Academic Advising Resources

To ensure students are on the right pathway to completion, Coconino Community College has implemented Essential Advising for all First-Time-in-College (FTIC) students.

What is Essential Advising?

If you are a new student, an Essential Advising Hold is placed on your student record. This hold ensures that you meet with a professional advisor during your first semester to develop an educational plan and set yourself up for success.

What to Expect During Your Advising Session

During the essential advising session, a professional advisor will:

• Create an Individualized Educational Plan tailored to your goals
• Discuss stackable credentials, when applicable
• Review available support services and resources to help you stay enrolled and complete your program
• Explain the importance of taking courses within your selected career pathway
• Show you how to use DegreeWorks to track progress toward your certificate or degree

Important Reminder: 
Please visit the Admissions Department to ensure your admissions process is complete before meeting with a professional advisor.

Academic Advisors are here to help you succeed! Whether you're just starting your journey or preparing to graduate, meeting with an advisor can make a big difference. Here’s how:

• Confident Course Selection: Advisors help you choose the right courses to stay on track for your degree, transfer goals, or career path—saving time and reducing the risk of taking unnecessary classes
• Save Money: Avoid excess credits and course changes that could delay graduation. Advisors can help you create an efficient academic plan that aligns with your goals and financial aid.
• Connect to Resources: Not sure where to turn? Advisors can connect you to campus resources like tutoring, career services, counseling, financial aid, and more.
• Stay Informed: Learn about upcoming deadlines, degree requirements, transfer opportunities, and policy changes that could impact your academic progress.
• Academic Planning: Advisors work with you to map out short-term and long-term goals, including semester schedules, graduation planning, and transfer timelines.

Students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor regularly, especially at these key times:

• New Students: As soon as you’re admitted, schedule an advising appointment to discuss your goals and register for your first semester.
• Each Semester: Before registering for classes to ensure your courses align with your academic plan.
• When Considering Changes: If you’re thinking about changing your major, dropping a class, or taking time off.
• Before Graduating: To review degree completion and transfer plans.
• If You’re Struggling: Advisors can help you navigate academic or personal challenges and connect you with support services.

You can access the myCCC student portal through the CCC main webpage at the top of the page. Your user ID is your Comet ID, which is made up of a combination of five characters, starting with your first and last initial. First-time users must create their initial password and security information to activate their myCCC student portal. If you do not know your Comet ID or have changed your password and need to have it reset, please contact the CCC ITS Help Desk at 928-226-4357.

1. Main Menu – Access to the full navigation menu within myCCC.
2. Quick Launch - Single Sign-On Quick Launch icons for Canvas, Gmail, Google Drive, and Self Service Banner. Also includes quick-access shortcuts to SmartThinking, Library and Change Password.
3. Connect Box – The new home for Announcements. All academic, class, ITS, job, news, or student development announcements will appear here and will work as “Feed” similar to social media feeds. Students can choose what categories they would like to see.
4. Gmail Dashboard - A quick view of your recent 50 emails from in your Student Email.
5. Dock Icons & User Settings – Quick-access icons to myCCC applets. On the Android and iOS Apps these will appear on the bottom as a dock. Navigating to the drop down arrow next to the icon opens a menu allowing changes to category preferences, contact information and profile icons.
    

Left Side Navigation Menu

• Home – myCCC Home Page with Connect & Quick Launch
• QuickLaunch – The QuickLaunch applet from the homepage on a page by itself
• Connect – The Connect Feed from the homepage on a page by itself
• Gmail Dashboard – An easy access for students to view their emails, clicking on an email opens Gmail (This is aimed at “preview” for students to click on an email that interests them or to see if they have any unread email without navigating to Gmail)
• Self Service – Banner accessible directly within the portal. Students can register for classes, check registration status, check financial aid, and more without leaving the portal. More information on the next page. (Page 3)
• External Links – Links that do not have applets within the portal, including the CCC website, Library, Event Calendars and more.
• Social Networking – Links to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube.
• Maps – Quickly view the campuses and access directions to them.
• Contacts – Department phone numbers for students to quickly call.
• News – RSS News feed from our website within the Portal. (Pulled from: www.coconino.edu/news)
• Contact Support – CCC ITS Help Desk Email Address

Some users (employees, admins, etc) may see additional links depending on their access within the portal. If there are any questions or have any issues with additional links or missing links, contact the ITS Help Desk.

Self Service Banner

• Banner Profile – Access to view user information within Banner, including biographical, email addresses and phone numbers. On an a second tab, academic information including residency, citizenship, graduation date, degree seeking, and cumulative GPA is available.
• Account Summary – View total balance by semester. Including tuition, differential tuition, fees, parking, payments and financial aid accepted awards
• Register for Classes – Find and register for classes within a “cart” system, allowing students to add classes to a cart to compare and add classes. A simplified version of Add/Drop classes within Self Service Banner. Does not show as many details as easily, figure 1 example below. Students must select a semester before anything else, as it’s based on the current semester to show subjects and instructors.
• Registration Status – View student status, academic standing and holds based on the student’s academic progress. Also shows total credit hours taken.
• Financial Aid – Financial Aid breakdown by aid year for requirements, awards and account summary. Requirements will not link to the required forms, but they will be named for students to find them on the website or within the Forms page next.
• Financial Aid Forms – Links to the Self Service Banner Form outside the Portal for all financial aid forms the student may need to complete. – Students may be required to sign in again to access this.
• Holds – Shows all negative holds on a students account, including the advising hold.
• Class History – List of all classes the student has taken at CCC oldest to newest. Class History will also will show total credit hours, total passed hours, cumulative GPA.
• Transcripts – Links to the Transcripts Page within Self Service Banner with links to Parchment and Degreeworks.
• Grades – Breakdown per semester of Final Grades including Semester GPA and Cumulative GPA.
• GPA Calculator – GPA Calculator for students to type in their current GPA and classes they will take.
• Class Schedule – External link to the Self Service Banner Course List.

