How to Access Degree Works

Login to LoLA at https://my.lctcs.edu/
Select the Student tab at the top of the page
Select Degree Works Dashboard in the Registration Tools Box

What is Degree Works?

Degree Works is a web-based tool for students to monitor their academic progress toward degree completion. It is designed to enhance the academic advising process and is not intended to replace face-to-face meetings with your advisor.

How to Read your Audit:

Your Degree Works audit will always automatically default to the student view.

The first section that you will read under the Bossier Parish Comm College Degree Works header is your information. In this section you can see your student ID number, name, currently declared degree or major, any applicable concentrations, and Overall GPA.
The next section under the Degree Progress header is your Degree Progress bars. As you complete requirements, these percentages will update and the bars will fill up to provide you a quick look at your progress so far.
The next section begins listing requirements needed to complete your degree. This section will only show how many credit hours are needed for the degree and how credit hours are currently being applied so far. This information is provided in the top right hand corner of the maroon bar or in the remark after "Still Needed:" in this section.
The next section will show a breakdown of all of the course requirements needed for your major. Exactly the same as the previous section is the credit hours requirement. The next requirement will show the residency requirement or the number of classes that you need to complete here at BPCC. And next will show that you must have a 2.0 or a C or higher in all of your required classes. Finally, you will see a list of course requirements.
- Any courses that you have already successfully completed will be checked off with a green check mark. Refer to the legend and you will see that the green check mark shows for completed requirements. To the left of the green check mark, the audit will list what class was used to complete the requirement, the grade that was earned in the class, the credit hours, and the semester the course was taken.
- Any In-Progress or Pre-registered courses are highlighted in blue and will have the blue box appear. To the right of the requirement, the audit will list what class will be used to complete the requirement, an ‘EN’ indicating “enrolled”, expected credit hours, and the term that the class is expected to be registered in.
- Any course requirements that still need to be completed will be highlighted in red and with an empty red check box.
- For any course or requirement that still needs to be completed, you can click on the name of the class and a new pop-up window will appear. This new pop-up window will show a course description, attributes associated with that class, and all sections for current or future terms that may be available for registration. You can also click on any attribute links to get a list of all classes that have an attribute, their course descriptions, and sections for current or future terms that may be available for registration. (Please note that since there is such a large amount of courses that have these attributes, it may take a few minutes for the system to pull such a large amount of information.)
Depending on your major, you may also have a note or section for a pathway or concentration on your audit. Not every program has a pathway or concentration, however, some programs have specific pathways or concentrations that will have different requirements. If you are in a program that has a pathway or concentration and you do not see pathway or concentration requirements, or you see the wrong pathway or concentration, please contact the Admissions Office to find out how you can declare the correct one.
Your audit may have a few sections that will show courses that cannot be used for your audit or In-Progress Courses
- The Non-Program Courses section will show courses that were passed with a C or higher but could not be used to satisfy requirements for your major.
- The Insufficient section will show courses were grades below a C, W's, or WN's were earned. This section may also show courses that were not used because the course was repeated.
- The In-Progress section will show currently enrolled or future classes.

Please click the Next button for more information about Degree Works and how to view your audit in different ways!