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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
    • Add’l 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. to 4:00 p.m.

• Review 3 grade tables and purposes
• Locking after articulation  & editing
• Pseudo courses for conditionally accepting ‘D’ grades
• Remedial Rule & Unknown Rule
• Using DARS resources
  • Catalogs
  • Websites
  • Listserv
• Audit designed for bringing in Transfer Work
• Export to ISRS process
• Exporting TA tables
• Web Audit – Laurie
• DARS/CAS Connection
• Hands On