# Welcome Mapademics Transfers is the workspace for registrar and articulation teams. It takes an incoming transcript, locates each course in the sending institution's published catalog, suggests the closest equivalent at your own institution, and produces a downloadable transfer articulation report. This page introduces what the product does and the workflow you'll spend most of your time in. The next page, [A quick tour](/getting-started/quick-tour.md), shows you where each piece lives in the app. {% hint style="info" %} **These docs live inside Transfers, too.** Click **Help…** at the top of the sidebar to open the in-app assistant alongside whatever page you're on. {% endhint %} *** ## Who Transfers is for Transfers is built for the staff inside an institution that evaluates incoming transfer credit — registrars, transfer coordinators, articulation specialists, and the teammates who set the workspace up. Every page in these docs is written from your perspective: the **home institution**, looking at coursework someone is trying to bring in from a **transferring institution**. The students whose transcripts you're evaluating don't log in to Transfers. They never see the app. The only thing they ever see is the final PDF report, which you choose when and how to share. *** ## What you'll do Most teams use Transfers in a single linear workflow per student: one transcript in, one report out. The workflow is the same whether you're handling a single student or a long queue. ### 1. Create a package A **transfer package** is the container for everything related to one student's transfer evaluation. You can create one in two ways: * **From a transcript.** Drop in a transcript PDF and Mapademics extracts every term, every course code, every credit value. This is the path most teams use most of the time. * **Manually.** Just give the package a name and pick the sending institution. You'll add courses by hand on the Course Equivalencies tab. This is useful for evaluating a specific course list — for example, a program-to-program articulation agreement — without a transcript in hand. See [Importing a transcript](/working-with-packages/importing-a-transcript.md) or [Creating a manual package](/working-with-packages/creating-a-manual-package.md). ### 2. Review the transcript *(only on packages started from a transcript)* Mapademics has already identified a course in the sending institution's published catalog for every extracted transcript line. You confirm those identifications, override any that look wrong, or manually pick a course for the lines it couldn't place. When you're done, every transcript line is tied to a real course in the sending catalog. See [Reviewing the transcript](/working-with-packages/transcript-review.md). ### 3. Match course equivalencies This is where the articulation work actually happens. For every course on the package, Mapademics shows a ranked list of candidate equivalents from your own catalog, each with a percentage score and three quick check signals. You **pin** the right one — that's the act of articulation. There's a **Pin All to Best Match** button when you trust the suggestions enough to apply them in bulk. See [Matching course equivalencies](/working-with-packages/course-equivalencies.md). ### 4. Produce the report When every course is pinned, head to the **Report** tab. Write (or generate) a summary, review the equivalences, and download the PDF. See [The articulation report](/working-with-packages/the-report.md). *** ## Where the data comes from Three sources feed Transfers: * **The transcript you upload.** Coursework is extracted directly from the PDF — terms, codes, titles, credits. * **The sending institution's published catalog.** Mapademics maintains a library of institutional catalogs. Every transcript line is identified against the real course record in that library, so credits and titles reflect what the sending school actually offered the year the student took it. When a catalog isn't in the library yet, Mapademics fetches it automatically — that's the **Transcript Research** stage you'll see on new packages. * **Your own catalog.** Your home institution's courses live in the same library, and they're what every equivalency candidate is drawn from. *** ## Next steps * [A quick tour](/getting-started/quick-tour.md) * [How a package flows](/working-with-packages/how-a-package-flows.md) * [Glossary](/reference/glossary.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. 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