As a newly accepted student, this is your starting point for the steps you’ll want to take before classes start and before the end of your first semester.
Complete by 1st Semester
Set Up Your DTS Account
When you were accepted, you should receive an email within 3 business days granting you access to your yourname@dallasseminary.edu email. If you have not received an email about your new account within 3 business days, please contact the DTS IT Team at: helpdesk@dts.edu or 214-887-5230.
Setup Your @dallasseminary.edu Account
Important Websites to Bookmark
- www.dts.edu – our main school website.
- students.dts.edu – this website which has information about what’s happening at our locations.
- portal.dts.edu – where you login for registration, applying for scholarships, paying your bill, finding important dates, and more
- online.dts.edu – where you go for your classes, course materials, videos, assignments, etc.
- library.dts.edu – search books at DTS libraries or online and to download templates for DTS papers
- DTS Technology – find information about wifi and online requirements here
- Logos Bible Software – See the tab below labeled “Set Up Logos Bible Software.”
- DTS Course Schedule – shows all available classes and lets you filter by your local campus
- Degree Plan Examples – examples of how to complete your degree part-time or full-time
- Transfer and Advanced Standing – information on how to test out of courses before you begin
- Time Management Calculator – a tool to help you plan out your time in a typical semester
- Important Dates – find out important dates like registration dates and payment deadlines
- April 1 – Summer Courses
- July 1 – Fall Courses
- November 1 – Spring and Winter Courses
DTS donors make more than $5 million in scholarship dollars available every year which helps ensure that very few students need to take out student loans.
Apply for Need-based Scholarships
US Students
The requirements for need-based scholarships for US students are:
- Be in one of the following degree programs:
ThM, MABC, MACP, MAJS, MAAE, MACE, MACL, MAIS, MAMW, MABEL, MACS, MA, DMin, EdD, DEdMin, or PhD. - Maintain a minimum GPA of at least 2.5
- Employment preferred
- Dallas and Online students need to take 9+ hours, Houston and Washington, DC students need to take 6+ hours
The deadlines for need-based scholarships for new US students are:
- May 1 for Fall courses
- November 1 for Spring courses
Additional Resources
International Students
If you are an international student studying in the US on a visa, you will need to prove funding for your first year of studies in the United States as part of the visa process. Once you have started taking classes in the United States, you may then apply for scholarships for your second year of studies. More information will be communicated to you during the visa process.
This is a required 6-week course designed to help first year master’s level students reflect upon their current reality and develop a plan to meet potential challenges, both inside and outside the classroom, in order to complete their studies at DTS.
This course is best done prior to enrolling in classes or during the student’s first semester. This course is free to enroll in but all assignments are required for completion credit.
Set Up Your Logos Account
Any enrolled DTS student taking a course for credit will be given access to Logos Bible Software before the beginning of their first course. First, DTS will have your Logos account created. Once the account is ready, you will receive notification via email from Faithlife. In most cases, your new Logos account will be associated with the personal email you have on file with DTS.
Once you receive notification from Faithlife, click the button below to begin using Logos.
All new students are encouraged to complete the Getting Started with Logos course before classes begin.
Additional training opportunities and detailed information about Logos for DTS students can be found at www.dts.edu/logos.
If you have questions, contact Chris McMaster at cmcmaster@dts.edu.
DTS-Dallas
Spring 2024 Logos Training
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Spring 2024 New Student Welcome Dinner
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Spring 2024 New Student Orientation
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Spring 2024 New Student Orientation
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DTS-Atlanta
Spring 2024 New Student Orientation
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DTS-Online
Spring 2024 New Student Orientation
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Register Your Vehicle (Dallas Campus Only)
DTS Dallas vehicle registration is now open for the 2023-24 school year. Please register your vehicle now to receive a 2023-24 parking decal.
Once your form is submitted, students can pick up their decals at the Student Life office located in the Bailey Student Center. Please allow one week processing before you pick up your parking pass.
Please register below:
Register for a Student ID Card
Please click on the following link below to order a Student ID Card. Student ID Card’s will be processed by the third week of classes. Once they are ready, an email will be sent and students can pick-up their ID Card at the front desk of the Student Life Office located in the Bailey Student Center. If you are an online student, your ID will be mailed to you.
Sign-up for Text-Alerts and Right Now Media
Omnilert is the DTS Alerts System that sends out SMS messages related to campus closings, emergencies, events and deadlines.
Right Now Media
All students at Dallas Theological Seminary receive a free membership to RightNow Media. RightNow Media has over 15,000 Bible study videos from over 250 top Christian publishers and ministries. RightNow Media has studies for small groups, families, students, leadership development, and much more.
To sign up for your free account, go to https://www.rightnowmedia.org/Account/Invite/DTS (Links to an external site.)
OR you can just text RIGHTNOW DTS (not case sensitive) to 41411 and a link will be sent
Complete by End of 1st Semester
The Test of Biblical and Theological Knowledge (TBTK) is taken by all incoming students and by all graduating students. The purpose of this assessment is for the faculty to get a sense of the overall biblical and theological knowledge of an incoming or graduating class. The seminary does not look at an individual student’s score on this assessment, only the overall average of the incoming or graduating class.
This test is a closed Bible, closed book assessment that is to be taken by yourself without any help. The test is not to be copied, imaged, photographed, or otherwise reproduced.
This test is 150 questions, 75 Bible and 75 Theology. There is a time limit of 75 minutes which starts once you proceed. This gives you an average of 30 seconds per question.
All new students will receive a Canvas course invitation link through their @dalllasseminary email before the start of their first semester. Please accept the TBTK course invitation and take the test before the end of your first semester.
DTS is committed to maintaining an environment conductive to learning for all students and a professional workplace for its employees. As such we take active measures against discriminatory harassment and sexual harassment, including any type of violence or misconduct.
Our entire policy can be read at www.dts.edu/title-ix , you can also download it here – Fall 2019 Final Title IX Abuse & Discrimination brochure 2019.pdf
DTS and Ministry Safe have partnered to offer Child Protection Training. This proactive education seeks to equip current students and DTS alumni with a clear understanding of child sexual abuse, sexual abusers, effective preventative protocols, a compassionate model of care addressing the needs of abuse survivors, and an appropriate response to abuse allegations arising in church and ministry environments.
To register, go to https://safetysystem.ministrysafe.com/register/dts
You will be asked some basic info to get you registered on the Ministry Safe training site:
Under Employee/Volunteer, select “volunteer”
Under Type of Training, select “Sexual Abuse Awareness Training (2018)”
Once you complete the Ministry Safe training (which will take you about an hour to complete), there is a brief quiz on the Ministry Safe training website. After you complete this quiz with a passing score, you will receive a certificate on the Ministry Safe training website.
Your final step is to upload this certificate and email it to studentlife@dts.edu.
Note: If you have previously completed Ministry Safe at your church or your place of service, you can simply upload a copy of your certificate from your previous training and send it to the above email address.
