8 September, 2021
HEC is partnering with MyCreds™️, the bilingual shared service platform owned by the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC), to offer a secure and certified service to its students, 27% of whom come from abroad.
HEC Montréal is the first French language university in Canada and the first university in Quebec to join the MyCreds™️ National Network. HEC is strengthening its digital shift in terms of document management within the Registrar’s Office. In total, HEC Montréal plans to issue more than 9,500 official transcripts per year via the platform. Thanks to MyCreds™️, students and graduates will be able to easily receive, store, and electronically share their transcripts with other institutions, employers, government agencies and other third parties. HEC Montréal also has a significant number of international students from some 144 countries, and this new tool will greatly simplify procedures with their country of origin.
“This initiative will allow us to offer our community more flexible and autonomous access to their certified official documents,” explains Virginie Lefebvre, Registrar, HEC Montréal. “Given the opportunities to pursue lifelong learning, it goes without saying that the administrative experience within a university must be simple, efficient and secure.”
“We are thrilled to welcome HEC Montréal to the MyCreds™️ Network,” says Romesh Vadivel, Past-President, ARUCC. “HEC Montréal is the first school in a growing list of French language institutions who are going live this year, a tremendous achievement for our Association and for our community.”
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 also enables sharing between organizations with the learner’s permission. 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.
HEC Montréal is an internationally renowned business school, with over 15,000 students, and trains more than 9,000 executives and managers every year. The School holds many prestigious accreditations, and offers over 100 programs of study from the bachelor’s to doctoral levels. It has 36 research chairs, including 7 Canada Research Chairs. With a faculty of 300, HEC Montréal offers programs in several languages and attracts students from 144 countries. Since its founding in 1907, the School has trained more than 100,800 students in all fields of management.
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.
MEDIA RELEASE – 8 SEPTEMBER 2021
Émilie Novales, Senior Media Relations Advisor, HEC Montréal. E: emilie.novales@hec.ca
Joanne Duklas, Executive Lead, ARUCC. E: info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca
