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Setting Up Unit Conversions

To set up unit conversions, use the Unit Conversion Table component (UNIT_CONVR_TBL).

This section provides an overview of unit conversions, lists prerequisites, and discusses how to set up unit conversion rules within your institution.

If students at your institution take classes outside of their current career, you should define unit conversions. You should especially do this if some careers are on a quarter system and other careers are on a semester system (for example, if an MBA student takes a law course, but the MBA program is on a quarter system and the law program is on a semester system). The system also uses the unit conversion rules when you process internal transfer credit for students, which can include students with internal coursework that transfers from one career to another career, or students with internal coursework that transfers from one program to another program.

If you want to use term types other than the translate values that are delivered by PeopleSoft, you must first create them in the TERM_TYPE_CONVR_TO translate table.

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Unit Conversion Table

UNIT_CONVR_TBL

select Set Up SACR, then select Product Related, then select Student Records, then select Enrollment, then select Unit Conversion Table, then select Unit Conversion Table

Set up unit conversions within your institution.

Access the Unit Conversion Table page (select Set Up SACR, then select Product Related, then select Student Records, then select Enrollment, then select Unit Conversion Table, then select Unit Conversion Table).

Image: Unit Conversion Table page

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Unit Conversion Table page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.

Unit Conversion Table page

Field or Control

Definition
Term Type Convert To

Select the value to which you want to convert the value in the Term Unit Type field.
Unit Multiplier

Enter the number for the system to use to multiply the term unit type units by to convert them to the term type convert to value, for example, (term unit type units) × (unit multiplier) = (term type convert to units).