26 July, 2023
Effective today, Sault College students and graduates will now have 24/7 access to official transcripts in their own virtual credential wallet through MyCreds™. This new partnership provides our students and graduates with accessible and convenient digital access to their official transcripts with the potential to expand available educational documents in the future.
Through MyCreds™, students will securely and conveniently access and share their transcripts 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.
“Sault College is committed to a student-centred approach to the learning experience and this newest partnership complements this by offering secure, convenient, and digital access to official transcripts for both students and graduates,” says Katie Paquette, Interim Registrar, Sault College. “The transition to this digital solution through MyCreds™ will help to streamline the process of obtaining academic documents and further support our students and graduates pursing their academic and professional goals,”
“Seeing yet another Ontario college launch on MyCreds is exciting,” says Don Duclos, representative for the Ontario Committee of Registrars, Admissions and Liaison Officers (CRALO} on the ARUCC Board and registrar at Confederation College. “Ontario colleges have widely adopted MyCreds to satisfy the range of needs for digital document sharing across the learner life cycle. With MyCreds, we are all reaching higher to deliver more seamless, 24/7 access for learners through virtual wallets as they move into, through and beyond college and into the workforce.”
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.
The vision of Sault College is to provide a transformative life experience through empowering those who study with us to think and learn in progressive, innovative ways, including those we have not yet imagined. Sault College grants Ontario College certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, graduate certificates, and degrees to its graduates. The College is the largest deliverer of apprenticeship training in all of Northern Ontario. Sault College has a significant economic impact on the community, with spin-offs in excess of $355 million. Over $2 million dollars in scholarships, bursaries and awards are distributed annually to students at the College. Located on the border to the United States and situated in the middle of three of the largest Great Lakes on the planet, in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Sault College is one of 24 publicly-funded colleges in the province of Ontario.
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.
MEDIA RELEASE – July 26, 2023
Rachel MacDonald, Communications and Media Lead, Rachel.macdonald@saultcollege.ca
Joanne Duklas, Executive Lead, ARUCC, info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca