Workday Student Glossary
Browse and search common Workday Student terms and definitions to quickly understand the language you’ll see across registration, academics, and your student record. This glossary helps translate Workday terminology into familiar GVSU concepts, making it easier to navigate tasks and find the right information when you need it.
| GVSU Term | Workday Term | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow | Business Process (BP) | Automated workflow that routes tasks to designated users. |
| Time tickets, Scheduling Priority | Registration appointments | The specific dates and times when a student is allowed to start registering for classes. |
| Tentative Schedule | Saved Schedule | Tentative schedule determined by student ahead of registration, contains course sections wants to take for given semester. Placing a class in a saved schedule does not guarantee the student a seat. |
| Substitution, Waiver | Academic Override | Allows one course to be swapped for another to meet a specific academic requirement. |
| Student Profile | Student Profile | Central location for information specific to a student, including contact and personal information, academic details, holds, and financial information. |
| Student Academic Record | Academic Record | Collection of student's academic activities (GPA, registrations, academic history), at specific level. |
| Semester | Academic Period | Typically referred to as term, a length of time with defined start and end dates (i.e. Fall semester, Winter semester, Summer semester). Also includes accelerated sessions within a semester. |
| Registered, Actively enrolled | Registered | Registered for classes |
| Pre-requisite Override | Eligibility Override | Request made to exclude a student from a specific requirement. |
| Pre-requisite, Eligibility Rule | Eligibility Rule | Defines who is eligible to take a course, such as pre-requisites. |
| N/A | Related Actions Button (Ellipsis / "Twinkie") | When you scroll to the right of many headings or subheadings in Workday, there appears what looks like an elongated circle with three dots. There are many additional functions or information available when clicking into this. |
| MyPath | Academic Progress | A list of requirements to complete the student's program of study (major, minor, certificate, badge). The report indicates which requirements are satisfied, in progress and not satisfied. |
| Midterm Grade | Interim Grade | A check-in grade provided by the instructor roughly midway through the term. The grade is not part of the student's permanent academic record and does not factor into the GPA. |
| Major | Program of Study | Student's educational objective, used to organize course requirements. Workday requires one program of study to be the primary program, defined by the first active program that a student matriculates into. |
| Hold | Hold | A tag on a student's account that may restrict the ability to register and/or receive pertinent account information such as diplomas. |
| Guardian/Family Access | Friends and Family | Persons identified by the student who have permission to access their student record. |
| Graduation/Degree Completion | Program Completion | Confirms a student has met all academic requirements and any special conditions for a prograam. The student becomes eligible for graduation processing. |
| Grading Mode | Grading Basis | Identifies how an instructor will assign grades. Generally classes have a Graded basis that allows A-F. The alternative is credit/no credit. |
| Free Electives | Unused Registrations | Courses that do not fulfill any academic requirements. |
| Four-Year Curricular Guides | Academic Plan | Optional tool to help students plan out what courses they should take during an academic period (semester) to satisfy academic requirements for their program of study (major). |
Page last modified February 11, 2026