Why Add Hypothetical Courses?

1. Run and view an audit like you normally would.
2. On the left-hand side of the audit, you will notice a ‘Hypothetical Courses’ section. At the bottom of this section, you will see ‘Courses to add’ and a blank box beside it.
3. Add the hypothetical course code in the box (i.e. ENGL 1000)
4. Make sure ‘Add Hypothetical Courses’ is appearing in the drop-down menu. Click ‘Go’ and the course should appear above the black text (You will need to submit another audit to view these courses in the audit).
5. Go back to MyAudit in Carleton Central and click ‘submit an audit.’
6. Check the ‘include hypothetical courses?’ box and click ‘run an audit.’
7. Click on ‘view submitted audits’ and double click on the red link to view your audit with hypothetical courses.

Due to the unprecedented challenge posed by COVID-19, the Carleton University Senate approved the use of Satisfactory (SAT) and Unsatisfactory (UNS) grades for the winter 2020 term. Students now have the choice, at their discretion, to convert any or all of their passing winter 2020 term grades to the alternative notation SAT.  For more information on this alternate grading measure, please visit our SAT/UNS Frequently Asked Questions page.

You can use the Hypothetical Course(s) and Grade(s) option in your audit to determine how opting for SAT instead of a letter grade will impact your progress in your program, your CGPAs, your graduation eligibility if you have applied to graduate, and so on.

1. Run and view an audit like you normally would.
2. On the left-hand side of the audit, you will notice a ‘Hypothetical Courses’ section. At the bottom of this section, you will see ‘Courses to add’ and a blank box beside it.
3. Add a course or courses for which you wish to see how a grade of Satisfactory (SAT) or Unsatisfactory (UNS) will impact your program.  Enter each course you would like to review and click ‘Go’.  The course(s) will now appear in your Hypothetical Courses list.
4. For each course for which you wish to add a hypothetical grade in order to test how it will affect your program, you can click on it to access the ‘Edit Your Course’ feature.  To test how a notation of SAT will impact your program, click on the Grade dropdown field and select ‘HSAT’.  Now click ‘Submit Edit’.  You can repeat this step for any hypothetical course to which you would like to add a hypothetical grade.  Assigning grades to the hypothetical course(s) will determine how your CGPAs will change if you obtain that grade.
5. Once you are finished adding hypothetical courses and grades, go back to MyAudit in Carleton Central and click ‘submit an audit.’
6. Check the ‘include hypothetical courses?’ box and click ‘run an audit.’
7. Click on ‘view submitted audits’ and double click on the red link to view your audit with hypothetical grades.  You should now see the hypothetical courses sitting in your audit in place of your actual registration, where the hypothetical courses will count in your program, and the effect on your CGPAs.

When using the hypothetical courses tool on your audit, if courses appear to be set aside, are sitting incorrectly in your degree requirements, or if you require assistance in making a decision on whether to select SAT grades over letter grades, please feel free to contact the Academic Advising Centre once all of your final grades have been posted. They are happy to assist you with reviewing your audit, and providing you with recommendations to help you with your decision.

NOTE: All hypothetical courses will remain on your audit until you delete them. If you do not delete them your audit would be inaccurate in showing how many credits you have remaining. You can delete hypothetical courses by selecting the course that you want to delete (place a checkmark beside the course you want to delete) and clicking the “delete hypothetical courses” button. The courses will remain on the audit until another audit is run.