The Basics

Stellic has features that allow students to search for classes for the upcoming semester, plan for multiple semesters into the future, connect with their advisors, and more.

Planning Your Path

Adding Courses to Your Plan

Organize remaining course requirements by planning your course schedule by term! Stellic allows you to drop and drop courses to plan for multiple semesters into the future. See how it works here. Note: this feature is for planning purposes only, course registration will continue in SIS.

Using Placeholders

Placeholders are used when you aren't sure what course to register for but need to hold that space in your schedule. For example, you can hold space for a general requirement without knowing which course you'll take to fill that requirement. See this page to learn more.

Plan for Activities

In addition to course placeholders, you can add activity placeholders to your plan. For example, if there is a semester when you are considering studying abroad, you can add an activity placeholder for that. Learn how to do it here.

Searching for Courses

Using the Schedule "Term XY" Tab

As soon as the course schedule for the next semester becomes available, usually about mid-term, you will be able to start using Stellic to plan for specific classes. In the left sidebar, a tab with the next semester in the name will appear. Here are just a few of the things you can do in this view:

• Search for classes by keyword. For example, you could search for any class with the word "film" in the title or course description.
• Search for classes by time. Drag over a time of day on your week view, and classes that fall in that block will appear. Then you can apply filters on top of them.

Here is more information about adding classes to your plan for the upcoming semester.

Using the Courses Tab

Click on the tab called Courses in the left sidebar to search the entire course catalog. Keep in mind that this catalog is very broad. It will include graduate and undergraduate classes, for example. Use the filters to search by semester or by other criteria. Learn more about this here.

Connecting with Advisors

Messaging

You can send messages directly to your advisor, and they can respond through Stellic as well. Users receive email notifications when they have new messages in Stellic. Learn more about messaging here.

Schedule an Appointment

Schedule a meeting with your advisor through Stellic's appointment tool.

Success Team

On the Track Your Progress page, you will see a box labeled Success Team. You may have one or more advisors in this box, including your assigned academic advisor. You can also add advisors to your team yourself. Detailed instructions from Stellic are available here or you can watch a short video by our UVA team here. This does not officially change your assigned advisor; however, you might encounter different advisors whom you find helpful, and this tool can help you keep track of them.

Tracking Overall Degree Progress 

View Your Progress

Each academic program (like a major, minor, or your school's general education requirements) has an audit with a breakdown of degree requirements and constraints and lists courses that have been taken, in progress, and remaining. Learn more about how to view your progress here.

Understand Program Requirements

Each major, minor, or general education curriculum has requirements. These are rules and constraints that shape academic programs. In Stellic, the word for these requirements in audit. Learn more about it here.

Identify Why a Course Isn't Counting

If you notice a course isn't counting towards a requirement, first, ensure the course fulfills all of the constraints and has not been used to fulfil another requirement in the audit. Read more about how to do this here.