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    New demo video for TheDegreeTracker

    GratGrat Posts: 293
    edited December 2015 in TheDegreeTracker™
    It's 26 minutes long and narrated by yours truly. Perhaps I'll be able to make a more polished version in the near future, but it gives you a decent idea of what you can do with TheDegreeTracker:

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    • bejacksonbejackson Posts: 31
      What a great overview @Grat -- you have definitely paid great attention to detail! I have a question: on the Planning page, I noticed that you can plan ahead courses for future years -- is there a way to further demarcate which semester you're planning to take a class (including J-Terms & Summers)? I know that in my planning I need to fulfill my residency requirements with J-Terms (I live outside Cambridge) and not as many classes are offered during the J-Terms; thus, I have to plan carefully which classes to take exactly when. Just curious if the tool can plan at that level of detail. Thanks again for all your hard work!
    • GratGrat Posts: 293
      Great question - whenever you create a new course, you'll have the option of filling out the "semester" field. The options there are January, spring, June, summer, and fall. If you pick one of those options, on both the "Tracking" and Planning" pages your courses will show up in that same order within each year. Thus, the order of your courses should show up fully chronological on both the "Tracking" and Planning" pages.
    • bejacksonbejackson Posts: 31
      Excellent!
    • MierCatMierCat Posts: 1
      Video unavailable.
    • GratGrat Posts: 293
      @MierCat Thanks for letting me know. I made that video 5 years ago and now am having a hard time locating it! I'm not sure what happened but I blame Google and YouTube ;). I guess I'll have to make a new one when I get a chance.

      TheDegreeTracker is still up and running with a free trial offer included.
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