Personal Study Plan (PSP)

Steps for Creating and Submitting Your PSP

1. Select the studies you plan to complete during your studies and include them in your PSP (both Haaga-Helia studies and studies completed through the Cross-Institutional Study Service).
2. Make sure your studies are scheduled throughout your entire study period and that the schedule reflects your current study plan. A study schedule must be completed before your PSP can be approved.
3. Submit your PSP for approval to your academic advisor by the deadline specified in the student's annual calendar. Have your PSP approved once per semester. Your PSP must be approved on time, as this affects the acceptance of course enrolment requests.

See the curricula required for planning your studies here.

Other PSP Functions

1. You can read messages related to your PSP and credit transfers:
   • Select the Messages tab.
   • View messages by selecting a message type: PSP Tasks, PSP Approvals, Entries or Agreements
   • Responding to a PSP Task
     • Open the PSP task by selecting the subject line of the message.
     • Complete the required fields.
     • Select Send.
2. You can enroll for course implementations.
   • Instructions for implementation enrolment
   • For more information about registration and late registration, see the Degree Regulations
3. You can submit credit transfer applications.
   • Instructions for completing the credit transfer application form

You can view your Personal Study Plan (PSP) from the PSP menu. Your study plan is based on the curriculum of your degree programme. To access your PSP, select PSP from the navigation bar at the top of the Peppi Student Desktop.

PSP

On the PSP tab, you can monitor your study progress, plan your studies, download your transcript of records, send your PSP for comments or approval, view notes related to your PSP and follow the latest changes made to your PSP.

The PSP tab always displays the current version of your PSP. If you have more than one study right at Haaga-Helia, select the study right whose PSP you wish to view from the menu under your name in the upper-right corner of the page.

You can download a transcript of records in PDF format by selecting Download Transcript of Records (PDF) on the PSP tab. You can expand or collapse the PSP structure using the arrow icons on the left-hand side. You can also use the Expand All / Collapse All button to open or close all sections at once.

Viewing PSP Versions

Using the Select PSP Version drop-down menu, you can view previously approved or deleted PSP versions. However, all editing is done in the Draft version. Once you submit your PSP for approval and it has been approved, the system automatically creates a new draft version that you can continue editing. In an approved PSP version, you can review the studies you have planned for the upcoming semester. To view an approved version, select APPROVED from the PSP Version menu. Please note that approved versions cannot be edited. All changes must be made in the Draft version. You can plan and manage your study schedule on the Schedule tab of your PSP.

PSP Information Panel

Select the question mark icon above the PSP structure on the right-hand side of the page to view explanations of the symbols used in the PSP.

You can also see the meaning of a symbol by hovering your mouse pointer over it.

Course Status

On the PSP tab, you can see whether a course is compulsory, elective, or optional.

The coloured box on the left side of each course row indicates the course type:

• Orange: Compulsory
• Light blue: Elective
• Dark blue: Optional
• Yellow: Course provided by another institution

NOTE! The course type information may occasionally be incorrect. You can verify the course status in the Study Guide.

The icon displayed to the left of the course name indicates the completion status of the course. You can view the meaning of each icon through the question mark menu or by hovering over the icon.

Viewing Descriptions of Study Modules and Courses

• Viewing a Study Module Description
  • Select the name of the study module.
  • A separate window opens displaying the details of the module.
  • Close the window by pressing Esc on your keyboard, selecting the X in the upper-right corner, or selecting Cancel.
• Viewing a Course Description
  • Select the course name.
  • A separate window opens displaying the course details.
  • Close the window by pressing Esc on your keyboard, selecting the X in the upper-right corner, or selecting Cancel.
• Viewing Planned Credits in a Study Module
  • You can compare the number of planned credits against the required credits by viewing the credit ratio shown for each study module.
  • NOTE: If no courses have been selected within a study module, the module heading may incorrectly display the planned credits as equal to the required credits. The planned credits will update correctly once courses are added to the module.
     

Sending Your PSP for Comments or Approval

You can send a draft PSP version to your academic advisor either for comments or for approval. Select either Send Message About PSP or Send for Approval, depending on the action you wish to take. These options are available on both the PSP and Edit PSP tabs. In the pop-up window add your academic advisor as the recipient, enter a subject, write your message and select Send. You can read and review messages on the Messages tab of your PSP.

Adding Notes to a Course or Study Module

• To add a note to a course or study module:
  • Select the + icon if there are no existing notes, or select the speech bubble icon on the right side of the row to add to an existing note.
  • Complete the required fields.
  • Select Send. The note will be visible in the student's PSP and on the advisor's desktop. If no recipient is specified, the note will only be visible to you.

• You can add missing courses to your PSP through the Editing the PSP tab
• First find the study module on your PSP where you wish to include the course, and then click on the magnifying glass icon next to the study module.
• This will open a window where you can search for courses offered by Haaga-Helia, and add them to your PSP.
• Enter a course’s or study module's name or code in the search field and select Search.
• You can filter the search results by choosing search criteria from the menu on the left under sections Type of study, Type of education, Degree programme, Degree title, Field of education and Study's status.
• Select from the search results the course or study module that you want to add to your PSP and click on Add to basket on the same row.

Firstly, check the code for your major studies in the Study guide. You can find the code in your degree programme’s curricula.

• Click on the navigation menu on the left to select the type of the degree programme (e.g. "Bachelor studies from August 2022 onwards). The Finnish language degree programmes can be found on the Finnish pages of the Study Guide.
• Select the field of your education from the drop-down menu (e.g. "Business, Administration and Law") and then select your degree programme (e.g. INTBBA). Note: there can be a slowness in the loading of the view.
• Under the Curricula heading, select the academic year in which you have started and click the timing plan to open the curriculum structure view. The majors and the courses belonging to them can be found in the structure under the heading “Major”.
• You can see the major's code to the right of the major's name in the “Code” column.

The major studies are added under the heading “Major”. NOTE! You can only choose one major. Your guidance counsellor will add the major also to your student data based on the major studies that you have added to your PSP. You can find instructions on viewing your personal data here. The major affects in which order students are accepted on implementations during the enrolment. According to the degree regulations, in professional competences priority in implementations is given to students whose major the course belongs to.

• Go to the “Major” heading (editing the PSP tab) and click on the magnifying glass icon on the same row.
• This will open a window where you can search for studies, and add them to your PSP under the heading.
• Enter the major’s code that you found in the study guide and select Search.
• First find the study module on your PSP where you wish to include the course, and then click on the magnifying glass icon next to the study module. This will open a window where you can search for courses offered by Haaga-Helia, and add them to your PSP.
• Select from the search results the major, which has the same code by selecting Add to basket.
• Select on the top right corner Add selected to PSP. 

Other professional competence studies than major studies and minor package studies are added under the heading ”Complementary Professional Competences”.

• ​​​Go to the ”Complementary Professional Competencies” heading and click on the magnifying glass icon on the same row.
• This will open a window where you can search for studies, and add them to your PSP under the heading.
• Enter a course’s name or code in the search field and select Search.
• You can filter the search results by choosing search criteria from the menu on the left, for example “Type of study”.
• Select from the search results the course that you want to add to your PSP and click on Add to basket on the same row.
• Select on the top right corner Add selected to PSP.  

NOTE! If you have started your studies in an English degree programme in August 2022 or afterwards or a Finnish degree programme in January 2022 and afterwards, you cannot have more than 15 credits of level 0 studies in your PSP (prev. level 4).

Level 0 studies include:

• Other than basic or professional competences-level studies.
• Haaga-Helia’s studies that are on trial phase or nonrecurring studies marked as level 0. You can see a course’s level from the last number in the course code, for example: AVI001AS0AE.

Levels:

0. Other than basic or professional competences-level studies and trial phase or nonrecurring studies
1. Key competences
2. Professional competences, incl. language studies that are part of professional competences
3. More advanced professional competences that require previous professional competences

The minor package studies, which consist of multiple courses, are added under the heading “Minor package”. The minor package is shown under its own heading on the transcript of records. You can find the minor packages from the study guide under the heading “Minor packages, study modules, summer studies and other studies”.

• Go to the “Minor package” heading in your PSP and click on the magnifying glass icon on the same row.
• This will open a window where you can search for studies, and add them to your PSP under the heading.
• Enter a minor package’s name or code in the search field and select Search.
• From the menu on the left, under “Type of study” choose “Separate Study Module”.
• Select from the search results the Minor Package that you want to add to your PSP and click on Add to basket on the same row.
• Select on the top right corner Add selected to PSP. 

NOTE! If there are no courses selected for the study module, the study module's planned scope shows falsely the same amount of credits as the required scope. Once you have added courses to the study module, then the planned scope shows the correct amount.

Each student’s PSP includes the studies specified in the degree programme’s curriculum, except for Complementary Professional Competencies, which students add individually under the appropriate heading in the PSP as their studies progress.

Complementary Professional Competencies can consist of studies from other specialisations or additional studies within your own specialisation. Master's degree programmes offer also complementary professional competencies that don't belong to any specific specialisation (check the study guide). 

You can add only studies from Haaga-Helia or Cross-Study Service (RIPA) to your PSP. Studies completed at other higher education institutions must be applied for credit transfer after their completion. Only Master-level studies can be included in the degree's Complementary Professional Competencies.

