This presentation will introduce you to the powerful features of TES including: The flexibility of TES Easy to use Course Finder In depth course descriptions Evaluation Tracker for evaluating transfer courses

 T.E.S. stands for: Transfer Evaluation System  TES is a product from College Source the same company that owns DARWIN.  Just like College Source, TES provides PDF Catalogs  The TES course finder does the searching for you when finding a course description.  TES provides equivalencies at your fingertips via the TES website

 Course finder: to look up course descriptions  Course description options: there are several functions available in the course description area of Tes.  Institution profile: A complete data set of information for accredited colleges and schools in the u.s.a.  Tes Evaluation Tracker: use Tes to send upper division course evaluations to departments for review.

 Use the Course Finder to look up course descriptions without having to search the entire college catalog  To begin searching for a course: log into TES, from the home page, click on the “Course Finder” link

 Type in the college name and click search  ***HINT: you can change the search to look for non U.S. schools or both domestic and international***

 Choose your school by clicking on the arrow to the left of the name

 You can either use the Course Description Data Set or you can view the College’s PDF Catalog (like College Source).  For either one you will need to use the pull down menu to choose the proper catalog year.

 From the Institution Data Set, you can do two things:  Search for a particular course by typing in the Course Code or the Course Title (need the EXACT Title or Number).  Search for a course by department using the pull down menu.

 If you know the EXACT Course Title or Number you can search by typing that in the fields provided.

 You can also search for a course description by department.

 TES offers you more than just a course description:  You can: view an institution’s profile, go to their website or look at the PDF of their catalog  You can: print the course description.  the course description to a member of the LOBOTrax Transfer Team for evaluation at:  You can: view the most recent version of a class or the oldest version of a class  You can: display all versions of a course, view existing equivalencies for a course, or conduct a course equivalent search

 Approve: Use this action when you agree with the included equivalent.  Deny: Use this action when you disagree with the included equivalent.  Need more information: Use this action when you do not have enough information to make a decision.  Re-assign: Use this action to redirect an evaluation to the proper user or group.  Select/change equivalent course: Use this action to search for the proper UNM equivalent when a UNM course is not included or when the wrong UNM was selected as an equivalent.

OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO TES USERS:  TES MANUAL AVAILABLE HERE : oc/TES_Manual_ pdf oc/TES_Manual_ pdf  TES FAQ : q/TES_faq.asp q/TES_faq.asp  TES Movie Demos: ov/moviedemolist.asp ov/moviedemolist.asp  TES WEBINARS : ebinar/webinar.asp ebinar/webinar.asp

This concludes our presentation