Colleges and universities may offer courses to students with a different calendar year. Some are semester-based and some are quarter-based. This field is used to indicate if the transcript for a college or high school is from a Semester-based or a Quarter-based calender year.
With this feature, BFT sends the coursework into the customers' student information system, eliminating the need for manual entry. Once in the student information system, this coursework is later used in Transfer Credit Evaluation. Since certain student information systems calculate transfer credits differently for Quarterly and Semester schools, defining the course unit type prior to sending to the SIS would ensure a smooth transfer credit evaluation process.
The value you select is applied to all coursework. A transcript would not have a mix of Semester and Quarterly courses.
The values for this field can be configured using SCM. Also, the field labels are updated in the Verifier form based on the label settings in SCM. For more information, refer to Configure the Custom Field Value Settings.
The values selected for this field are displayed in the XML file obtained at the time of exporting the documents.
- In SCM, go to and locate the relevant field.
- Under the Active column, select the check box to mark the field as active.
You can also modify the default value of this field under the Default Value column. For more information on specific fields, see Configure the field settings.