I have been writing a bi-monthly newsletter sent out to Parchment employees to help them stay current on the credentials market. As many of you following the Parchment blog share our passion for putting credentials to work, we will begin sharing the newsletter and the stories we think are worth discussing. Making a Better Match The Chronicle [...]
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With a mission to unleash education credentials by unlocking the critical data they embody, Parchment has always been a big supporter of data standards. Data standards allow systems to communicate and data to be more easily analyzed, critical to helping Parchment members realize the full potential enabled by transcript exchange. Last week I was in San [...]
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There is a lot of talk in education about electronic transcripts these days. There are conversations around security, data vs. image, cost savings / ROI and many other timely topics that will put you to sleep if you have to listen to them for more than about 5 minutes. I know this as fact because [...]
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At 7AM I headed out to AT&T Park, home of the world champion San Francisco Giants. Escorted through the players’ entrance I was led to a suite of rooms overlooking a magnificent baseball stadium and the San Francisco Bay. The stadium was empty, on the jumbotron was the Parchment logo. The 12 year old me [...]
Continue Reading →Recently I wrote about how the Docufide and Avow names came to be as those names are now being retired, merged as the Parchment Exchange. The Parchment Exchange is more than a new name, but a new concept. While there have been a number of eTranscript services, solutions and networks, we call this an “exchange” [...]
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The name Docufide was born nearly ten years ago when I combined document with Fides, the Roman Goddess of trust (and the root of fidelity). Trusted and secure document exchange has been in our DNA from the start, first as the company’s name when it was founded in 2003 as one of the earliest eTranscript [...]
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When we founded Parchment (as Docufide), transcripts were nearly exclusively exchanged as paper. Students walked their request into the office, their record was located in the student information system, printed, stamped, signed and put into an envelope where it would be mailed and then often scanned or keypunched by the receiver to bring it back [...]
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Electronic Transcript (eTranscript) Exchange goes far beyond allowing students and alumni to order transcripts online. The right partner allows you to outsource as much of your transcript processing as you’d like. Features such as: Online ordering Setting custom eCommerce prices Sending secure PDF transcripts Maintaining your institutional brand Transmitting PESC-XML certified data Printing and mailing [...]
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As an active supporter data standards and statewide e-Transcript initiatives we are excited to announce support for eTranscript California with our latest release. eTranscript California, a statewide electronic transcript exchange supports e-Transcript request and delivery across the state’s postsecondary systems. With this first phase of support, eTranscript California participants within the Parchment network can now [...]
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Stored in student information systems, transcripts were nearly always printed, stamped, signed, and placed into an envelope before being dropped in the mail. When the transcript arrived, much of this process was reversed, with the document opened and often keypunched or scanned and brought back to a digital form. From data to paper and back [...]
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