For instance, there are two doughnut charts showing how many courses you currently have on the "Tracking" page and the "Planning" page.  You can click on either one of these headers to navigate to those respective pages, or you can use the menu at the top of the page for navigation.

There is another doughnut chart showing how many "Badges" you have earned.  The badges are rewarded when you fulfill certain requirements at HES, such as fulfilling all of the "Science" requirements.

The final doughnut chart shows you how many courses you have currently reviewed, and how many courses it is possible for you to review while you pursue your degree.  

There is also a list of all of the courses you have on both the "Tracking" and "Planning" pages on the Dashboard where it is labeled "Complete Course Summary (Tracked and Planned)."  

Whenever you create a new course, that course will go to the "Planning" page until you give that course a status of "Completed."  Once the course's status is set to "Completed", it will get transferred off of the "Planning" page and on to the "Tracking" page.  The "Tracking" page keeps track of all of the courses that you have completed.

A course must be marked as "Complete" when you created (or edited) the course for it to appear on the "Tracking" page.  

All of the statistical information on the "Tracking" page reflects only the courses you have completed at HES.  Thus the "Tracking" page allows you to see your current situation at HES and all of the degree requirements you have fulfilled.  

The "Tracking" page also reflects any tests or transfer credit that you have marked as "Completed."  You can create tests and transfer credit "courses" by clicking on any of the "Create a new course" buttons.

Only two fields are required to be filled out on the "Create Course" page:  a course title, and a course instructor's name.  As soon as you start typing in the course title, all of HES' courses will appear as the Degree Tracker searches for the right course.  When you find the course you're searching for, notice that the instructor's name is included as part of the result.  Just type that instructor's name into the Tracker and feel free to fill out the rest of the information as much or as little as you like.  

If you've already completed a course, set its status to "Completed HES course."  This will make the course appear on the "Tracking" page of the Degree Tracker.  The "Tracking" page is where only the courses that you have already finished appear.

If you haven't completed the course yet, feel free to leave its "status" field as blank, or select one of the other options.  These courses will appear on the "Planning" page of the Degree Tracker.  Here is where you plan out your future courses at HES.

When you finish a course at HES, just "edit" that course in the Tracker and change its status field to "Completed HES course."  Then it will be automatically switched from the "Planning" page to the "Tracking" page.