have a course plan, click Plan courses. Scout automatically creates a plan based on the student's school enrollment history — no manual setup needed.

Applying a course plan template

Course plan templates are pre-built course sequences (e.g., "4-year college prep track") that administrators create at the district level. Applying a template fills the student's plan with the recommended courses.

1. In the planner, click the Apply plan dropdown

2. Select an admin plan from the list

3. Review the preview showing which courses will be added and where

4. Click Apply to confirm

To remove a previously applied plan, click the chip showing the plan name and select Remove plan. This deletes the courses that came from that template (manually added courses are preserved).

Adding or removing courses manually

Adding a course

1. Find the year and term where you want to add the course

2. Click Add course

3. Search and filter the course catalog by name, subject, grade level, or category

4. Click a course to add it (or select multiple and click Add N courses)

Removing a course

Hover over a course card and click the X to remove it from the plan.

Moving a course

Drag and drop a course card to a different year or term to reschedule it.

Credit summary and graduation progress

The right side of the planner shows a Credit summary with progress against each graduation requirement category (e.g., Math, English, Science).

Each category shows:

• Completed credits — courses the student has finished

• In progress credits — courses the student is currently taking

• Planned credits — courses scheduled in the planner but not yet started

• Deficit — credits still needed to meet the requirement

No graduation path?

If the student doesn't have an assigned graduation path, the credit summary still shows total credits earned by category. Use the dropdown above the summary to assign a graduation path so requirements appear.

Tips

• Past terms are read-only — you can see what was taken but can't add or remove courses there

• Multi-select in the course picker lets you add several courses to the same term at once

• The planner respects terms per year from your school's setup — semesters, trimesters, or quarters all work

Permissions

The course planner is available to:

• District admins

• School admins

• Counselors