Student Administrative System

Advisors/Faculty Requesting an Undergraduate Degree Progress Report through Access.SMU Self-Service

The eDPR is an electronic Degree Progress Report (eDPR) that can be requested by students or advisors/faculty using Access.SMU. The DPR itself will not appear in Access.SMU. It will be e-mailed to the person requesting it at his/her campus e-mail account.

The following instructions explain how an advisor/faculty member may request a student’s DPR through Self Service.

Processing an eDPR

A. Faculty

After logging into Access.SMU, look for the Faculty Self-Service pagelet. Click on the Faculty Center link:

Click on the Advisement tab, then click on the New Drop-In Advisees button.

B. Advisor or Faculty

Navigate to the following page: Self Service, Advisement, New/Drop-In Advisees

Requesting the Report

Click on the Search button to select a student.

Search page

What to Do

Enter the SMU ID of the student for whom you are requesting the report.

Click on the Lookup button.

Select the student.

This brings you back to the New/Drop-In Advisees page, now displaying the student's name.

New/Drop-In Advisees page
What to Do
Student Details	Click on the down arrow, and click on Degree Progress.

Click on the change button to go to the next page.

Complete the page using these instructions:

Degree Progress Report page
Field Name	What to Do
Academic Institution	Defaults to Southern Methodist University. Leave as is.
Report Type	Defaults to Degree Progress Report.
Go	Click on Go to process the request.

After clicking on Go, you will see “Processing” blinking on the upper right side of the screen. When the processing is complete, you will see the following screen:

Note: If this screen does not appear, the Degree Progress Report has not been sent to your SMU email account. The process must be repeated to obtain an eDPR.

You cannot run a degree progress report for students who are not in an active status due to graduation, suspension, etc. You may still run an unofficial transcript. If you try to run a degree progress report, you will receive the following message: