Run "What-If" Reports

How to Run "What-If" Reports

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The What-If (WHIF) report type allows staff members to run an academic progress report in a simulation environment. There are two options in the WHIF report type that can be run separately or together:

Career Simulation

What-If Course(s)

Career Simulation

Career Simulation allows users to see how additions or changes to a student's program, plan, or sub-plan will impact a student's progress. An example of when this could be used is when a student wishes to transfer to a new program. In this situation, the program code could be changed in the simulation report (WHIF) which means the what-if report would show which requirements are satisfied and which are outstanding using the student's actual courses and the new program requirements.

Navigation in SIMS: Academic Advisement > Student Advisement > Request Advisement Report

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Step 1

Enter Request

Select 'Add a New Value' tab
Enter student ID
Choose 'WHIF' under report type
Click Add

Step 2

Check 'Use Career Simulation' box and then click 'View/Change the Career Simulation'

Step 3

Enter data under Create What-If Scenario

You have the option of either using the 'Copy Current Program' function or entering all required fields manually. If you use the copy function, all program information for the student will be copied from the Student Program/Plan page into the appropriate fields. Once the information is copied you can then make changes: field values can be changed or rows inserted or removed for any of the fields. When done making changes, click OK.

Important: If a student has multiple careers, even discontinued ones, the Copy Current Program function copies all of their careers. Remove the unwanted panels. If you don鈥檛 do this the APR will run for all programs, including discontinued ones.

Step 4

Click OK and then Process Request

Step 5

View the report

WHIF reports look very similar to other APR reports once run and do not differentiate WHIF programs/plans/subplans from those that are not WHIF. There are only a couple distinguishing features: