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  OVERVIEW
  
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  PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE CHECKS
  
  POST ASSESSMENT
  
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OVERVIEW

The Guaranteed Underwriting System (GUS) course is designed to help lender employees become familiar with the structure of GUS and to efficiently navigate through the system. The course covers the automated underwriting processing steps in GUS and not the full range of loan operations covered by the Guaranteed Loan System. This course is not intended to replace the Rural Development Instructions and Administrative Notices, which are the official sources of policy and program information for Guaranteed Rural Development Loan Programs.

The course consists of five lessons and will take approximately two hours to complete.

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AUDIENCE

This course is intended for lender employees.

 
 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

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PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE CHECKS

Practice and Knowledge Checks are found throughout this course. The following are the types of questions that might be included and descriptions of each:

Multiple Choice

These questions are answered by selecting the radio button(s) that correspond to the correct answer(s). Each question has one or more correct answers associated with it. After making a selection, click the Submit button to check the accuracy of the response.

Two types of multiple choice questions may be used.
1. Multiple choice-single answer questions – Only one of the choices will be correct
2. Multiple choice-multiple answer questions – More than one of the choices will be correct.
True/False These questions are answered by selecting the radio button adjacent to the correct answer. After making a selection, click on the Submit button to check its accuracy.


 

POST TEST

No Post Assessment (Test) is required at the end of this course.


  
 

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION

This web-based training has been designed to be accessible by users with disabilities, in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220). This course also has been designed and tested to work with the JAWS® for Windows screen reader software, available from Freedom Scientific, Inc. (http://www.freedomscientific.com).



 
 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Lender employees requiring help on the Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program and this training course should go to http://eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov/eligibility/welcomeAction.do?pageAction=GetRHContact&NavKey=contact@12