Degree audit

1. Login to Dal Online and, under Web for Students, click on Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS).
2. Your current program(s) will be displayed on the Request a Degree Audit page.
3. To run a degree audit on your current program(s), click the Run Declared Programs button at the bottom.  
   • If you wish to include planned courses, please click the Advanced Settings link to display a checkbox to tick to include these courses before clicking the Run Declared Programs button at the bottom
4. When the degree audit has been submitted, you will see a message that audit is being run.
5. When a declared program audit is completed: Double check the date and time to ensure you're opening the audit you just ran then click either the Program or View Audit link to open the degree audit report.
6. Take time to read through your entire degree audit. Yes, it's a lot of text but all the requirements should be included.

1. Login to Dal Online and, under Web for Students, click on Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS).
2. Click the Select a Different Program link to open this section. Next, choose the criteria you wish to search the program requirements for. 
   • Example: For a BA degree with a Science Major, select Science for the Faculty/College.  
   • If you cannot find the program you’re looking for, it might not be setup yet in the system; please email degreeaudit@dal.ca to inquire.
3. For Academic Calendar Year, typically select the year the same degree was started, unless it’s beneficial to switch to requirements listed in a more recent academic calendar. For a different degree, select an upcoming year.
4. When all dropdown menu items have been chosen, you will be returned to a summary allowing you to add minors, if applicable for the program. Finally, click the Run Different Programs button at the botto.
5. If you wish to include planned courses, please click the Advanced Settings link to display a checkbox to tick to includes these courses before clicking the Run Different Program button at the bottom.
6. When the degree audit has been submitted, you will see a message that audit is being run. 
7. When a Different Program Audit is run: The What If Audit Report will appear when completed. Click the Program or View Audit link to open it.
8. Take time to read through your entire degree audit.

Will this course meet a particular degree requirement? Is it ok to take that course? Try them out before registering.

• Add courses by using the Add Planned Course button in the Courses > Planned section. When the button is clicked, it allows you the ability choose the term and course you wish to add. Be sure to add them with no spaces between the department code and the course number, e.g. INDG2050.
• You may also add planned courses by clicking them in the Select from lines within a degree audit, after reviewing the course description.
• Edit courses by clicking the Edit button on the right; you might update the term, course code, grade or credit hours.
• Remove courses by first choosing the course you wish to remove and place a tick in the Delete column tick box and then click the Delete button.

You will then need to run a new degree audit, with the Include Planned Courses box ticked under Advanced Settings, to have the planned courses pulled into the requirements on the degree audit.

• You must also leave the Include In-Progress Courses box ticked to include planned courses. To see if you’re registered for too many courses, see Exclude future registration below and/or connect with an advisor.
• If you’re not sure specific courses you're going to take, put at least the department code and level of the course (first number) so the degree audit picks it up appropriately.  
  •  E.g., I want to take a 3000-level History course but not sure which one yet; add as HIST3999.  If you're adding a bunch of these, make sure they're each unique number, e.g., HIST3999, HIST3998, HIST3997.
• Planned courses are removed by term after the add/drop deadline for that term. This will not affect the courses you are registered for that term. If the course doesn't end up being offered that term (see the timetable) or you decide to take it in a different term, edit its term by clicking the course's edit button.

Most often you will use the default COM option under Advanced Settings, ONL-Include future registration.

• If you are graduating at the next convocation: You may want to switch COM to DGR-No future registration and current year for age of courses check. This sets the graduation year to the current year, for the duration of studies check on your degree audit and excludes registration beyond the upcoming Convocation/Graduation.
• If you think you've registered for too many courses: You can also use COM = DGR, even if you're not graduating at the next Convocation, to exclude future registration.  With that and planned courses you can refine your course selection before making registration changes. If you’re unsure, best to connect with an advisor.

DARS will put a course in the first place it comes to.

• For majors/minors where a course could apply to one or the other (not both), a course will apply to the first major/minor requirement it comes to. 
• To have a course moved to a second major or minor, or back, email degreeaudit@dal.ca.

Your degree audit will pull the requirements from the academic calendar of the year you started that degree (not when you declare your major/minor/honours, and it resets if you change degrees).

• If the requirements for your program in a more recent academic calendar are easier to complete, email degreeaudit@dal.ca to have that section of your degree audit updated to the newer requirements. 
• See Academic Calendars for the current and previous versions (under PDF Versions). 
• You can also confirm this by running a degree audit under Select a Different Program using the different Academic Calendar year. 
• You cannot switch to an academic calendar from before you started your degree.

If you think you might qualify for an exception or waiver of a degree requirement, see "Appeals and waivers" for more information.

Courses that aren't 3 or 6 credit hours sometimes don't get placed or fulfill requirements correctly.  Please contact degreeaudit@dal.ca to have your degree audit manually adjusted.

• This is not typically allowed, unless specified on the degree audit. Particularly, major/minor/core courses at the 2000-level and above cannot count toward another major/minor.
• For BA/BSc, the writing course can also count toward one of the subject groups. Each department can only count toward one subject group. Courses can count toward one subject group and one major/minor.

You still need the minimum number of credit hours at the 2000-level or above in each major/minor.

The course will count in one of the majors/minors and you'll select another course at the same level to substitute in the other major/minor. Send an email message to degreeaudit@dal.ca to have your degree audit manually updated.

Some degree audits cannot check that you have more/equal credit hours at the 2000-level or above in your first major.

This is required to be able to graduate. Sometimes we can just switch the majors around to make it work except where the major has different requirements when it's the first subject.

An error has occurred.

• This might be because the program combination has not yet been setup in the system. Please send an email message to degreeaudit@dal.ca to investigate the issue for you.
• Some graduate programs are not yet setup in DARS. Double check the program approval section of the Grad Studies tab in Dal Online (login required) to ensure you're meeting the requirements.

Though the academic record lists all finalized transfer credits with a grade of TR , if you look at the degree audit, you'll get an indication of what the grade was. 

• These grade-codes are only used by the registration system to ensure the minimum grade for any prerequisites is met; they have no effect on the GPA - transfer credits on admission have a neutral GPA affect.
  • TR = grade of C or C+, TB- = B-, TB = B, TB+ = grade of B+ or higher.
  • PD was a D, PC- was C-, etc.
• In contrast, a letter of permission course (taken at another institution while a Dal/King's student) will have NGR (no grade) until the student has the other institution send the Dal Registrar's Office an official transcript. Visit the Taking courses at other universities page for details.

This is calculated on and pulled from the academic record in Dal Online (login required).

If using the GPA calculator to work through different GPA scenarios, use the LEVEL GPA and GPA HOURS for CGPA and GPA hours.