Connect with your Honors advisor to discuss the Honors Scholar in the Major requirements.

• What classes have you taken or will you take in your major or related? Which courses can you use on your Honors Plan?
• Have you checked your transcript to be sure Honors credit has been posted for all previous Honors work? Any issues, email honors@uconn.edu.
• What course/courses are used toward your thesis or creative project?
• What will you do to meet the Engagement in the Major Field requirement? Be specific: activities, success criteria, deadlines. 
• If you are completing the University Honors Laureate award as well, your advisor should be able to help you determine how to complete the course requirements. You may find this planning worksheet helpful. If you have any questions about the co-curricular requirements (Events, Academic in Action, and Leadership Experience), contact the Honors GPS team.
• Optional Worksheets:
  • Honors Scholar (HS) and University Honors Laureate (UHL) designation, you may use the HS & UHL worksheet to help prepare for the online form. The worksheet is not required and will not be submitted, but you can use it to outline how you plan to complete the University Honors Laureate credit and distribution requirements.
  • Honors Scholar (HS) only designation, you may use this Honors Scholar worksheet to help prepare for the online form.  The worksheet is not required and will not be submitted.
• Approval: Your Honors advisor will be responsible for approving your HS plan on behalf of your major department. If you are completing both HS & UHL, you will need to complete both sections of the online before you submit, but your advisor will not need to specifically approve the UHL section.
  • Honors Advisor Instructions: Honors advisor review and approval instructions found here.
• Final Approval: The Honors Program will complete the final review of Honors plans for HS & UHL for official approval.

If you have more than one major, discuss the Honors Scholar in the Major requirements with each of your Honors advisors.

The Honors Preliminary Plan of Study is completed in Quest.

1. Go to the Honors Plan program in Quest.
2. If the green button to the right says LOG IN TO APPLY, click the "Log in" menu in the top right and select "UConn Single Sign-on"
   
3. Once you are signed in, click the green APPLY button to start your Preliminary Plan.

You should only do the above steps once. Once you have started your Preliminary Plan, you should go to the main Quest page and sign in to view your applications to any Quest program, including Honors Plan.

When you first create your Preliminary Plan in Quest, there are four tasks visible, but only one of them can be edited: Student Information. 

Because the Student Information task is where you specify whether you are completing University Honors Laureate as well as how many Honors majors you have, you must complete it first. Once you have completed it, the other visible tasks will become editable, and other tasks may be added.

Each task consists of a single form, which may be one or more pages long. At the bottom of each page, you may find the following buttons:

• Save and Continue Editing: Use this periodically to save your progress on a long form. You can also use it to save your responses before exiting.
• Mark as Complete: Think of this like a "submit" button. The task will be marked complete and you'll go back to the main screen.
• Next: Will be visible instead of "Mark as Complete" when you are not on the last page of the form.
• Previous: Will be visible when you are not on the first page of the form.

The "application name" (not your name, by default) is what will appear in your advisor's portal. So that advisors can sort and find Preliminary Plans, all students should name their applications using the format LastName, FirstName.

1. If you are currently viewing a task, click the Save & continue editing button and then the Back to application link (top left).
2. Click the … menu at the top right of the application and choose Rename.
   
3. The system prompts with Last Name, First Name. Click OK when done.
   

After you have completed all of the fields on your Honors Plan and are ready to submit, you will need to add your Honors advisor as a collaborator. This will allow them to see your Plan at all stages of the process, but they cannot edit Honors Advisor Approval task until you add them as collaborator AND submit your form.  Please do not add them as a Collaborator before you are ready to submit!

1. Go to the Honors Advisors by School or College page to make sure that you know who your Honors advisor(s) is/are for your Honors major(s) and to check for special instructions for your major(s). Some majors may require that you add two collaborators to your Preliminary Plan.
2. Using the UConn phonebook, look up your advisor to be sure you are using the correct UConn email address for them.  Only @uconn.edu addresses will work in the Quest system.
3. If you are currently viewing a task, click the Save & continue editing button and then the Back to application link (top left).
4. Click the Add collaborator button (bottom left)
   
5. Enter the @uconn.edu email address(es) that you found in step 2 above. Make sure that advisors are being given View & edit access.

Troubleshooting: If your advisor has not received the invitation, you can click on the three . . . and remove them as a collaborator and add them again.  If they are still having trouble, you can remove them as a collaborator again and add them back again, this action resends the email invitation required for them to access your form. Ask them to check their SPAM/Junk folder for the message. After opening quest.uconn.edu, logging in with UConn Single Sign-on and choosing the "Applicant" role, advisors must click "Join now" within their Request to Collaborate email to be able to view your plan.

In order to submit your Preliminary Plan to your advisor(s) for approval, all of the visible tasks must be marked complete.
Instructions for reviewing and submitting an application in Quest.

When you submit the Preliminary Plan, the status will be displayed as Advisor: Preliminary Plan Review. If your advisor has already accepted your invitation to collaborate, they will be sent an email indicating that the plan is ready for their review. Otherwise, they should see that it is ready for review once they accept the invitation.

While your advisor(s) review your Preliminary Plan, you can open and view the application, but you cannot edit it.

You will be sent email if your plan is returned for revision, if you need to add additional collaborators, and when it is approved by your advisor(s) and sent to the Honors Program. Your Preliminary Plan's status will also begin with the role of the person(s) who should act upon it.

If your Preliminary Plan has the status Student: Revision Needed, see the instructions on Responding to a Request for Revision.

If your Preliminary Plan of Study has the status Advisor: Preliminary Plan Review:

• After 1 week, you will receive an email suggesting that you follow up with your advisor. Before you do so, log into your plan to check to see if your advisor(s) have accepted your invitation to collaborate.
• If under your advisor's name it says "Invited" (see below), they have not accepted the Invitation to Collaborate
• Please be sure you have double checked their email in the UConn Phonebook, to be sure you are sending it to the correct @uconn.edue address and you should go into the Quest system, click on "..." remove them as a collaborator and then use the Add button to add them back in, which resends the invitation.
• If your advisor has not accepted the invitation and they cannot find the email, use the "..." button to delete them and then the Add button to re-add them, which resends the invitation.
• If your advisor shows View only instead of View & edit, use the ... button to Change access.
• After you add them as a collaborator, please also email them to let them know a request has been sent and to look for it in their spam/junk folder from noreply@mail.smapply.net.
• Advisors must be able to locate the invitation to collaborate email for each of their advisees as part of their approval process.  

When an invitation is sent, the collaborator list (bottom left on the application list) shows the email address, Invited and the date:

Once the invitation is accepted, the collaborator list shows the name and email address:

You can also check to see if there has been any progress on any of the Honors Advisor Approval tasks in the Preliminary Plan Advisor Review stage. This is particularly important if you have more than one major and need to determine which one(s) still need approval.