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DARS Transfer Articulation Training Agenda

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First Day

8:30 a.m. ? 4:00 p.m.

• Welcome & Introductions
• Transfer Articulation Introduction and Overview ? PowerPoint
• IREF ICON:
  • Select Master Ref Table window
    • Select Transfer Institutions > Target
      • General Tab
      • Course Tab
      • Credit Tab
      • GPA Tab
      • Universal / Weighted Average Grades (VARS/FAIL)
    • Select Transfer Institutions> Source
      • Institution Info (envelope icon)
      • Grade Definition
      • Grade window blowup from tree view
      • Course Mask
  • Review Institutional Reference Table
  • Review Grade Table
  • Review your Institutional Reference Table (3 grade tables tomorrow)
  • Clone generic IREF to set up generic institution

• TA ICON Introduction:
  • Select Transfer Institutions> Source
    • TA (with groups closed)
    • Groups open, tree collapsed
    • TA Rules ?treeview ? branch expanded
      • Look up specific rule
        • Expanded view
    • Basic Articulation Rule Writing
    • One?to?one; one?to?many; many?to?many
  • Clone Generic TA Semester Institution to set up generic institution
  • Write generic institution rule(s) and add appropriate transfer courses to student (Joe Cool Icon)
    • Student icon
      • Demographic Info
      • Academic Record
        • Course list tab
        • Course detail tab
        • Alternate IDs tab
    • Exceptions
    • Transfer Evaluation
      • Look at treeview after articulation
      • Course detail tab
      • Addtional Info tab
  • Print a TA Audit
  • Rule Writing in depth
    • Course titles
    • Disciplines, #?s (TXXX), Electives versus generic Discipline rules, Sequence courses & ordering, Alternate ID & Flags
    • Various fields in TA (Lim Ct, Lim Hrs, Pseudo, etc)
  • Hands on
  
  

  Second Day

  8:30 a.m. ? 4:00 p.m.

  • Review 3 grade tables and purposes
  • Locking after articulation & editing
  • Pseudo courses for conditionally accepting 'D' grades and 'D' grades for MNTC courses 
  • Remedial Rule & Unknown Rule
  • Using DARS resources
    • Catalogs/Curriculum Changes 
    • Websites (new resource - TES)
    • Listserv
    • DARS/u.select Support Services 
  • Audit designed for special purposes:
  • EMNTC 
  • TRLOOKUP
  • International Institutions
  • Standardized Exams
  • DARS/u.select Connection
  • Best practice for keeping rules up-to-date
  • Hands On