The Planning Guide submission includes the user's CAS UserID and UNIQ, program selected, and courses stored in My Courses with their appropriate SOURCE ID. FICE, ATP, ACT or IPED will be submitted based on what is required by the School ID Qualifier established for your institution within CAS. The program submitted (identified by the Program Code established in Manage Programs) must exactly match the value of the corresponding program DPROG in DARwin. The Planning Guide request is submitted with an EVALRUN value of 'A' which requires the processing of transfer courses before the degree audit.
DARwin TA Processing
CAS separates the Source Courses coming from My Courses based on the DARwin IREF (Institutional Reference) Department Begin/End and Course Begin/End values. Therefore, placing the Course Mask definition in the IREF (Institutional Reference) Table ensures that the courses are entered correctly in the Source area of the TA (Transfer Articulation) Table. If courses are entered in the Source area of the TA Table differently than the correct locations as defined by Department Begin/End and Course Begin/End, it will affect processing of the courses.
Courses submitted from an institution will have credit and grade associated with them. In order to determine how to handle the course grade and credit assigned, there are values on the IREF which will affect the course accordingly. Further documentation is available in the DARwin Workshop material or DARwin User Guides.
Some institutions do not use the ACTC field on the IREF and instead convert the hours before transfer articulation. This will not work for CAS. The course coming from the CAS course bank will have the hours given by the institution at which that course was taken.
Processing of Courses Not Identified in Current Encoding
In order to accommodate courses originating from institutions that may not have been encoded in existing DARwin IREF and TA Tables need to be created using the values defined in COM.SINSTID and SINSTCD. These values are used in TA processing if no matching Source ID exists on incoming transfer courses. It is recommended to create the articulation so that the Source Course is given to a Pseudo Course, which would appear in the Hungry Elective identified as a course from an "unknown" institution.
In addition, each TA table defined in DARwin should contain a rule to accept any course that may not have an equivalency at this time. Keeping this course identified in some way on the audit helps students and advisors to recognize that a particular course had no equivalency so they may possibly discuss determining an application of the course.
COM Table Necessities
The COMmunications Table contains basic control information for DARwin. There are fields that must be entered in the COM Table for CAS processing.
These three fields identify an institution in DARwin. The InstIDQ field is known as the Institution Qualifier, identifying the number used in the InstID. The InstID field is the Institution Identifier. InstCD, the Institution Code, further identifies an institution. This is typically used for special colleges and will most likely not be used. The valid codes that must be used in DARwin for CAS would be FICE, IPED, ACT or ATP.
The InstIDQ for these are as follows:
| FICE |
73
|
IPED
|
71
|
ACT
|
74
|
ATP
|
72
|
- DEPTBGN, DEPTLNG, CRSBGN, CRSEND, CRSLNG
These fields identify how courses look for the Home/Target institution. They are required for processing.
The SINSTID/CD fields are for processing of institutions not specifically encoded in DARwin. The value entered indicates the Default DARwin TA Table used if the Source ID associated with incoming transfer courses does not match an existing DARwin TA Table.
The Top file, displayed according to TOPLNECT, is extra text added to the top of a report. An example would be an HTML link to a Disclaimer or a Legend for reading the audit. When set to -0000, the Top file will not be included. When set to -0001, the top file will be included.
The Bot file, displayed according to BOTLNECT, is extra text added to the bottom of a report. When set to -0000, the Bot file will not be included. When set to -0001, the Bot file will be included.
Sets a code attached to possible content line types produced in audits, and allows font formatting in HTML. Each position has a specific meaning attached to it.
Laser should be set to: 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
CAS uses the DARS Reference Articulation functionality for the Cross-Reference Planning Guide; therefore, REVART must be set in order to process the request. To allow Reference Articulations to work, COM.REVART must be set to 'R' or 'S':
R
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Shows all of the courses in the Select From list along with those that have articulated from the transfer institution.
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S
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Shows just the courses in the "Select From" list that have an equivalent at the transfer institution.
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EVALRUN should be set to 'A' so that Articulation can occur for Planning Guide requests from CAS.
When set to '2', this COM field will allow the audits produced to report as a JSP audit with expandable and collapsible requirements. EDAG institutions must set WEBOPTION to '2'.
Set this field to @GRA to trigger the driver to pull in the correct grade table for DARwin processing.
The following three fields control how the output is formatted. All three are numeric values and must be represented in the COM table in five characters as a 4-digit right justified number, with a leading sign character. The format is '+0000'
The number of lines per page in a one-column report.
The number of lines per page in a two-column report.
The maximum lines that a one-column report can produce.
The Columns for the CAS Audits must be '1'.
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