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This guide walks you through everything you need to go from a blank slate to a working four-year plan in Courseplan. By the end you will have signed in with your Cornell account, completed the onboarding wizard to set up your degree profile, added courses to your semesters, and learned how to read the requirements sidebar to verify your progress.
1

Visit courseplan.io

Open courseplan.io in your browser. You will land on the Courseplan home page, which describes the tool’s features and has a single GET STARTED button in the hero section.
Courseplan works best in a modern desktop browser. Safari, Chrome, and Firefox are all supported.
2

Sign in with your Cornell Google account

Click GET STARTED. A Google sign-in popup will appear. Use your Cornell email address (ending in @cornell.edu) to authenticate.
Courseplan uses Google Sign-In through Firebase Authentication. Only Cornell Google accounts are supported—personal Gmail addresses will not give you access to Cornell course data.
After a successful sign-in you are redirected to the main dashboard. If this is your first visit, the onboarding wizard opens automatically.
3

Complete the onboarding wizard

The onboarding wizard collects three categories of information that Courseplan uses to configure your requirement tracking:
  1. Basic info — your name, entrance semester, graduation semester, college, major(s), minor(s), and optional graduate program.
  2. Transfer credits — AP, IB, and CASE exam results plus whether you passed the Cornell swimming test.
  3. Review — a summary of everything you entered, with edit links back to each section.
Fill in each page and click Next to advance. The Finish button on the review page saves your profile and dismisses the wizard.See Completing the onboarding profile for a detailed walkthrough of every field.
You can return to the onboarding wizard at any time by opening the profile menu in the navigation bar and selecting Edit Profile.
4

Explore the dashboard layout

After onboarding you land on the main dashboard, which has three primary areas:
  • Navigation bar (vertical left column) — switches between Plan, Build (schedule generator), Saved (collections), Tools, and Profile views.
  • Requirements sidebar (left panel, visible in Plan view) — lists all degree requirements grouped by category. A green checkmark appears next to each requirement you have satisfied.
  • Semester grid (main area) — a grid of semesters spanning from your entrance term to your graduation term, where you add and organize courses.
On smaller screens the requirements sidebar is hidden by default. Tap the requirements icon in the navigation bar to toggle it.
5

Add your first course

To add a course to a semester:
  1. Click the + button inside any semester card in the semester grid.
  2. Type a course code (for example, CS 1110) or a course name into the search box.
  3. Select the course from the autocomplete results.
  4. The course card appears in the semester. The requirements sidebar updates immediately to reflect the new fulfillment.
You can also drag an unfulfilled requirement from the sidebar directly into a semester to open a pre-filtered search for courses that satisfy it.
6

Read the requirements sidebar

The requirements sidebar shows your complete degree requirements organized into sections such as college requirements, major requirements, and distribution requirements. Each requirement entry shows:
  • The requirement name and a short description.
  • How many credits or courses you have completed toward it.
  • A progress indicator that turns green when the requirement is fully satisfied.
Hover over any course card in the grid to see which requirements it satisfies, highlighted in the sidebar.
Courseplan’s requirement matching is based on Cornell’s published course data, but it may not capture every nuance of a department’s waiver or substitution policy. Always verify your standing with your academic advisor before pre-enrollment.
7

Save and explore additional features

Your plan is saved automatically to your account after every change—there is no manual save button. You can close and reopen Courseplan at any time and your plan will be exactly as you left it.From here you can explore:
  • Multiple plans — click the plan selector at the top of the semester grid to create a second version of your schedule and compare paths.
  • Schedule generator — switch to the Build view in the navigation bar and select courses to have Courseplan generate conflict-free schedule options for a given semester.
  • Saved courses — use the Saved view to bookmark courses you are considering but not yet ready to commit to a semester.

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