North Dakota launches high school transcript app – StateScoop

The North Dakota Division of Data Know-how has developed a digital pockets for highschool college students to share their transcripts with higher-education establishments and potential employers.

The company claims to be the primary to launch a state-developed digital credential publishing utility for top schoolers. The digital pockets is reside now to districts that allow it for pupil use, and was developed with funding from the Nationwide Middle for Schooling Statistics and Walmart.

“These digital credentials are the longer term for North Dakota and the nation, to permit people company of their learner-employment-experience to realize entry to employment alternatives,” Ravi Krishnan, the state’s chief information officer, mentioned in a press launch. “It’s a game-changer for college students and lifelong learners of all ages and levels of their careers.”

The digital wallets are user-controlled, and expertise may be shared in an nameless and equitable method with potential employers or schooling establishments in a Complete Learner Report — the machine-readable model of a faculty transcript — or as a PDF, officers mentioned. To realize entry to their pockets, college students simply have to log into the state’s schooling portal.

Although designed for highschool college students, NDIT plans to develop it to incorporate grownup learners who wish to create expertise and schooling portfolios. A variety of credentials are already supported by the app, which aligns with Open Badges, a digital credential normal initially created by Mozilla Basis, and now managed by the IMS World Studying Consortium.

“That is about monetizing your expertise and proudly owning your credentials, with the comfort of getting them in your private system,” mentioned Tracy Korsmo, an NDIT program supervisor and architect.

“Badging is exploding, we’re the primary one to supply an actual highschool transcript utility that may serve the citizen as we shift to a skills-based financial system,” Korsmo mentioned.