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
Log into Alabama Career Planning System
Click the My Ed Plans tab on the left-hand menu
Click Add a New Plan
Complete all the fields and hit Create Plan
Plan Name (Ex: John's 9th Grade Plan)
Attending School Name - Student to select attending high school
Current Grade Level
Current School Year
Chosen Area of Study – Student to select the high school they'll be attending
Optional - Tech Prep Student (Yes or No)
Available Categories
The Ed Plan tool now offers new Course Categories:
Career Tech - Career Technology subjects or courses offered
Elective Secondary - Elective Subjects or Courses offered
Core Secondary - Core Subjects or Courses offered
Special Education Secondary - Special Education Subjects or Courses offered
College Credit - College Credit Courses offered at your school
Optional - Historical - Past Subjects or Categories no longer offered
How to Add Courses to an Ed Plan
Click the + next to the grade to expand or collapse grade sections
Click the + next to the Subject under the Course Name column to add courses for that grade year and subject area
Courses available for this subject and grade will appear, if no courses appear there are no courses for this grade for this subject
Select Course Name or Course Code to find the course you would like to add
Click Add This Course
Repeat until all courses are added noting that multiple courses can be added per subject, per grade
Follow district requirements of each subject and prerequisites needed for advanced courses when selecting for the ed plan
Click Save if progress needs to be saved and completed on a different day
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.
Log into the Alabama Career Planning System
Click the My Ed Plans tab on the left-hand menu
Look under the Actions Tab
Click Copy next to the started Ed Plan
Complete all the fields and hit Create Plan
Plan Name (Ex: John's 9th Grade Plan)
Attending School Name - Student to select attending high school
Current Grade Level
Current School Year
Chosen Area of Study – Student to select attending high school
Optional - Tech Prep Student (Yes or No)
Click the + next to the grade to expand or collapse grade sections
Click the + next to the Subject under the Course Name column to add courses for that grade year and subject area
Courses available for this subject and grade will appear, if no courses appear there are no courses for this grade for this subject
Select Course Name or Course Code to find the course you would like to add
Click Add This Course
Repeat until all courses are added noting that multiple courses can be added per subject, per grade
Follow district requirements of each subject and prerequisites needed for advanced courses when selecting for the ed plan
Click Save if progress needs to be saved and completed on a different day
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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