As part of Lethbridge College’s ongoing commitment to embracing digital solutions and adopting sustainable practices, the Registrar’s Office announced today that the college has joined a national network and will offer all official transcripts securely and electronically through MyCreds.ca.
Moving forward, Lethbridge College will discontinue issuing paper transcripts and instead securely issue verified digital transcripts to students and alumni. Other institutions that use MyCreds.ca include the universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge; NAIT and SAIT; Bow Valley College, Medicine Hat College and Olds College, and more across Canada.
“Digital credentials provide an improved experience for students and grads who need to access and share their transcripts,” explains Jean Schnarr, business systems analyst in the college’s Registration office. “It will speed up the process of providing transcripts and credentials to employers or other post-secondary institutions while being tamper-proof and secure. This means it will speed up decision-making processes by employers and educational providers, too.”
In the course of a year, Lethbridge College typically issues about 8,000 transcripts to students, post-secondary institutions, employers and governing bodies. This number includes transcripts delivered electronically to all Alberta post-secondary institutions, which the college has been doing this since 2018. But of the 8,000, about 4,500 have been paper transcripts.
Starting in the fall of 2020, Canadian universities, colleges, and institutes began making the change to the MyCreds network. This ground-breaking, pan-Canadian initiative has been led by the Association of Registrar’s of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) in collaboration with Canadian universities, colleges, and institutes to enhance student mobility, mitigate credential fraud, and create enhanced service that supports Canada’s learners as they move through their academic and professional careers.
“At ARUCC, we are committed to supporting a wide variety of post-secondary institutions across Canada as they onboard to MyCreds,” says Joanne Duklas, executive lead of the ARUCC National Network. “Today, we are thrilled to welcome Lethbridge College to the network. We are pleased to partner with the college to extend their digitized service delivery by using innovative technology to provide virtual credential wallets for their learners.”
MyCreds.ca enables academic records such as transcripts to be certified digitally and securely stored online. Lethbridge College students and grads will have direct and any time access to their records, to view, download and share with anyone they choose. More information about this new process can be found on the college’s website.