• Go to the “Complementary Professional Competencies” heading in your PSP and click on the magnifying glass icon on the same row.
• This will open a window where you can search for studies, and add them to your PSP under the heading.
• Enter a course’s name or code in the search field and select Search.
• Make sure that the course code corresponds to that of a Master-level course. Courses with the same name may be offered at both Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. A Master-level course code can be identified by its numbering, which starts with the number 7, and by the letter Y at the end of the code, e.g. ANA701HH1Y(E). The letter E at the end of the code indicates that the course is taught in English.
• You can filter your search on the left column by selecting Master level under the heading Type of education.
• Add the courses you want into the basket with Add to basket at the end of the row.
• Select on the top right corner Add selected to PSP.

NOTE! If there are no courses selected for the study module, the study module's planned scope shows falsely the same amount of credits as the required scope. Once you have added courses to the study module, then the planned scope shows the correct amount.

Select the Scheduling the PSP tab from the top menu of PSP. The Scheduling the PSP tab allows you to schedule the studies in your PSP for your study period. You can view the scheduling plan by academic year, semester or period, and if you wish, you can also view the summer term. In the scheduling plan, you mark the dates when you intend to complete the courses in your PSP.

Create a template schedule plan in PSP as follows:

• You can select a template schedule plan from the drop-down menu above the schedule plan.
• Press the Create Schedules button. NOTE! Creating schedules in the template schedule plan will overwrite any changes previously made to the schedule plan.
   

How to schedule on the timeline: 

1. Schedule individual studies
   • Drag the course to the desired location on the timeline
2. Change the schedule of individual studies
   • Drag the course to the desired location on the timeline
3. Remove the schedule of individual studies
   • Drag the course on the timeline back to the structure shown on the left
4. Viewing mandatory courses that are not scheduled
   • Select the clock symbol above the structure
   • Click Show all to remove the filter

The scheduling view is based on your study entitlement, meaning that only the periods in which you have the right to study are active. You can also place studies in the gray area.

If you register as absent, additional periods will be added to the timeline by the amount of time you are absent. When your study entitlement is extended, the periods on the timeline will increase by the periods of the given extension period. You cannot transfer studies to the period of absence.
 

Settings and views of the Scheduling tab:

• You can view schedules at different levels of detail by selecting either Academic years / Semesters / Periods from the top menu
• You can include Summer periods in the timeline by selecting Show Summer periods
• You can move around the timeline by rolling the mouse scroll wheel in the desired direction or by grabbing the horizontal scroll bar and moving it to the desired position.
• You can also add your own notes to the timeline, if, for example, you know that you will be absent or doing an internship during a certain semester. Please note that an absence note is not an official notification of absence. The best way to schedule your own note is to click on the Add note icon with the mouse and drag it to the right place on the timeline and add the reason for the absence.

Once you have completed your study plan, send it to your guidance counsellor for approval:

• Click on the Send for approval button at the top of the page.
• This will open a window that has your guidance counsellor as the default recipient. In case their name is missing, you can also type it there yourself.
• Write the message and select Send. NOTE! Add your name to the message so that the guidance counsellor will know from whom the message came. The sender's information is not added to the e-mails about Peppi's messages.

NOTE! The PSP is approved only once a semester before the first round of admission. Students will be informed about the schedule for PSP approval. Approval of the PSP affects the acceptance of course enrollments. If you submit your PSP for approval after the deadline, it can still be approved, but it will not affect to the above-mentioned enrollments.

Please do not send your PSP for approval if you have not made any changes to it after the latest approval.

If needed, you can also send your PSP for comments to your guidance counsellor:

• Choose Send message from PSP.
• Fill in the fields.
• Choose Send. NOTE! Add your name to the message so that the guidance counsellor will know from whom the message came. The sender's information is not added to the e-mails about Peppi's messages.

NOTE! The information on whether a course is compulsory may occasionally be incorrect. You can verify whether a course is compulsory in the Study Guide.

NOTE! If you want to remove studies from your PSP, make sure you remove the correct item. Removing a heading will also remove all studies listed under that heading.
 

Removing Elective and Optional Courses

You can remove unnecessary elective and optional courses from your PSP on the Edit PSP tab. Open the Edit PSP tab, locate the course you want to remove and select the trash bin icon next to the course.
 

Removing Compulsory Studies

Students cannot remove compulsory studies from their PSP themselves. These removals must be made by an academic advisor. You can send a removal request to your academic advisor as follows:

• On either the PSP tab or the Edit PSP tab, select Send Message About PSP.
• Add your academic advisor as the recipient.
• Enter a subject for the message.
• In the message, include:
  • the name of the course, and
  • the course code of the compulsory course you would like to have removed
• Select Send.