This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Educational Course Inventory Transaction Set (188) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used by schools and school districts and by postsecondary educational institutions to request and to transmit information about educational courses that are currently being offered or that have been offered in the past by the school, school district or postsecondary institution.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
To indicate the type of educational record or information being requested or being sent and to specify conditions under which it is being requested or was sent
To identify a party by type of organization, name, and code
To specify additional names or those longer than 35 characters in length
To specify the location of the named party
To specify the geographic place of the named party
To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To provide information on an educational course
To specify any or all of a date, a time, or a time period
To provide supplemental information on a course or a particular instance of a course
To specify identifying information
To provide a free-form format that allows the transmission of text information
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments)
