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ONTransfer Website & Course to Course
Database
May 2013
Glenn Craney
Executive Director
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• Welcome and Introductions
• History of the Course to Course Database
Project
• Overview of the AcademyOne Tool
• two methods to manage equivalencies
• give you the chance to kick the tires
• Next steps in data collection
• Questions
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12 Institutions identified that they wanted to build a
course to course database as part of the CTIG
• Algonquin
• Brock
• Fanshawe
• Boreal
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 Conestoga  Sheridan
 U of T
 Ryerson
 Trent
 St. Lawrence
 Queen’s
 Windsor
Ministry requested ONCAT’s assistance develop a
multi-institution project to jointly develop a database
• Serve the needs of institutions and provide good
information to students
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Created a Steering Group with the ‘original 12’
Reviewed the space & selected a vendor – Academy One
Supports a course to course databases in the US
• Licensed Technology
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Build will be in Canada
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BOLD INTERNET
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Ran a pilot over the Summer 2012
Lots of ‘learns’ on the project
Good technical results
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good to go from a technical build standpoint
Mixed Institutional Results
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different institutions use this data in a different ways
range of technical solutions to course-to-course equivalencies
across institutions.
• Good news – licensed tool is highly flexible and adaptable
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Student facing front-end
Built as part of the
ONTransfer Portal
Students enter their
transcript and see
equivalencies by
institution
• Both transfer and LOP
• Availability to for institutions to show simple and complex
equivalencies
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Including caveats and links to transfer advisors
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• Workspace to maintain and update equivalencies
• workflow management system
• request expert advice
• possibility for documents transfer
• Control/update from the institution
• Collection of course catalogues from across the
sector
• Recommend (2nd & 3rd degree) equivalencies
• Possibility of management reports on searches
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• Collect Course Calendars/Catalogues in electronic
form – including:
• course number  course credits
• course title
 course hours
• course description
• Begin to populate equivalencies
• Kick off meetings starting March/April
• Starting with the original 12
• All colleges have signed on
• Open to all other institutions who want to participate
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Target to launch in September
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