# Mapademics Transfers Mapademics Transfers is the workspace where registrar and articulation teams turn an incoming transcript into a finished transfer articulation report. You drop in a transcript (or build a package by hand), Mapademics extracts the coursework and locates each course in the sending institution's published catalog, and then suggests the closest equivalent at your own institution — with a confidence score, a per-course justification, and a one-click way to lock in the match. These docs are written for the staff inside an institution that uses Transfers. If you work in a registrar, transfer, or articulation office, you're in the right place. *** ## What you'll find here | Section | What it covers | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Getting started](/getting-started/welcome.md) | What Transfers is, who it's for, and a five-minute tour of the app. | | [Working with packages](/working-with-packages/how-a-package-flows.md) | The day-to-day: the lifecycle of a transfer package and the three tabs you'll work in to produce a report. | | [Setting up your workspace](/setting-up-your-workspace/inviting-your-team.md) | One-time setup: inviting teammates and editing your organization's settings. | | [Reference](/reference/glossary.md) | Glossary, the five package stages, the match signals, and how to ask Arlo or contact Support. | *** ## A few key ideas A handful of concepts come up across the whole product. Skim these and you'll have the vocabulary for everything else. * **A transfer package is one transcript, end to end.** Every piece of work — extracting coursework, locating each course in the sending school's catalog, matching to your own courses, writing the report — happens inside a single **transfer package**. See [How a package flows](/working-with-packages/how-a-package-flows.md). * **There are two surfaces of matching.** First, transcript lines are matched against the **sending institution's** real catalog (the **Transcript Review** tab). Then those real courses are matched against your **home institution's** catalog (the **Course Equivalencies** tab). Mapademics does the heavy lifting in both places; you confirm. * **Match candidates are scored, not guessed.** Every suggested equivalent comes with a percentage score, three quick check signals — **Credit Match**, **Level Match**, **Year Proximity** — and a written justification. See [Match signals](/reference/match-signals.md). * **Pinning is the act of articulation.** A package isn't done when Mapademics has suggested matches. It's done when *you* have **pinned** an equivalent for each course. The report won't generate until every course is pinned. *** ## Need help inside the app? Click **Help…** at the top of the sidebar to open [Arlo](/reference/arlo.md), the in-app AI assistant. For anything Arlo can't answer, see [Support](/reference/support.md). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://transfers-docs.mapademics.com/readme.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.