[Tx-speed] Is YOUR school ready to receive TREx Electronic HS Transcripts?

[David Stones]

Hello again, TX-SPEED  listserv folks.   At the TACRAO meeting in 
Addison, we discussed a strategy for rolling out the TREx electronic 
transcript project for Texas high schools sending to Texas colleges.  We 
are to assist by doing the following: (1) verify readiness to receive on 
the part of colleges and (2) use our TACRAO volunteer colleges to help 
test and certify readiness of Texas high schools.

Tim Tashjian, UT Austin, sent a message last week to those who 
volunteered to test with high schools.

Today's e-mail is for all Texas colleges, *providing a mechanism for 
them to record their readiness and willingness to accept TREx 
transcripts *(in SPEEDE/ExPRESS EDI format via the UT Austin Server) 
from those high schools which have tested satisfactorily with one of the 
volunteer schools.  Here's how you do that.

Links and other SPEEDE/TREx information, including readiness status for 
colleges/universities, can be found at 
http://registrar.utexas.edu/speede/trex/.    That page has links for:
(a) the testing process for colleges and universities  - *READ THIS*
(b) TREx readiness status of colleges - the list to which we would like 
to add your school
(c) Texas colleges and universities willing to test with high schools 
and report their readiness.
(d) TEA TREx site.

TEA has expanded the number of sample transcripts on their TREx web 
site, under IHE Tools, or you may reach it from a "TREX EDI Examples 
from TEA" link in the first bullet on the testing process link (above).  
This lists ten sample student TREx transcripts, Student File 1.txt thru 
Student File 10.txt.   (It also lists the XML files used to pull the 
data from the high schools, but you won't use that in testing.)  You may 
copy and paste these into text data files, or possibly right click and 
Save-As.    Run these transcripts through the Q & E or your school's 
software to make sure it works to your satisfaction.

The TREx College and University Testing section  includes a link for 
downloading the beta version of the revised Quick & Easy software which 
can print high school transcripts and generate acknowledgments.  (I 
route my print output to a file, then set font as Lucida sans Typewrite 
font at 8 point in order to get the printed transcript to fit on the 
page - you may not need to do that).

Once you determine that you are ready to handle electronic TREx 
transcripts and treat them as official credentials, *please contact* 
regist at ediserver.utexas.edu <mailto:regist at ediserver.utexas.edu> and 
*report that you are ready*.   You may also approach that address with 
questions, or requests to change your listing at the above speede/trex site.

This message is being posted to both TACRAO and TX-SPEED listservs.   If 
you are on both, you may send one of the messages to a friend.

Thanks.
dave stones

p.s. - Later this week,  we expect to send a message about 
registration for the Texas SPEEDE User Group meeting, announced earlier 
for *Thursday, May 8*.  The program will again be within the 9 AM - 4 PM 
timeframe.  We are moving back to the MCC facility in Austin, which is 
pretty close to the Pickle Research Center where we've been the last 
several years.   We will discuss the TREx project in more depth at that 
meeting.
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