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Alabama Students: How to Create an Education Plan
Alabama Students: How to Create an Education Plan

An education plan is used to bridge assessment results with pathways and CTE courses to meet state requirements.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

What is an Education Plan?

The Alabama Career Planning System Ed Plan tool can digitally create a student's four-year plan for high school courses. Alabama requires students to complete a form for an individual graduation plan (IDP) and this tool makes it easy for students to complete.


How to Create a New Ed Plan

  1. Click the My Ed Plans tab on the left-hand menu

  2. Click Add a New Plan

  3. Complete all Required Fields

    1. Plan Name (Ex: John's 9th Grade Plan)

    2. Attending School Name - Student to select attending high school

    3. Current Grade Level

    4. Current School Year

    5. Chosen Area of Study – Student to select the high school they'll be attending

    6. Optional - Tech Prep Student (Yes or No)

  4. Select Create Plan


Available Categories

The Ed Plan tool now offers new Course Categories:

  1. Career Tech - Career Technology subjects or courses offered

  2. Elective Secondary - Elective Subjects or Courses offered

  3. Core Secondary - Core Subjects or Courses offered

  4. Special Education Secondary - Special Education Subjects or Courses offered

  5. College Credit - College Credit Courses offered at your school

  6. Optional - Historical - Past Subjects or Categories no longer offered


How to Add Courses to an Ed Plan

  1. Click the + next to the grade to expand or collapse grade sections

  2. Click the + next to the Subject under the Course Name column to add courses for that grade year and subject area

    1. Courses available for this subject and grade will appear, if no courses appear there are no courses for this grade for this subject

    2. Select Course Name or Course Code to find the course you would like to add

    3. Click Add This Course

  3. Repeat until all courses are added noting that multiple courses can be added per subject, per grade

    1. Follow district requirements of each subject and prerequisites needed for advanced courses when selecting for the ed plan

  4. Click Save if progress needs to be saved and completed on a different day

  5. Click Submit for Approval when ed plan is complete and ready for review

Click Yes on the pop-up box asking if you are sure you would like to submit

In subsequent school years, use the copy feature to add to an existing ed plan. The copy feature is currently under maintenance, updates will be coming soon!

Note: The Ed Plan has now been sent to your administrator and parent or guardian for approval. The plan cannot be edited by the student once it has been submitted, only copied.


How to Edit an Existing Ed Plan

Important Note: An education plan should be submitted the same school year that it has been started in to maintain data integrity.

  1. Click the My Ed Plans tab on the left-hand menu

  2. Look under the Actions Tab

  3. Click Copy next to the started Ed Plan

  4. Complete all the fields and hit Create Plan

    1. Plan Name (Ex: John's 9th Grade Plan)

    2. Attending School Name - Student to select attending high school

    3. Current Grade Level

    4. Current School Year

    5. Chosen Area of Study – Student to select attending high school

    6. Optional - Tech Prep Student (Yes or No)

  5. Click the + next to the grade to expand or collapse grade sections

  6. Click the + next to the Subject under the Course Name column to add courses for that grade year and subject area

    1. Courses available for this subject and grade will appear, if no courses appear there are no courses for this grade for this subject

    2. Select Course Name or Course Code to find the course you would like to add

    3. Click Add This Course

  7. Repeat until all courses are added noting that multiple courses can be added per subject, per grade

    1. Follow district requirements of each subject and prerequisites needed for advanced courses when selecting for the ed plan

  8. Click Save if progress needs to be saved and completed on a different day

  9. Click Submit for Approval when ed plan is complete and ready for review

The Ed Plan has now been sent to your administrator and parent or guardian for approval. The plan cannot be edited by the student once it has been submitted, only copied.


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