Plan Ahead

Plan Ahead is the feature in My Banner/Personal Access Pages that students use to request courses for registration. The Registrar’s Office creates plans for students: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, Round 5. Students add course requests to those plans. The Registrar’s Office processes student requests on the dates announced.

To access Plan Ahead, you will need to authenticate with DUO.

Access Plan Ahead

Getting Started

Before you start, we recommend gathering a list of 10 to 12 so the system has alternate courses to attempt when a priority course encounters an error. Create a list in a spreadsheet-- make a copy of the Google sheet in your drive. Keep the following in mind: the timing of classes, types of classes, types of assignments, levels of classes, size of classes, and familiarity with course content by reading course descriptions when prioritizing your list.

Always add your primary section to each plan (Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, Round 4, and Round 5) before adding any alternate section. During registration processing, your requests will be attempted in the order courses were added and saved to the plans.

Music lessons and ensembles must be added during the drop/add period; do not include them in your plans. Don't add these to your plans. Be aware of time conflicts and maximum enrollment.

Year-long courses

Be sure to read the information sent to you about your year-long course enrollments.

Students on Kenyon units: Year-long courses will be added to your schedule on the Monday after your registration.

Students on semester hours: Year-long courses will be added to your schedule before Thanksgiving break.

Video Library

We highly recommend that first-time Plan Ahead users watch the videos below. You can also scroll down for detailed step-by-step instructions.

Watch on YouTube

Step-by-Step Instructions

Select Plan Ahead then select the semester that you would like to search. Click Continue.

Click “Edit” to begin working with a plan.

Sections must be added to the plan in the order in which you would like the system to attempt to add the section. Prioritize your courses then add the priority section to each plan before adding any alternate sections.

Search for the first course by clicking “edit” for the plan. Enter your search criteria (e.g. subject and course number) to begin looking for the sections of the course that you would like to add to your selected plan, click "search."

The search results will be displayed. Courses offered for the upcoming semester will show with “View Sections”.

To view details about the section, select the course title -- read the course description and note the prerequisites/corequisites, and permission of the instructor.

Click “view sections” then select the section by clicking “add” to the plan-- see the example below. Without the CRN, the system will ignore the course request during registration processing.

NOTE: The list of courses is not displayed in the order the courses were added. Follow the instructions above and your courses will be processed in the correct order because the system saves the course section with A sequence number which is used during processing. In other words, your list will look alphabetical but the back end will remember the order in which you added them.

Plans will be viewable by your advisor. You can add notes for your advisor if you would like to give more information on a course you are intending to take.

Alternate courses are not required for each round. However, if your first choice course encounters an error, without an alternate course in the plan you will miss a chance to add a course to your schedule. Note: the credit is increased by 0.50 units/4 semester hours before each plan is processed.

STUDENTS ON KENYON UNITS

Round 1 (up to 0.75 units will be registered)