Need to standardize digital student transcripts nationwide

At a recent training conference on piloting digital report cards and building and exploiting digital learning materials for primary schools, Mr. Ho Tan Minh, Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training (GD-DT) of Ho Chi Minh City, requested that schools deploy digital report cards at the same time as grade books to synchronize and authenticate students' learning outcomes.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, the city has now prepared software and solutions for schools to implement digital transcripts. The education sector has had 2 years to prepare for the implementation of digital transcripts and now all teachers in Ho Chi Minh City have digital signatures - a mandatory requirement in digital administrative transactions.

According to the plan, in the 2024-2025 school year, digital report cards will be deployed for grade 6 and the entire report card database of primary and secondary school students will be digitized. In the 2025-2026 school year, this process will be implemented for grade 10 students and the entire report card database of high school students will be digitized. According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, digital report cards will be implemented free of charge for students. Not only in Ho Chi Minh City, but many other provinces and cities have also begun to deploy digital report cards.

Digital transcripts will replace traditional paper transcripts. It will help store student information accurately, permanently, and easily look up and update for administrative activities that use transcripts, such as when transferring schools or considering admission. The advantage is that now each student has a personal identification number. Each student's digital transcript is also identified by this code, making it convenient for management and information lookup.

Currently, there are many digital report card templates issued by enterprises or developed by localities. This requires a unified national standard so that digital report cards can be connected to the information management system of the Ministry of Education and Training, and have nationwide value. The Ministry of Education and Training needs to develop a unified digital report card template and assign it to each provincial and municipal Department of Education and Training to centralize data from schools in the area. From the department's database, it will connect and synchronize with the ministry's database and the national database. Having too many digital report card templates can cause difficulties in connecting and synchronizing data, including technical compatibility issues.

Of course, the data of digital report cards not only needs to be accurate and authenticated but also strictly confidential. That is the responsibility from the teacher who enters the data all the way up to the national database and organizations that have the right to access digital report cards.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/can-chuan-thong-nhat-hoc-ba-so-ca-nuoc-19624062522125686.htm