Transfer Credit EvaluationLioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence

Evaluate Transfer Credit in Minutes, Not Weeks

LioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence reads transcripts in any format, matches every course to your catalog using your articulation rules, and hands your evaluators a documented recommendation to approve. Approved credit posts straight to your SIS.

90%faster evaluations at Roane State Community College
18 daysfrom kickoff to live on Ellucian Banner (Roane State)
1M+course descriptions in the mapping corpus
Registrar staff member reviewing documents at an office desk
4 courses matched15 credits ready to post
ART 205 flaggedNo equivalent found, sent to faculty

What is automated transfer credit evaluation?

Software reads an incoming college transcript, matches each course to the receiving institution’s catalog, articulation agreements and state rules, and drafts a credit decision with the evidence. Evaluators review and approve instead of researching every course by hand. LioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence does this and posts approved credit to the SIS.

For registrars, transfer evaluators & VPs of enrollment

Who it’s for

Registrars, transfer credit evaluators, admissions processors and the VPs who answer for transfer yield. Transfer Credit Intelligence handles any student bringing credit from another institution, whatever their class standing: a sophomore with 24 credits, a returning adult with 70, or a student from a university partner abroad.

Institution-specific figures were reported by those institutions. Results vary with your current process, transcript volume and SIS configuration; we model your own numbers in the demo.

Which module do I need?

Plain definitions, because community colleges and universities don’t always use the same words.

Students coming to college for the first time from high school, homeschool or a GED (first-year / freshman)LioraAI Freshman Intelligence →
Anyone bringing credit from another college or university, whatever their class standingLioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence →
Service members and veterans with a JST, CCAF transcript or DD-214Veterans & JST →
Adult learners with certifications, work experience, exams or a portfolioPrior Learning Assessment →
The challenge

The Problems You Know Too Well

Manual course-by-course evaluation taking 3-8 weeks per student

The same course re-researched by a different evaluator every term

Equivalency decisions that change with whoever picks up the file

Transfer students enrolling wherever answers them first

Peak-season backlogs that blow past registration deadlines

Hours lost re-keying approved credit into the SIS

The difference

Why Teams Choose LioraAI

Built with the people who do the work, around one idea: your rules, applied every time, with a person approving every decision.

Registrar staff member reviewing documents at an office desk

Your rules, applied every time

Residency limits, minimum grades, credit caps, expiration windows and every articulation agreement you have signed are configured once and applied to every transcript, by every evaluator.

Evaluators review, they don’t research

Each suggestion arrives with the matched course descriptions, your past decisions on the same course and a confidence level. Your team approves, edits or overrides.

Every decision explained

An immutable audit trail records the evidence, the recommendation and the person who approved it. Appeals and accreditation reviews start from the record, not from memory.

Writes back to your SIS

Approved equivalencies post to Banner, Colleague, Workday Student, PeopleSoft or Jenzabar without re-keying, through API or scheduled SFTP.

How it works

Simple for Staff. Documented for Everyone.

Ingest

PDF, scanned paper, EDI and PESC XML transcripts from any institution

Extract

Courses, grades, credits and terms pulled into a clean record

Match

Each course matched to your catalog using your rules and history

Review

Evaluators approve, edit or send exceptions to faculty

Post

Approved credit written back to your SIS

transfer-credit · transcript_2026_03.pdf
Incoming courseYour equivalentStatus
BIOL 240 · A−→BIO 201 Matched
MATH 251 · B+→MTH 280 Matched
ENGL 102 · A→ENG 111 Matched
CS 161 · A→CSCI 150 Matched
ART 205 · B→- Review
4 courses matched · 15 credits ready to postReady for review
Key capabilities

Built for the Way Your Office Works

Every transcript format

PDF, scanned images, EDI/SPEEDE and PESC XML, domestic and international.

Configurable transfer policy

Grade minimums, residency, credit caps and course age, set by you.

Articulation agreements enforced

Partner agreements applied automatically, every time.

Batch processing

Clear peak-season queues in hours instead of weeks.

Live evaluation dashboard

See volume, turnaround and exceptions by evaluator and term.

Complete audit trail

Evidence, recommendation and approver recorded for every course.

Customer proof

Nashville State: 15 minutes to 2 per transcript. Roane State: three weeks to two days.

Real people, real offices, on video.

Integrations

Works With Your Existing Systems

Ellucian Banner & Colleague
Workday Student
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
Jenzabar
Slate by Technolutions
Salesforce
Common App
DegreeWorks
uAchieve
PESC XML & EDI
SFTP
ACE / JST
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers to what registrars, enrollment leaders and IT teams ask us most.

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LioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence is transfer credit evaluation software for colleges and universities. It reads transcripts in any format, matches each course to your catalog using your articulation rules and past decisions, and gives evaluators a documented recommendation to approve. Approved credit is written back to your student information system.

Courses without a confident match are flagged for review with suggested alternatives based on course descriptions, your catalog and your previous decisions. Evaluators or faculty approve, change or reject the suggestion, and that decision informs future suggestions at your institution only.

No. It enforces them. You keep ownership of every agreement and policy; Transfer Credit Intelligence makes sure each one is applied the same way on every transcript, by every evaluator.

Yes. LioraAI normalizes international grading scales and credit systems and flags documents that need a credential evaluation service, so your evaluators see a consistent record.

Banner 9 connects through the Ethos API for two-way data flow; Banner 8 uses scheduled SFTP. Approved transfer credit posts to Banner’s transfer articulation tables without manual re-entry. Roane State Community College went live on Banner in 18 days.

Most offices see time savings in the first week, once evaluators move from researching each course to reviewing recommendations. Transfer yield effects usually show within one enrollment cycle.

LioraAI is designed to be used in a FERPA-compliant way: EnlitEDU acts as a school official under your direct control, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, every decision is audit-logged, and student records are never used to train general-purpose AI models. A Data Processing Agreement is part of every contract.

See LioraAI Transfer Credit Intelligence on your transcripts.

Bring a few real transcripts to a 30-minute demo. We’ll run them live against your catalog and rules, and show you the review screen and the SIS write-back.