Mapademics DocsGetting started
A whirlwind tour of the Transfers app — the sidebar, the home page, and where to find every major workflow.
Getting started
Five-minute orientation. Read it once and you'll know where everything lives.
The sidebar
The sidebar is your map. It's grouped into two blocks:
| Group | Items | What's there |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | Home, Transfer Packages, Approved Equivalencies, Course Library | The primary workspaces. You'll spend nearly all of your time in Transfer Packages (or in one specific package). Approved Equivalencies is a cross-package view of every approved match you've made. |
| Settings | Settings | Your organization's settings and team management. |
At the very top of the sidebar you'll find:
- Your organization name and logo.
- A Help… field. Click it to open Arlo, the in-app AI assistant.
At the bottom: your own user menu, with Sign out.
The Home page
Home is a kanban board of every transfer package in your workspace, grouped by stage:
| Column | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Not Started | Packages you've created manually but haven't started working on yet. |
| Transcript Research | Mapademics is fetching the sending institution's catalog. You'll see a Researching X% progress bar on each card. |
| Transcript Review | The transcript has been extracted and is waiting for you to review on the Transcript Review tab. |
| Course Matching | Source courses are locked in. Time to approve equivalencies on the Course Equivalencies tab. |
| Completed | Every course has been resolved (approved or marked No Equivalent) and the report is ready to download. |
Each card shows the package name, the sending institution, course count, and how long ago the package was last touched. Click a card to jump straight into that package; click the arrow icon next to a column header to see the full list filtered to that stage.
For the lifecycle in detail, see How a package flows and Package stages.
Where each workflow lives
Use this table when you're not sure which sidebar item to click.
| You want to… | Go to | More |
|---|---|---|
| Start a new evaluation from a transcript PDF. | Transfer Packages → Create Package → From Transcript | Importing a transcript |
| Start a new evaluation by hand (no transcript). | Transfer Packages → Create Package → Manual | Creating a manual package |
| Confirm extracted transcript courses. | A package → Transcript Review tab | Reviewing the transcript |
| Match transferring courses to your own catalog. | A package → Course Equivalencies tab | Matching course equivalencies |
| Download the finished articulation PDF. | A package → Report tab → Download PDF | The articulation report |
| Rename a package or change its sending institution. | A package → … next to the title | The package page |
| See every package in one list. | Sidebar → Transfer Packages | How a package flows |
| Look up every approved equivalence across packages. | Sidebar → Approved Equivalencies | Approved Equivalencies |
| Invite a teammate. | Settings → Users → Invite User | Inviting your team |
| Rename your organization or copy your API key. | Settings → Organization Settings | Organization settings |
| Ask the in-app assistant a quick question. | Sidebar Help… | Arlo, your in-app helper |
Read this next
If you're new, the most useful next step is to understand the package lifecycle. Continue with How a package flows.
Welcome
Mapademics Transfers helps registrar and articulation teams turn an incoming transcript into a finished transfer articulation report — course by course, matched to your own catalog.
How a package flows
The end-to-end lifecycle of a transfer package — the five stages on the kanban board and what triggers each transition.