Electronic Curriculum Sheet (ECS)

Suggestions for improvements are welcome and can be emailed to me.

This system does not have direct access to your transcript for security reasons. Therefore you must do the following to grab your transcript and enter it into this system:

1. Keep this window/tab open,
2. In another window/tab
   1. Login to the YSU portal,
   2. Open your transcript,
   3. Copy your transcript to the clipboard
      1. Select all (ctrl-a)
      2. Right click and choose copy (or ctrl-c)
3. Paste your transcript in the box below: (or ctrl-v)
4. Click the "Process Transcript" button

Privacy Policy

This system currently collects and stores the following information:

• Student name, banner ID, and birthdate.
• The major and minor as listed on the transcript (without student information).
• The Banner ID of the user (student or advisor) and time that the system was used.
• Counts of how many courses of the various Gen Ed 2012 categories are on the transcript (without any ID or grades).
• Some debugging information such as what courses match various requirements (without any ID or grades)

Using this system implies consent for such data to be collected.

Hidden Features

There are some features in the system that are not obvious. They include:

• Grades for a Gen Ed course may have a strike through of the grade. That indicates that the course also applies to some other requirement and therefore shows up a second time. (Credit is received only once.)
• In the Gen Ed section, clicking on the "NS", "AH", etc. will link to the University Gen Ed web page for those areas.
• Clicking on a course opens a page for all the courses offered in that Department.
• Hovering the mouse over a non-Gen Ed course will show the course hours, when taken, and course title.
• A student must access the system in order for it to capture the student's Banner ID. (An advisor's transcript does not have the student Banner ID anywhere on it.)

Limitations and Suitability

This system works well for most students. It is believed to be at least as accurate as the Penguin Pass system for the programs it implements. (Penguin Pass implements ALL YSU programs.)

For a number of reasons, the ECS could produce incorrect or incomplete results. Transfer credit is particularly difficult for any automated system to handle. If something looks wrong, check with a human advisor. Humans are best equipped to handle unforeseen conditions.

Since the 2012 Gen Ed model allows some courses to meet multiple categories, the ECS does its best to allocate such courses. Since the mind reading package has not been installed, the ECS might not know your intentions for category for a given course. Also, there are times that the category of a course is placed in changes when other courses are added. Courses that can be in a different category have different background colors and hovering over such a course gives a message about what other category it could possibly be.

Expansion

Currently data is available for a number of major programs within the STEM college and a number of minors. Current plans for expansion include:

• Implementing more minors
• Implementing all majors within STEM.

Suggestions are welcome, even encouraged, and can be emailed to me.