User Preferences: Change Password and Set Home Page

This article provides an overview of the functionality available within the User Preferences page in TES®.

The User Preferences screen is available to all users of TES® regardless of user rights. The user’s password can be updated within this page, and the default login page can be set.

To navigate to User Preferences:

1. Go to the Manage menu.
2. Select User Preferences.

Change Password

An account password can be updated under CHANGE MY PASSWORD. To do so:

1. Review the password guidelines:
   • The password must be new, not the same as your previous password.
   • The password must be a minimum of eight (8) characters.
   • The password must contain at least two letter characters and two number characters.
   • The password must contain at least one uppercase character and at least one lowercase character.
   • The password may contain special characters except for spaces, forward slashes, semi-colons, or sequential hyphens.
2. Enter a new password into the field noted.
3. Re-enter the password in the Re-enter to confirm box.

4. Users will be presented with the following items to verify:
   • The individual is an employee of the noted institution.
   • The user has read and agreed to abide by the Subscriber Agreement and Terms of Use for CollegeSource Services.
     • Review the agreement & terms of use.
     • Mark the checkboxes to the left of each item.
     • Transferology® Lab users will see a message indicating that this password reset will apply to both the TES and Transferology Lab accounts.
5. Select Submit.

The user will be directed to the TES login screen, where it will be noted that the password was successfully changed. Please log in with the new password.

Set Home Page

Each user can select a home page in TES® within SET MY HOME PAGE. The page selected will be the one the user sees immediately upon logging into TES. The available options depend on the user’s assigned rights.

Home Page Options

The full range of options is organized under the below headings, according to the menu under which they appear in TES:

• Default
  • Default Homepage
  • Dashboard
• Search:
  • Course Finder
  • Equivalency Finder
  • Course List Report
• Track:
  • My Evaluations
  • All Open Evaluations
  • All Closed Evaluations
  • Send Email Reminders
• Match:
  • Equivalency Manager
  • Equivalency Batch Editor
  • Equivalency Explorer
  • User Added Courses
  • Course Tags & Outline
• Manage:
  • Usage Statistics
  • Public View Management
  • User Management
  • Export Options

Users with an active TES® account but no established user rights will only have four pages to choose from:

• Default Homepage
• Dashboard
• Course Finder 
• Equivalency Finder

Users with every TES user right will have all eighteen choices above.

Set the Home Page

To select a default home page:

1. Under SET MY HOMEPAGE, select the button to the left of its name.
2. Select Submit.

A Specialized Case: The Faculty Evaluator

Institutions using the Evaluation Tracker workflow may want to suggest that users exclusively evaluating courses set the My Evaluations page as the default home page. This would ensure that each time these users log into TES®, each individual is taken directly to the pending evaluation tasks assigned to the user.