TES
TES is an invaluable tool for researching institution and course information for determining the transferability of courses from a sending institution to your institution. TES consists of a central database of data sets consisting of course details maintained by CollegeSource. These course details provide course-specific information including the course description, the number of units/credits, prerequisites, co-requisites, minimum grade requirements, lecture hours, lab hours, the department offering the course, and the version history of the course. Course Descriptions can be included in Evaluation Tasks and then routed to advisors and faculty evaluators for their review and approval. This process is tracked within the database, eliminating the need for a paper or an e-mail trail.
Building transfer equivalencies can be accomplished in a few, easy steps. Select an incoming course or courses, (send out the course description(s) for evaluation,) identify the equivalent course(s) at your institution, add pertinent equivalency details such as effective dates, public/private notes, and whether or not it is visible or hidden, and then save the equivalency right in TES.
Equivalencies can be displayed on your website for the public to see using the Public View. Several different reports are available that provide additional assistance with the transfer-evaluation process. One allows you to compare two catalogs from the same (feeder) institution. There are three reports that let you review changes to your own catalogs that affect current equivalencies. TES greatly improves the efficiency throughout the entire equivalency evaluation process, potentially saving staff many hours per day.
The Support features include the TES User Manual, a list of Frequently Asked Questions, a collection of recorded demos and webinars, a list of TES enhancements and what features were included in each enhancement, a collection of additional resources, and the TES Web Service API Package details. Please click on the element below that you would like to review.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Here is a list of our most frequently asked questions.
- What is TES?
- What is Course Finder?
- What is a Course List Report?
- What is an Equivalency Report?
- What is Equivalency Manager?
- Why Doesn’t TES Show the Most Recent Catalog for Particular Institutions?
- Who is a TES® Administrator and What Responsibility Does This Person Have?
- How Do I Add a User to My Account?
- How Does a User Receive Their Password?
- What If I Forgot My TES Password?
- User Account is Already in Use
- What are Course Tags?
- What is a Transcript Key?
- What are Outlines?
- What Are User-Added Courses and What Are They Used For?
- How Do I Get My Course Equivalencies Which Are Currently in My System (Banner, Darwin/U.Achieve, Colleague, Jenzabar, Peoplesoft, Etc.) into TES®?
- Does TES Have Exams (AP/CLEP, DSST, IB or Cambridge Exams) Data?
- How to update permissions and workflows when you have staff who retire, leave, or transition to a new role.
- What is the Difference between an Evaluation and an Equivalency?
- Rather Than Have CollegeSource Get My School’s Course Data from My School’s Printed or PDF Catalog Version, Can I Give You the Data Directly?
- Why Is the Course Description in a Foreign Language?
- Movie Demos and Webinars
- Movie Demos focus on a brief overview of specific functions. They are available even if you don’t have a login, so anyone can review them. We are in the process of migrating the movie demos to this site. Current movie or video demos can be found here:
- Enhancements
- Check out the latest updates and added features in TES.
- 08/14/2019 Case Sensitivity Passwords
- 08/14/2019 Course Change Explorer EQ Indicator
- 08/14/2019 TES Dashboard
- 08/01/2018 Group Reports Update
- 06/05/2018 User Added Send Courses
- 06/27/2018 Update to Public and Private Note Indicator in Equivalency Manager
- 11/15/2018 TES Equivalency Export Gets New Institution Identifier Codes
- 11/19/2018 Export List of Users
- 01/15/2018 Added Option to Add Comment to Batch Re-assign
- 01/15/2018 Evaluation Tracker Email Notification Function Enhancement
- 01/24/2018 Updated Catalog and Transcript Viewer
- 02/09/2018 User Added Home Course Redesign
- 10/13/2017 Add Multiple Course to Equivalency Groups
- 10/13/2017 Cross Edition Equivalency Support
- 10/13/2017 Public View Updates
- 10/13/2017 Removed Pop-ups When Navigating Between Silos in TES
- Additional Resources
- The Support tab has many helpful features to assist with questions that you might have about the functions/features available in TES.
- TES Web Service API Package
- CollegeSource Application Programming Interfaces (API) is a premium service package for our TES® product. The APIs allow users to create equivalencies or evaluation tasks outside of TES® and allow users to create a customized public view. The web service API package is not included with a TES subscription; there is an additional yearly subscription for its use.