New External Credit Interface launches Jan. 24

The External Credit Interface (ECI) is a new connection between uAchieve (the parent system of APAS) and PeopleSoft. While the previous connection (“Backbridge”) brought transfer credit totals into PeopleSoft, ECI brings in course-level details of external transfer, test, and other credit equivalencies that can be used in PeopleSoft processes more effectively. A major benefit to students as a result of this work is that prerequisite and corequisite checking at registration can now include transfer equivalencies.

There will also be a change to student transcripts: all external credit will appear at the top of the transcript (before University enrollment information). This includes Special Exam credits, which previously displayed with enrollment per term.

ECI is currently in the final round of testing and on track for launch during the standard systems migration period on Sunday, January 24. Both official and unofficial transcripts will be unavailable the entire day as the system updates are completed.