Patent ID: 9177078
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for converting educational credentials from a first country to credentials for a second country, comprising: a database storing data related to grading scales and credit scales for educational credentials for a plurality of countries, the database comprising for each country and each grade weight: a country grade start field, a country grade end field, grade weight field, a grade weight start field, and a grade weight end field, the country grade start field and a country grade end field defining a range of country grades for a grade weight in the grade weight field, the grade weight start field and the grade weight end field defining an intermediate grade range for the grade weight in the grade weight field; and a processor receiving data from a user related to course grades and credits earned in the first country and a selection of the second country from among the plurality of countries, wherein the second country has a grading scale and a credit scale that is different from the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country, the processor converting the course grades and credits earned in the first country to intermediate grades and intermediate credits, wherein the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits represent numeric values of the course grades and credits earned based on the grading scale and the credit scale of the first country, the processor retrieving data related to the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country from the database based on the user data, the grading scales and credit scales of a plurality of countries being retrievable in the database, the processor converting the intermediate grades and the intermediate credits to equivalent grades, credits, and grade point averages in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country based on the data from the database, the processor providing the grades, credits, and grade point averages equivalent in the grading scale and the credit scale of the second country to an electronic display for display to the user, wherein the processor determines the intermediate grades using the course grades earned in the first country and the country grade weight start field and the country grade weight end field for the first country to determine a corresponding grade weight, and wherein the processor determines the grades of the second country using the corresponding grade weight and the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country, wherein the grades of the second country are provided as a range corresponding to the country weight start field and the country weight end field for the second country.