Configure General Information in the Transferology Lab

This article provides an overview of the General Information tab within the School Profile in Transferology® Lab. During onboarding, the fields on this tab will be prepopulated with data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). School Administrators can review this document to understand the fields within the tab before reviewing and adjusting information and to assist in updating information at a later point. 

School Administrators should be careful to understand the impact of updating settings within the General Information tab, as this may affect the display of information to students and staff.

Contact transferology-support@collegesource.com with questions.

General Information Fields

The General Information tab is located within the School Profile. To navigate to this area: 

  1. Go to the School Profile menu. 
  2. Select School Management
  3. Select the General Information tab. 

Information is broken down into five sections: 

  1. Details
  2. TES Evaluation 
  3. SIS Import 
  4. Identifiers 
  5. Misc data 

Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Gray fields cannot be edited. 

General Information tab.
Select to see a larger version

Details 

Within this section are the following fields. Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Gray fields cannot be edited. 

Field 

Description/Instructions 

Website* 

Institution website address.

Course equivalencies* 

Turn the display of course equivalencies on or off on the Transfer Equivalencies page by selecting the corresponding option from the drop-down: 

  • Enabled 
  • Disabled 

Subscription level* 

Indicates the type of Transferology® subscription the institution has purchased: 

  • Full 

Subscription level is set by CollegeSource and cannot be changed by the School Administrator. 

Equivs public* 

Turn the display of course equivalencies on or off for all Transferology and Transferology Lab users by selecting the corresponding option from the drop-down: 

  • Enabled 
  • Disabled 

This field is set by CollegeSource and should not be changed by the School Administrator. Please contact CollegeSource to update this field.

Programs enabled* 

Indicates whether or not Programs are visible to students viewing the institution: 

  • Enabled 
  • Disabled 

Memo aligned* 

Select a left or right alignment for the memo on the Advising & Recruiting > Transfer Equivalencies page by selecting the corresponding option from the drop-down: 

  • Right 
  • Left 

Example: Right alignment

Illustration of right alignment of the memo field. The memo appears under the equivalent transfer course.


Auto archive leads & advisees* 

Select whether or not to automatically archive leads and advisees' requests that are older than 90 days from the drop-down: 

  • No 
  • Yes 


TES Evaluation 

Within this section are the following fields. See TES Mode: Create Evaluation Tasks from the Transferology Lab for further information about this integration. 

Field Explanation/Instructions
Role who can view Activity Logs*

Limits the view access to the TES Evaluations Activity Log to a specific role; useful for hiding comments that may contain restricted information.

Select one of the following from the drop-down: 

  • Any Role (If "Any Role" is selected, then all Lab users at the institution can view the activity log)
  • No One (If "No One" is selected, then no Lab users at the institution can view the activity log)
  • Advisors 
  • Program Admins 
  • Recruiters 
  • School Admins 
  • State Coordinators 
  • TES Evaluators 
  • Transfer Pathways Admins 
  • Transfer Specialists 
Role who can view comments*

Limits the view access to the TES Evaluation Comments to a specific role.

Select one of the following from the drop-down: 

  • Any Role (If "Any Role" is selected, then all Lab users at the institution can view the comments)
  • No One (If "No One" is selected, then no users Lab users at the institution can view the comments)
  • Advisors 
  • Program Admins 
  • Recruiters 
  • School Admins 
  • State Coordinators 
  • TES Evaluators 
  • Transfer Pathway Admins 
  • Transfer Specialists 
Role who can view Private Notes*

Limits the ability to view TES Evaluation Private Notes to a specific role.

Select one of the following from the drop-down: 

  • Any Role (If "Any Role" is selected, then all Lab users at the institution can view the Private Notes)
  • No One (If "No One" is selected, then no users Lab users at the institution can view the Private Notes)
  • Advisors 
  • Program Admins 
  • Recruiters 
  • School Admins 
  • State Coordinators 
  • TES Evaluators 
  • Transfer Pathway Admins 
  • Transfer Specialists 
Request Daily Limit*

Controls the turning on/off of the Transferology Lab-TES integration.

