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    dannychapesdannychapes Posts: 16
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    At the end of this summer, I will have completed 64 credits at HES and will have completed my AA. I would like to use the DegreeTracker for the remainder of my ALB beginning this fall. Is there a way to add courses no longer offered to my completed course history? While searching I only find the current course catalog. I did notice that I can enter the subject and number (GOVT E-1042, for example) but that was all and I was curious whether I was missing something.

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    • GratGrat Posts: 293
      We try to keep thedegreetracker.com updated when new courses come out and haven't tried preserving previous years. It would make it more difficult to sift through literally thousands of previous courses to find the current ones for most users.

      With that said, The Degree Tracker does allow you to manually enter your previous courses, and you'd only have to fill out the required fields. It may still take a while, but maybe you can relive your triumphs at HES if you take the time to do it?

      One potential workaround would be to find the current version of your previous courses and simply change the date.

      In any case, good luck with the ALB!
    • dannychapesdannychapes Posts: 16
      Thank you for the timely reply. That is what I thought to be the case, I appreciate your assistance.
    • bejacksonbejackson Posts: 31
      @Grat I have a question: Can the Degree Tracker show which courses are new from last year? Every year the extension school has new offerings, but never a list of only the new additions. I've requested that from the admissions office, but they say that is not easily available. It would be nice to know this to help decide if there's a better offering to replace an older course I was already planning. Thank you!
    • GratGrat Posts: 293
      I could actually do that fairly easily. Maybe I'll just post the results here instead of trying to work it into The Degree Tracker
    • bejacksonbejackson Posts: 31
      That would be great! I told the admissions office, "surely it's just a simple SQL query based on date_added".... ;)
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