DARS Report Help
What
is DARS?
Advising
Audit
Description
Header
Information
Requirement
Categories
Requirement,
Sub-requirement, Course lists
Requirement
and Sub-requirement Text
Status
Indicators
Course
Summary
Running
Your DAR Report
What is DARS?
The Degree Audit Reporting
System (DARS) is a system used to automatically check a student's
progress in a degree program. The interactive audit portrays an
audit in both graphic representation, and in a more standard text
based format.
Advising
This report does not eliminate
the need for advising. Rather, DARSWeb and the interactive audit
should serve to enhance advising and encourage student contact with
an advisor for further academic and career counseling.
Audit Description
Each interactive audit represents
a degree progress report presented graphically in requirement categories,
and by individual requirements in text form. Each requirement displays
additionally specifics within its sub-requirement components.
Header Information
Header information, contained
at the top of the interactive audit, displays student information
for that audit run.
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Requirement
Categories
At the top level of the interactive report is a summary of all
degree categories. A category bar graph can be clicked to display
details about the category requirements. A red
X identifies an incomplete requirement and a green
check mark identifies
a complete requirement. A blue check
mark indicates that the requirement contains planned
courses.
Subsequently, a requirement bar graph can be clicked to display
sub-requirement details.
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Requirement,
Sub-requirement, Course lists
Each requirement is detailed
in its sub-requirements. A sub-requirement indicator of - (minus
sign) identifies an incomplete sub-requirement and an indicator
of a + (plus sign) identifies a complete sub-requirement.
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Course lists within
the interactive audit can be presented as links, where the institution
provides additional information about the course, or a request for
additional action on the part of the student. In the example, BOT131's
link brought up a web page containing the course's description.
Additionally, the course can then be added to the Course Cart where
it will then be considered a Planned course.
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Requirement and Sub-requirement text
EARNED: Reports the calculated number of sub-requirements (sub-groups), hours, number of courses and/or grade point average (GPA) applying toward the requirement and sub-requirement.
NEEDS: Reports the number of sub-requirements (sub-groups), hours, number of courses and/or GPA still needed to complete the requirement and sub-requirement.
TEXT: Each requirement and sub-requirement can display descriptive or instructive text.
NOT FROM and SELECT FROM: Is text identifying the course list that will be rejected from or
accepted by the sub-requirement.
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+: The sub-group is complete - the number of courses and/or hours taken, and the courses used are listed; the SELECT FROM typically displays until the entire requirement is completed.
-: The sub-group is not complete.
OR: Only one of two or more sub-groups needs to be completed.
+R or -R: This sub-group
is required to be completed.
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Course Summary
The View Course History link
in the DARS interactive audit is a chronological listing by academic
year/term of the student's course work. This course history differs
from an official transcript of a student's academic record, in that,
the Course Summary requirement would reflect all credit hour adjustments
due to audit checking of duplicate, repeated, limited/pre-requisite
types of courses.
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This information provided by Degree Audit Reporting System ™ | Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
