The D-Planner Project
Built by students, for students
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About D-Planner
D-Planner is a course planning tool for Dartmouth students. Our online platform lets students discover courses that fit their own personalized needs. Instead of looking exhaustively through an overwhelming course catalog, students can leverage D-Planner’s advanced search mechanics to find courses that suit their needs.
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Students drag their desired courses into one of their twelve D-Plan terms, and D-Planner will automatically alert the student about any scheduling conflicts and inform them of their progress towards critical degree requirements.
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Welcome to the future of education planning.
Our Mission
D-Planner is here to service Dartmouth students.
Academic planning is frustrating, but it's also so crucially important. We’re paying astronomically high tuitions, and can’t afford to make poor planning decisions. Regret taking this course? That’s 1 out of your 12 terms here gone. Missed out on a course you would’ve loved to take? There no chance to take it anymore beyond Dartmouth. So close to fulfilling a minor or a second Major? But can’t because the planning didn’t go so well? There’s no going back.
We want to eliminate all of these mistakes that can happen - not because of the student’s fault, but because the college does not offer us tools that can let us make informed planning decisions.
So that’s why D-Planner is here. We want to give every Dartmouth student: 19s, 20s, 21s, 22s, 23s, and every year beyond, the chance to create personalized academic plans that will lead to an intellectually fulfilling four years here - to pursue what they love and explore new fields without worry.
Features of D-Planner
Intelligent Course Planning
We're tired of planning our courses in Excel (or worse on paper) and we know you are too, but fear not! D-Planner is centered around an intuitive plan-based interface that allows students to plan out multiple different paths through their time at Dartmouth with different majors, minors, and more. Whether an on or off-term, D-Planner can help you feel confident in your course decisions!
Keyword-based Course Search
Instead of needing to search for courses based on a specific and arbitrary course name (who here knows what ENGS 30 is by name?), D-Planner is equipped with a powerful and easy to use search engine that allows students to search for all of the courses in the ORC by keywords, name, term, and any other information the college maintains. Enjoy discovering your next favorite course!
Major/Minor Planning
There are no viable solutions for undergraduates looking to plan out their majors and minors before actually declaring sophomore year, that is until now! D-Planner offers major and minor planning features such as required classes and prerequisites. We've done the hard work for you, now all that's left is to dream big!
Automatic Prerequisite Checking
We've listened to you, and you've told us that making sure you have all of your prerequisites are fulfilled in the correct is order is hard. Thanks to our novel live prerequisite-checking algorithms, you will never again be trying to register for a class only to find out that you aren't eligible. Our prerequisite checking also functions with major and minor planning, allowing you to plan quickly and effectively!
Advanced Class Search
Besides our basic plan search, we also offer an advanced search for finding the perfect class schedule for sophomore summer (or any other term!). Advanced search includes filters ranging from broad department selection to specific distributive requirements, historical term offerings, and more! For when out basic search just isn't enough, advanced search is sure to kick your plan to the next level!
Detailed Course Information
Once you've found a class that looks interesting for your plan, our extensive course database offers all information publicly available on the course, from its full name and description to its distributive, past medians, LayupList score, prerequisites and classes with it as a prerequisite, and much more. You no longer need to search through multiple different sites to find all of the course information you will ever need!
Excel/Sheets Plan Import
We understand that students you may have created personal course plans before the advent of D-Planner, but don't worry! D-Planner accepts Excel and Sheets-based .csv files and allows you to import these past documents to a D-Planner plan! We have created a spreadsheet import specification that allows you to quickly and painlessly transfer your hard work to the D-Planner system!
Auto-Generate Plans
To help students who are looking for a starting point for their course plans, we offer course plan auto-generation based on user-specified off and on-terms, user-selected major and minor, courses already taken, as well as the user's expected graduation date. All auto-generated plans will satisfy both prerequisite hierarchy and the requirements of the major and minor, giving you the perfect starting point in finding your path!
About Us
Here at D-Planner, we believe that course planning is fundamental to a successful and enjoyable college experience, and we understand that the process has historically been difficult and stressful. That is, until now.
We are proud to present the D-Planner project, a comprehensive course planning suite tailored to the needs of students just like us. We want course election to be a time of exploration and excitement at being able to fulfill your passions, and we believe that D-Planner is the key.
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Welcome to the future of course planning.
This is D-Planner.
