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100 Transfer Students Processed in 17 Hours by One Counselor
November 29, 2010
A college asked us to demonstrate that our system truly is the fastest degree auditing system of its kind. They sent 100 adult learners with transfer courses, military training and college exams to consider.
In only 17 hours time, every one of the students were accurately processed, with educational assessments and degree plans created for the college, all done by one counselor.
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More Than 400,000 Assessments & Degree Plans Sent to Students
November 29, 2010
We've reached another milestone: More than 400,000 Comprehensive Education Assessments and Degree Plans from hundreds of colleges have been created with our state-of-the-art systems and sent to students across the nation!
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Assigning multiple subjects to one equivalence
The American Council on Education often recommends less than 3 semester hours to the subjects it presents for the military training or occupations it has evaluated. When this happens, there are cases when a course-to-course articulation results in a shortage of credit, as shown below:
Notice how the credit in Business Communication that is highlighted above for the Navy Enlisted Rating is only valued at 2 semester hours, yet the equivalent course offered by the receiving college requires a total of 3 semester hours. How can this be addressed? First, take a look at the first line under the Excess or Duplicate Credit section - 1 semester hour in Business & Professional Communication. That credit line can be easily dragged and dropped just below the Business Communication credit, as shown below:
By doing so, you have now made up for the total credit required of 3 semester hours for a true course equivalency - in this case, not a course-to-course equivalence, but a courses-to-course equivalence.
What does the student see?
The presentation of the course equivalences on the degree plans
The views presented above are what we call the Optimization Window, in which the counselor at the receiving college fine tunes the placement of credit earned by the student into the degree requirements of the program of study desired by the student. Only the counselor sees this screen. What the student sees is the easy-to-understand degree plan, which we show later on this website.
When a college or university prefers the course equivalence functionality in the system over the direct application of the credit in its original form, as shown above, the following shows how the articulation is presented to students on the degree plans:
Notice how the original source of credit is shown in italics below the course equivalence from the receiving college. Also, notice how the bold print above shows the total number of credits awarded for the credit applied to the subject - 3 semester hours. The students, as they review the degree plans, know to focus on the bold lines, as they are the curricula requirements of the degrees they are pursuing.
The image above shows a single course-to-course equivalence. What does a student see when it takes more than one subject in transfer to equal the value of the course equivalence at the receiving college? The image below shows you what they will see, as presented in the example above:
Notice how the courses-to-course equivalence displays in the same manner as the single course-to-course equivalence - the original source credit is in italics, with the equivalence just above it. (Of course, we have only shown 6 semester hours of the 27 that applied to this requirement for the purpose of explaining the process.)
There is much more to learn about how this system works. Next we will show you how easy it is to add courses taken by students in the past which are shown on transcripts sent to your college.
Click the image below to find out more.
