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WorkCenters have recently become the new "hot-topic" at this institution. Finding ways to increase efficiency in the day-to-day processes has been extremely attractive to the home office. One of the WorkCenters built in spring 2016 is called the "Transfer Credit Equivalencies WorkCenter". This WorkCenter contains three pagelets, incorporating not only a Drilling URL query pagelet, but two Navigation Collection pagelets as well.

The courses that are not yet equated are returned in the Drilling URL pagelet. This gives the user a "heads up" that there is also work to be done to create transfer equivalency rules for that external organization, or to equate an incoming course at the individual student level.

The first Navigation Collection Pagelet contains the links relevant to creating course equivalencies from external organizations, in the order that the steps must be completed. This pagelet includes the following: External Subject Table, School Subject Maintenance, School Course Classification, Transfer Subject Area, and Course Catalog.

The second Navigation Collection pagelet includes links that are frequently used when equating student courses at the transfer/ test model level, or in the Academic Requirements report. The links included in this pagelet are: Course Credits - Manual, Test Credits - Manual, Course Credits - Automated, Test Credits - Automated, External Education, Advisee Student Center, Authorize Student Exceptions, and Create a Course Substitution.

The home office staff who use this WorkCenter find that the running list of equivalencies to be made in the drilling URL and the navigation collections with either transfer equivalency rule links or individual student links has significantly increased the speed by which they can perform their work.