# Reviewing the transcript The **Transcript Review** tab is the first stop on packages created from a transcript. Mapademics has already extracted every line of the transcript and identified a real course in the relevant sending institution's published catalog for each one — using the institution resolution you confirmed when the package was imported. Your job is to confirm those identifications line by line — accept them, override the wrong ones, or manually pick a course for the lines it couldn't place. {% hint style="info" %} **This tab only appears on packages started from a transcript.** Manual packages don't have it at all — there's no transcript to review. See [Creating a manual package](/working-with-packages/creating-a-manual-package.md). {% endhint %} *** ## What you're looking at At the top of the tab is a yellow callout box titled **Transcript Extraction Review** with the instruction *"Please review the identified courses and accept them or make manual selections."* That's the one-line job description for this whole tab. Below the callout sit three header elements: * A **search field** ("Search by course code or title…") that filters the tables below. * A counter — **N awaiting review** — showing how many rows still need your decision. * A big green **Accept all identified courses (N)** button. One click applies Mapademics's identified course to every row that's still awaiting review. The page then groups every extracted transcript line by **term**, then by **transferring institution**. Transcripts often contain credit from more than one school — courses the student took at the issuing institution, plus courses they transferred in from elsewhere — and each line is identified against the catalog of *its own* institution, not just the issuing one. The grouping makes that obvious. Within each grouping, you'll see a table with the following columns: **Status**, **Code**, **Name**, **Credits**, and **Identified As** — the course Mapademics located in the catalog. Each row also has an action menu (the `...` at the far right) and an expand chevron on the left. Some rows will show a small left-right arrow icon next to the course code. Hover it for a tooltip — it means the row's transferring institution is different from the institution whose code is shown (the issuing school accepted credit for a course taken elsewhere and rewrote it into its own equivalency code). It's normal; nothing for you to do. *** ## The kinds of rows you'll see Most rows arrive in good shape and you'll fly through them. A handful need attention. Here's what each kind looks like and what to do. ### Ready to review The most common kind. A yellow **Review** badge in the Status column, with the suggested course shown in **Identified As**. Mapademics has found a candidate it thinks is right; you confirm or override. Expand the row with the chevron on the left to see the candidate list. The top candidate is highlighted with a blue border and carries a confidence badge plus a **✓ Identified** label; alternatives sit below it with a **Swap to this** button on the right. Each candidate shows its code, title, credits, and the catalog year it came from. * **High** — Mapademics is very confident this is the right match. The most common outcome on clean transcripts. * **Medium** — a reasonable match but worth a quick look. * **Low** — there's a candidate, but Mapademics isn't sure. Read it carefully. Two actions live behind the **…** menu at the right of each row: * **+ Manually select course** — opens a searchable picker over the sending institution's catalog so you can pick a specific course yourself. See [The manual-select dialog](#the-manual-select-dialog) below. * **⊘ Exclude course** — drops this transcript line from consideration entirely. Use it when the line shouldn't be evaluated for credit (a placeholder row, an audit-only course, a duplicate that's already covered elsewhere). In the expanded candidate list, click **Swap to this** on any non-top candidate to switch which course is identified for the row before you accept it. ### Waiting on you to resolve the institution Status badge: **No institution**. These rows come from a transcript where you chose **Leave unresolved** during the [confirm-institutions step](/working-with-packages/importing-a-transcript.md) at import. Mapademics knows what the transcript says, but not which real institution it points at — so there's no catalog to match against yet. Instead of the usual actions, the row shows an inline institution picker. Type to search; select the right institution. Mapademics will start researching that institution's catalog for this course, and the row will move to one of the other states (usually Review or Researching) once it's done. ### Waiting on Mapademics Status badge: **Pending access**. Your team doesn't have permission to see this row's institution catalog yet. A view-access request was queued when the package was created; once access is granted, identification kicks off automatically. No action from you in the meantime. ### Mapademics couldn't find a course Status badge: **No match**. The **Identified As** column shows an em-dash (—) instead of a course. We have the right institution and we've fetched its catalog, but nothing in the catalog matched the line on the transcript closely enough. The row's **…** menu offers the same two options as a Review row: * **+ Manually select course** — find the right course yourself in the picker. * **⊘ Exclude course** — drop this line from consideration. If your manual-select search comes up empty, the dialog has a **Can't find your course? Request it →** link that submits a request to add the course to our records. ### Done Status badge: **Reviewed**. These rows are already settled — what you see is the permanent record of how the row was identified. The `...