26 May, 2021
Effective today, Red River College students and graduates will now have 24/7 access to digital transcripts in their own virtual credential wallet.
Through MyCreds™, students will be able to securely and conveniently access and share their academic documents with other colleges and universities, government, employers and third parties. Documents issued through MyCreds™ are tamper-evident and cryptographically signed, making them authentic and official.
MyCreds™ brings tremendous efficiencies to the college which – until now – was performing all transcript processing manually. With their digital adoption strategy, processing times are expected to be cut down exponentially; a typical 20-minute task will now be done automatically and nearly instantaneously.
“Red River College prepares students to become leaders in their fields while also ensuring they can meet changing industry demands,” says Anna Hughes, Director, Enrolment Services and Registrar at Red River College. “We’re proud to be the first institution in the province to join MyCreds™. Through this partnership, our learners will now be able to access their transcripts digitally and share them worldwide making for faster decision making for employers and educational institutions.”
Following the issuance of transcripts, Red River College will later issue parchments to students on the MyCreds™ portal and subsequently confirmation of enrolment letters. This breakthrough technology will provide learners full agency of their academic documents, enhancing student mobility as they move through their college and employment journey.
“We are extremely pleased to see Red River College join the MyCreds™ family,” says Joanne Duklas, Executive Lead, ARUCC. “Red River is blazing a trail of innovation through digitization for learners. With different campuses spread out across the various regions and the challenges introduced by COVID, MyCreds™ will provide the College’s learners just-in-time access to their documents, transcripts and credentials on a 24/7 basis. The College will benefit from accessing official inbound documents from across Canada and around the world through the MyCreds™ receiver module as well.”
MyCreds™ is a national, shared service and platform that provides students and graduates access to a secure, online, password protected learner credential wallet. This virtual wallet allows them to view and share their verified and official transcripts, credentials, and academic documents in a digitized format on a 24/7 basis – anytime, anywhere. It enables peer-to-peer official document and data sharing between issuing organizations such as colleges and universities. Secure, cryptographically signed documents can be sent conveniently and require no further verification. MyCreds™ is the first and only national bilingual system of its kind in Canada. Visit www.mycreds.ca for more details or contact ARUCC’s Executive Lead, Joanne Duklas at info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca.
RRC is Manitoba’s largest institute of applied learning and research, with more than 200 full- and part-time degree, diploma, and certificate options. Through hands-on and online learning opportunities and state-of-the-art instruction, we prepare our students to become leaders in their fields – while also ensuring they can meet changing industry demands and contribute to the province’s economic growth. For more information visit rrc.ca.
The Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) owns MyCreds™. ARUCC provides leadership in the post-secondary education field and service to its member institutions nationally and internationally, helping foster the advancement of registrarial practices and learner focused service delivery in Canada.
Digitary provides the underlying engine powering MyCreds™. Digitary was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and has grown to become a leading online platform for certifying, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learner-centric since the very start, Digitary enables millions of learners to share their verified academic achievements online, securely, quickly and easily. Digitary is now used by organizations in over 135 countries. For further details visit www.digitary.net.
Dayna Robbie, Communications Officer, Red River College. T: 204-803-4617. E: drobbie@rrc.ca
Joanne Duklas, Executive Lead, ARUCC. E: info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca
