myPlan

We are launching myPlan to students at UNSW across two separate releases. Release 1 is launching to students within a specific list of programs from 11 November 2024. Before trying to log in to myPlan, please check whether your program is a part of Release 1. If not, you will be a part of the Release 2 launch in April 2025.

If your program is in Release 1 but you still can’t access myPlan, please submit a ticket to the IT Service Desk. We can assist you from there.

Once you accept your offer at UNSW and enrol in your first course, your status in myUNSW changes to ‘active’. myPlan updates your status overnight and your access to myPlan starts the next day (business hours). If you don’t have access after 48 hours, please log a ticket with the IT Service Desk to request assistance.

Yes, you will eventually have access to myPlan, but your experience will be slightly different to other students. You will be able to see the courses you have enrolled in, but you will not have any program rules defined in your ‘Progress’ record. As such, you will not have requirements to work towards. You will, however, have access to myPlan to explore other programs at UNSW to see whether any of your completed or planned courses can count towards other awards at UNSW.

No, you will not be granted access to myPlan at this time.

Progression within research programs at UNSW is tracked through a different online system called GRIS. For more information, please visit the GRIS website.

No, unfortunately only students with an entry year of 2019 or later will have access to myPlan. If you have an entry year of 2018 or earlier and require progression advice to complete your program, please contact The Nucleus: Student Hub.

myPlan is an exciting new study planner and progression checker tool for students and staff. It has a lot of fantastic features, which makes it very useful but potentially also a little overwhelming. Use this Quick Start guide to help you get started

The UNSW Handbook is a comprehensive guide for prospective and current students seeking information about studying at UNSW. The Handbook offers information on approved programs (degrees), disciplinary specialisations and courses (subjects). It also provides extensive details about program content, rules and structure, and course requirements and information.  

myPlan is an interactive tool that allows you to check your progress and plan your courses through to program completion. You can drag and drop courses into your study plan, check how completed courses apply to different programs (if you’re looking to transfer) and confirm the courses you need to complete to graduate.

No, although you can add courses to the study plan, you still need to officially enrol in these courses through myUNSW. You can do this when your enrolment appointments open each year. You can then register for your classes at your class registration appointments for each teaching period.

Yes, it does. Any changes you make to your enrolments in myUNSW reflect in myPlan within minutes. Any other changes to data (your name, program, declared specialisations etc) update overnight.

Any course with a fail grade will not count towards your program. This course will sit under ‘Unmatched courses’ at the bottom of your Progress record.

Any course without a grade prior to the term’s end date will also sit under ‘Unmatched courses’ and not count towards your program until a passing grade is added. Get in touch with the The Nucleus: Student Hub if this occurs.

Every requirement has a set of constraints that a course must meet. Some requirements may only have one or two constraints which display as text. Any requirement with more than two constraints display as ‘[number] constraints’.

Select the constraints button next to the title to view the full list of constraints.

Courses that don’t match the constraints of any requirements within your program sit under ‘Unmatched courses’.

Some programs at UNSW require you to select one or more specialisations to complete the program (in undergraduate programs these are referred to as majors or minors). 

Depending on your program, you can select your specialisation:

• when accepting your offer 
• during the ‘Specialisation Declaration’ process in myUNSW.

If you’ve already selected your specialisation, this will automatically apply to your record in myPlan under the program.

If specialisations are optional, your program rules will tell you. But if there is a requirement for a specialisation and no specialisation has been selected, courses that would normally count towards the specialisation may instead sit under ‘Unmatched courses’. This is because your plan currently does not have a requirement for it. You need to select a specialisation before those courses start to count to your progress. 

If you are ready to declare your specialisation, go to the Specialisation Declaration for more information. Once you officially declare your specialisation via myUNSW, it should display in your record in myPlan the following day.

If you are not ready to commit to a specialisation but would like to plan for one, you can add a specialisation in your program in myPlan to see what it looks like. Select the ‘Not in Plan’ label next to the relevant specialisation and then ‘Add [specialisation]’ from the dropdown.

While every effort is made to add approved course substitutions or other exceptional arrangements for individual students in myPlan, some may have been missed. If you’ve previously contacted The Nucleus: Student Hub and had a course substitution approved, but the exception is not visible on the Progress page, you need to contact your program advisor/s to request the exception be applied to your myPlan record (select your Faculty under ‘Program or course specific issues’).

You may find that an unmatched course only counts towards one specific requirement and this requirement has already been satisfied by another course. In this instance, you can check whether the other course/s can be used to satisfy a different requirement within your program. If so, this would create the opportunity for your unmatched course to be applied against the only requirement it can fulfil.

Select a course to access the course information sidebar and scroll to ‘Can count for’ to view the requirements a course can satisfy.

If a course can count towards more than one requirement, you can prioritise the course against the alternate requirement. Read our guide on how prioritise an eligible course.

If you are unable to move courses in your plan but have unmatched courses remaining, contact your program advisors for assistance (select your Faculty under ‘Program or course specific issues’).

If you see a red circle with an exclamation mark against a course you’ve successfully completed, the course may be already counting towards a requirement further up in your progression rules.

If the course can satisfy a different requirement, you can prioritise the course against the alternate requirement to make it count.

Select a course to access the course information sidebar and scroll to ‘Can count for’ to view the requirements a course can satisfy.

If you are able to apply the course against another requirement, read our guide on how to prioritise an eligible course.

A course may have an equivalent or exclusion (aka anti-requisite) relationship with another course. Select a course in myPlan to access the course information sidebar to check for equivalent and exclusion courses.

Equivalents are courses of a similar level with the same volume of learning that delivers substantially similar learning outcomes and content. The courses automatically substitute for each other in prerequisites and in academic rules for programs and specialisations.

Exclusions are courses with the same volume of learning and include substantially similar content but are taught at a different level and/or deliver different learning outcomes. As there is no educational value in studying both courses, they cannot automatically substitute for one another in academic rules and prerequisites.

An example is, you’ve taken ECON1101 and DPBS1101 is an equivalent course. If DPBS1101 is not allowed to count for a requirement, ECON1101 also can’t count even if it’s not specifically listed in the constraints. As such, ECON1101 will sit under unmatched.

Another example is, you’ve taken ECON1101 and then added the course COMM1100 to your plan which is an exclusion of ECON1101. In this instance, COMM1100 will sit under unmatched because ECON1101 is already counting towards the requirements of your program. In these cases, you’ll see an ‘Anti-requisite course’ label on the unmatched course indicating the exclusion relationship in play. 

Some courses at UNSW indicate program requirements but don’t have official classes for students to enrol in. These courses usually don’t have any Units of Credit (UOC) awarded upon completion.

Some 0 UOC courses, like internships, are built directly into your program rules and should display in your progression if you complete them.

Other 0 UOC courses, such as those that represent recognition of prior knowledge, may sit under ‘Unmatched courses’. This is because these courses are not built into the requirements of your program and are not counting toward your total number of UOC. It is acceptable for these courses to stay in ‘Unmatched courses’.

If none of the above scenarios apply to you and you do not understand why your course is not matching, contact us for assistance.