User Settings
In the top right of myCCC is an icon with the students name and a circle for an icon. By default, this circle icon will show the students initials. Clicking on this box will give three options.
Your Profile - Your profile will let the student edit their profile picture, edit connect interests, and view their name, email and phone number.

Preferences - Preferences allows the user to change how Connect and Messaging will contact them when a post is made.

Log Out - Signs the user out of the portal.

 

Enabling Email for Connect will send an email all posts made with an interest selected.
Messaging is for administrators to send an email and/or post on Connect to all users based on the announcement need. Users can enable to receive Email/SMS based on these posts.
Manage Favorites allows students to build a small Favorites section within the Main Menu for easy access to items.

Please review the following for information about the  AGEC.

Courses listed are from the most recent AGEC course list for Coconino Community College (2022-2023)

What is DegreeWorks?

DegreeWorks is a web-based, degree-auditing, and tracking tool that enables students and advisors to evaluate academic progress toward graduation in accordance with college and major requirements outlined in the Academic Catalog. This tool, located in your myCCC, allows students to quickly and easily identify which requirements have been satisfied and which requirements are outstanding for the degree or certificate they have declared.

How DegreeWorks Benefits Students

• Supports real-time delivery of progress toward degree completion
• Easily determines which courses have been taken or transferred, which count as electives and requirements, and what's outstanding to complete a degree
• Online environment reduces paperwork and manual degree checklists
• Confirms your academic standing
• "What If" feature shows students how progress toward degree completion changes if they add a minor or change majors.

Here is an easy to use  Student Guide to DegreeWorks. 

1.  Log into myCCC and click on the Registration link under the QuickLaunch Navigation menu in the middle of the page, then choose Register for Classes. 
   
   
   
2.  You will be redirected to the self-service registration menu, choose "Register for Classes."
   
   
   
3. The program will then have you log into Self Service for Banner. Sign in using your Comet ID and password.
   
   
   
4. Select the term that you are attempting to Add/Drop for and click Submit.
   

To Drop or Withdraw from Course(s):

1. You will see the courses you are already registered for in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

2. You will need to locate the action column in the Summary box.

3. For the courses you are wishing to drop/withdraw from, drop the action box down and select wither "Web Drop" or "Web Initiated Withdraw." (You will notice these options will change with the deadlines of the college)

4. Once you have selected "Web Drop" or "web initiated Withdraw," double check that you have done so for the correct course(s) you are wishing to drop/withdraw. When everything looks good click "Submit" in the lower right-hand corner of the summary box.

5. You will then see a change in the "Status" column of your summary box. Make sure that the Status states, "Dropped" or "Withdrawn" after you have completed the above steps.

To Search for and Add Course(s):

1. You can search for a course by the Subject of the course:

Or by the part-of-term - select Advanced Search and scroll to find "Part Of Term" and select the part-of-term you are searching for:

2. Once you have found the course you are wanting to register for, on the far-right side you can click "Add."

3. Once you have clicked "Add" - in the lower right-hand corner is your course summary. You will need to click Submit to change the status of the course from "Pending" to "Registered."

4. The course status will then change to green and state "Registered."

A note about Adding Courses: Once you have registered for a course, you are expected to pay your tuition, or to set up a payment plan for tuition, within 24 hours of registration. Students who have not made their necessary tuition payment may be dropped from their classes, per the drop schedule on the Student Accounts page . Students who are automatically dropped from a course for non-payment will receive email notification of the drop.

A note about Dropping Courses: Students receiving Financial Aid should speak to Financial Aid prior to dropping any course. The change in credit hours may affect your Financial Aid disbursal or may cause you to owe money back from already disbursed funds.

Step 1. Schedule an appointment with an advisor
Prior to digitally submitting a Change of Major form, students are highly encouraged to speak with an advisor to discuss major options and the academic implications it may have. Visit the Advising page to schedule an appointment with an Academic Advisor.

Step 2. Complete Change of Major Form
Log in using your CCC login credentials to complete the Change of Major Form.  
 

Step 3. Confirmation Email sent to the Student Email Address
A confirmation email will be sent to your student email address within 7 business days. You may check your degree status when you access your myCCC student portal by clicking the DegreeWorks icon in the QuickLaunch navigation box.
 

What is Canvas?

Canvas is a supplemental learning tool for online and in-person classes. Students are able to access assignments and exams, connect and chat with their instructor and classmates, view their grades for completed or past assignments, and participate in their classes online.