uAchieve Planner
Academic advising software
Education software
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What is uAchieve Planner
uAchieve Planner is an academic planning and degree pathway tool used by higher-education institutions to help students and advisors build term-by-term course plans aligned to program requirements. It typically works alongside a degree audit system to translate requirements into actionable academic plans and scenarios (e.g., major changes or alternative course selections). The product is used by academic advisors, registrars, and students for planning, advising appointments, and progress-to-degree conversations. It is commonly deployed in environments that need structured planning tied to institutional curriculum and rules.
Degree-requirement aligned planning
The product focuses on building academic plans that map to institutional program requirements rather than generic course lists. This supports advising workflows where students need to see how planned courses satisfy specific requirements over time. It is well-suited to institutions that require structured, rules-based planning tied to curriculum data. This alignment can reduce manual interpretation of catalogs during advising sessions.
Scenario and what-if planning
uAchieve Planner supports planning scenarios that help students and advisors evaluate changes such as switching majors, adding minors, or adjusting course sequences. This is useful for advising conversations that involve tradeoffs (time-to-degree, prerequisite chains, and term availability). Scenario planning can also support proactive interventions when a student’s plan deviates from requirements. These capabilities are commonly expected in planning tools that complement degree audit processes.
Institutional advising workflow fit
The product is designed for higher-education advising use cases, including advisor review of student plans and structured plan approval processes where implemented. It can serve multiple stakeholders (students, advisors, and administrative offices) with a shared planning artifact. This helps standardize planning practices across departments. It is particularly relevant for institutions that emphasize guided pathways and consistent degree maps.
Integration-dependent value
The product’s effectiveness depends heavily on the quality and completeness of curriculum, requirement, and course data provided by institutional systems. Implementations often require integration with student information systems and degree audit rules to deliver accurate planning outputs. If upstream data is inconsistent, plans can become difficult to trust and maintain. Institutions should expect integration and data-governance work as part of adoption.
Configuration and maintenance effort
Rules-based planning typically requires ongoing configuration to reflect catalog changes, new programs, and evolving policies. Institutions may need specialized functional and technical resources to maintain mappings, templates, and planning logic. This can increase total cost of ownership compared with lighter-weight advising tools. The effort is more pronounced in institutions with frequent curriculum updates.
Narrower scope than suites
uAchieve Planner primarily addresses academic planning and advising-related planning workflows rather than providing a broad student success platform, CRM, or full student information system. Institutions seeking an end-to-end suite may need additional products for case management, communications, recruitment, or analytics. This can lead to a more complex application landscape. Buyers should validate how planning outputs flow into other student success processes.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription (uAchieve Cloud including uAchieve Planner) | Custom pricing — contact sales | Subscription-based; vendor states "predictable subscription pricing" and that pricing is customized per institution. Includes scalable platform, performance & security monitoring, data backup and disaster recovery, cyclical upgrades, and 40 hours of included support per subscription. |
| uAchieve Encoding Primer (training) | $399 per person | 6-hour workshop; group discounts available. |
| uAchieve Encoding Workshop (multi-day) | $1,199 per person | In-depth multi-day virtual workshops; group discounts available. |
| Advanced Topics Workshop | $350 per person | 3–4 hour focused workshops; group discounts available. |
| Mentorship Program | $6,500 per person (6 months) or $12,750 per person (12 months) | Individualized mentorship offering (pricing listed on site). |
Seller details
Leepfrog Technologies, Inc.
Austin, Texas, USA
1994
Private
https://www.leepfrog.com/
https://x.com/LeepfrogTech
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leepfrog-technologies/