Key in a numerical daily limit (example: 25) for the number of courses that may be sent from the Transferology® Lab per day to the TES® Evaluation Tracker workflow.

A value of "0" indicates that the institution is not using Transferology Lab-TES integration.

Allow user to assign TES Evaluation requests to a specific user  Mark the checkbox to allow users to assign TES evaluation requests to a specific user rather than simply using the Default Assignee.


SIS Import 

Within this section are the following fields: 

Field 

Description/Instructions 

Enable 

Select the checkbox to turn on Student Information System (SIS) import; deselect to turn off SIS import.

If SIS Import is turned off, then the URL and Response Time fields are inactive (grayed out).

URL 

URL of SIS import.

Response Time 

Length of time (minutes) that the SIS import may take (example: 2 minutes). 



Identifiers 

Within this section are the following fields: 

Field 

Description 

School ID* 

Transferology® school ID number.

CAS uniq 

Course Applicability System (CAS) unique ID. 

IPEDS ID 

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) institution ID number. 

ATP code 

ATP institution identifier code.

ACT code 

American College Testing (ACT) institution identifier code.

FICE code 

Federal Interagency Committee on Education (FICE) institution identifier code. 

CEEB code 

College Entrance Examination Examination Board (CEEB) institution identifier code.

OPE ID 

US Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) institution ID number. 



Misc data 

Within this section are the following fields: 

Field 

Description/Instructions 

Catalog source* 

Indicates how an institution's course catalog is provided to Transferology®: 

  • TES 
  • Cached 
  • Local (Required to use the Course Catalog Import/Export feature)
  • None 

Equiv type* 

Select the source of the institution's equivalencies from the drop-down: 

  • uAchieve 
  • DARwin 
  • TES 
  • TES Import 
  • PeopleSoft 
  • Banner 
  • None 

Equiv Sort* 

Select the type of sort for the equivalencies from the drop-down: 

  • Alphabetical 
  • uAchieve/Darwin 

Sync TES Group Report Titles 

Controls alignment between the GROUP REPORT NAME field in TES® and the Pathway Name field in Transferology. 

Select one of the following from the drop-down: 

  • Initially  (Populates the GROUP REPORT NAME field as the Pathway name. Updates to the GROUP REPORT NAME field in TES will not be reflected in Transferology.)
  • Always  (Populates the GROUP REPORT NAME field as the Pathway name. Updates to the GROUP REPORT NAME field in TES will be reflected in Transferology.)
Show course hour units on transfer equivalencies?

Controls whether the course hour units (example: up to 3 hours) of the source and home courses are displayed within the Transfer Equivalencies page.

  • When marked (default setting):
    • When equivalencies are supplied through TES, the source course and home course hours will display if they are provided within the institutions’ catalog data sets.  
    • When equivalencies are supplied through uAchieve®, the source course and home course hours will display if provided within the transfer rule.  
    • Note: Source and home course hours will not display if the unit contains a decimal, and source course hours will not display for institutions supplying equivalencies through PeopleSoft T-Rex. 
  • When unmarked:
    • Neither the source course nor home course hours will be displayed on the page.


Update Fields

School Administrators should be careful to understand the impact of updating settings within the General Information tab, as this may affect the display of information to students and staff.

Contact transferology-support@collegesource.com with questions.

To update a field on the General Information tab: 

  1. Use the keyboard, drop-down menu(s), or checkbox(es) to adjust the data/selection using the instructions above. 
    • Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*). Gray fields cannot be edited. 
  1. Select Save
    • This button is located at the bottom of the page and will require scrolling. 
Did this answer your question? Thanks for the feedback There was a problem submitting your feedback. Please try again later.

Still need help? Contact Us Contact Us