Step 1: Check your credits!!
Before you consider your future - you need to consider your past. Please review your course history in StudentVUE. You should pay particular attention to any F's that have not been repeated or taken in credit recovery. Go to your StudentVUE and click on "Course History." You may want to click on the "Course Detail" toggle button to access more information on your course history.
If you are unable to remember your login information for StudentVUE or having trouble accessing it on a Chromebook/pc, please come to Student Services and Mrs. Martin can help you. |
Use the Four Year Plan/Transcript Evaluation form below to ensure you are meeting graduation requirements. If you need assistance in how to fill out the Four Year Plan, please review the PowerPoint presentation by clicking on the image below.
Step 2: Consider your options.
Next you need to know what classes are available for you next year. Please view this in relation to YOU. Do not make decisions based on what others are doing or not doing as every academic plan is unique to one's individual goals.
We have prepared the course catalog for you to read through. Questions? Contact your school counselor!
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Step 3: Make Your Plan
First thing you will want to do is complete your Course Pick Sheet! You should have received one in PAT but if you did not, you can find a copy here. These need to be turned into your PAT teacher who will then give them to your counselor/case manager.
Step 4: Enter Your Requests
Course requests will be entered using your StudentVUE portal. The video will show you how to access and enter your requests. You will need to do so within your course request window. You should do this on a mac, pc, or Chromebook - it will be difficult/impossible to do so via mobile app.
When you log into your StudentVUE to select your courses you should see recommendations pre-loaded in the following subject areas:
Comprehensive Government and Consumer Econ/Personal Finance
It is your responsibility to move those courses into your course requests if they are the courses you would like to take.
For example, if you took College Literature as a junior and were recommended for College Writing but would prefer to take English 12, you will need to search for the English 12 course for both semester one and two and add those to your course requests.
IMPORTANT NOTES SPECIFIC TO SENIORS
Even if you are on track to graduate and only need two credits you are still required to take at least five classes each semester.
If you are participating in OSAA athletics and/or activities, you are required to take at least five classes each semester, not the six that has been previously required.
You may take up to three periods of Work Experience but you must have a job at the start of the school year. You need to have 60 hours of work per class period per semester in order to pass work experience. If you select 3 periods, that means you have to be able to prove 180 hours of work for the semester to earn credit.
If you are interested in taking courses in-person or online through SWOCC's Expanded Options program, please request one class period of that. Search for the following Course ID: 5690
Lastly, if you do not want a full schedule, you may request up to two class periods each semester as a free period. Course ID is: 00569
If you want to be a teacher or office cadet next year, you must complete this Google Form by February 24th.
Course Selection Window:
Monday, February 12th to Friday, February 16th at 11:59pm.
When you log into your StudentVUE to select your courses you should see recommendations pre-loaded in the following subject areas:
Comprehensive Government and Consumer Econ/Personal Finance
It is your responsibility to move those courses into your course requests if they are the courses you would like to take.
For example, if you took College Literature as a junior and were recommended for College Writing but would prefer to take English 12, you will need to search for the English 12 course for both semester one and two and add those to your course requests.
IMPORTANT NOTES SPECIFIC TO SENIORS
Even if you are on track to graduate and only need two credits you are still required to take at least five classes each semester.
If you are participating in OSAA athletics and/or activities, you are required to take at least five classes each semester, not the six that has been previously required.
You may take up to three periods of Work Experience but you must have a job at the start of the school year. You need to have 60 hours of work per class period per semester in order to pass work experience. If you select 3 periods, that means you have to be able to prove 180 hours of work for the semester to earn credit.
If you are interested in taking courses in-person or online through SWOCC's Expanded Options program, please request one class period of that. Search for the following Course ID: 5690
Lastly, if you do not want a full schedule, you may request up to two class periods each semester as a free period. Course ID is: 00569
If you want to be a teacher or office cadet next year, you must complete this Google Form by February 24th.
Course Selection Window:
Monday, February 12th to Friday, February 16th at 11:59pm.
Step 5: Patience and email checking
Once you have added a course to your requests - it is in. There is no submit button. You can change classes as often as you like when the request window is open if you change your mind. Once the window closes - you will need to contact your school counselor to change any requests and it may fall under the add/drop policy.
Scheduling is like a giant puzzle and takes us about 2 months to create your perfect schedule (it's equivalent to making about 3,000 individual classes all fit together nicely). We can make most student requests work, but we are never able to make them all work. Please be sure to regularly check your email because we may ask you about a scheduling question that needs a prompt reply. If we do not hear back quickly - we may move on to the next student. |
We set the end of May as our goal to return tentative schedules to students each year - however they will be ready...when they are ready.
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