` menu on a Reviewed row is replaced by an inline **⟲ Reopen for review** link at the far right (same link is also shown at the top of the expanded foldout). Click it to move the row back to **Review** state, where the **Manually select course** and **Exclude course** actions are available again. No decision is required from here unless you reopen. ### Excluded Status badge: **Excluded**. You've explicitly chosen to drop this transcript line from the package. The row stays on this tab as a record of the decision but doesn't appear on the **Course Equivalencies** tab. To bring it back, expand the row and pick a course manually. ### Something went wrong A red **Error** badge. Rare, and not something you can fix yourself — reach out via [Support](/reference/support.md) with the package and row in question. *** ## Accepting in bulk When you trust the identified courses and just want to move on, the **Accept all identified courses (N)** button at the top right accepts every row currently in the **Review** state in one operation. The counter on the button always reflects how many rows are eligible. Bulk accept doesn't touch rows in any other state — those aren't ready to be confirmed yet. They stay where they are. {% hint style="info" %} **Bulk accept is reversible per row.** If you accept everything and then realize one row was wrong, expand it and use **Manually select course** or **Exclude course** to override. {% endhint %} *** ## Adding a course the transcript missed Sometimes a transcript is incomplete or a course you need to evaluate was on a different document. At the bottom of every term grouping, you'll see a **+ Manually add course to transcript** link. Click it and you'll be asked for: * The **institution** the course belongs to. The picker is scoped to the institutions already on this transcript (primary + any transfer institutions), but you can also pick a new one if needed. * The **term** the course was taken in (a specific term like *Fall 2025*, not an academic year). * The course itself, from that institution's catalog. If the course is in our records, Mapademics adds it to the transcript in the **Reviewed** state automatically — no further confirmation needed. If your search comes up empty, the dialog offers **Can't find your course? Request it →** to submit it for inclusion. The row will appear on the transcript with a placeholder until the request is fulfilled. *** ## The manual-select dialog Choosing **Manually select course** from a row's `...` menu opens the **Pick a course** dialog. It's a focused, scoped picker — no period filter, no cross-institution searching. * The **institution** is locked to the row's transferring institution and shown as a chip at the top. * A **Credits** dropdown lets you filter to a specific credit value (1 through 6) if you know it. * A **search** field filters by code or title. * A **Hide courses already matched in transcript** checkbox lets you skip courses the transcript already covers, useful for transcripts with repeated codes. The results table shows **Institution, Code, Course Title, Period, Credits** — period appears as a column rather than as a filter, so you can see the catalog year a given course came from while scanning. Click any row to select it; the dialog closes and the row's status flips to **Reviewed** with the chosen course in **Identified As**. If nothing in the catalog fits, click **Can't find your course? Request it →** at the bottom of the dialog to submit a request for the course to be added. *** ## Moving on The package moves to the next stage — **Course Matching** — once every row on this tab is either accepted, manually identified, or excluded. You don't need to do anything special; the transition happens automatically when the last row is settled. From there, head to the **Course Equivalencies** tab to start matching transferring courses against your own catalog. See [Matching course equivalencies](/working-with-packages/course-equivalencies.md). *** ## Next steps * [Matching course equivalencies](/working-with-packages/course-equivalencies.md) * [The articulation report](/working-with-packages/the-report.md) * [Package stages](/reference/package-stages.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/working-with-packages/transcript-review.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. 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