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Electronic High School Transcripts
Dennis Crowson
Blinn College
TACRAO Technology Committee
Electronic High School Transcripts
• History of the project
• Outline of the project
• Advantages and Cost savings
• Project status and timeline
Would like to emulate the success of electronic college transcripts
• Process has been proven as successful
• Savings of time and money to transmit college transcripts
• Makes things easier on the students
• Could possibly become larger than college transcript network
History of the project
• TEA contracted with TRIAND Corp. to put all K-12 transcript data online– Web-Enabled Student Transcript (WEST)
Project
• Statewide K-12 database set up• TRIAND writing processes to upload data
from ISD system to database– 10 – 15 K-12 ISIS in Texas
History of the Project (cont.)
• Goal is to have all ISD’s in Texas in database by end of the year
• Have many completed• The system currently houses over 2.4 million
records • Over 700,000 high school students• Over 1,000,000 hits per day• About 250 High Schools
– Heavy in the Houston, Dallas, and Corpus Christi areas
College Involvement
• Contact made with TACRAO and TRIAND• Idea that this could aide lead to electronic
transcripts to colleges hatched• TRIAND presented to the SPEEDE User’s Group• Texas Higher Education Efficiency Committee
identified efficiencies that could be realized• TEXPRESS ad hoc committee formed
THEE Committee
• Committee formed to create high impact efficiencies in student services
• Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors– Members include Troy Johnson and Christie Kangas
• One of their initiatives in their 2004 report was to:– “Develop a statewide system to encourage and facilitate
the use of electronic high school transcripts”
TEXPRESS
• Dennis Crowson
• Dave Stones
• Shelby Stanfield
• Christie Kangas
• Fred Hample
• Mario Lucchesi
• Monique Snowden
Implementation Ideas
• One of the goals is to make it as easy and inexpensive as possible for both colleges and ISD’s
• Request triggered
• Data flow similar to that of SPEEDE college transcripts
• Issues to be resolved
ANSI X12 TS 130
"ExPRESS"(Exchanging Permanent Records Electronically
between Students and Schools)High School Transcript
UT SPEEDE Server
Destination Institutions
ANSI X12 TS 146
Request for Transcript
ISD/Service Center
www.ApplyTexas.orgState of Texas Common Application
For Admission web site.Student requests high school transcript
be sent to chosen institution
TRIANDEducational Solutions
Systems
ANSI X12 TS 130
"ExPRESS"(Exchanging Permanent Records Electronically
between Students and Schools)High School Transcript
UT SPEEDE Server
Destination Institutions
Student requests, in person, high school transcript be sent to chosen institution.
ISD/Service Center
TRIANDEducational Solutions
Systems
Triggering Modalities
• Transcript triggered when students use Texas Common Application– Part of the overall seamless admissions model
• Transcript requested to be sent by the student
• Transcript sent by the high school
• Transcript requested by the college
More on Triggering
• Since many universities need current and final transcripts, some timing issues
• All students do not use the common application, so they will need mechanism
• Universities may only need those final transcripts of students who have been accepted and will attend
Common Application Triggering
• Goal is to have a “one-stop” application process
• Student enters high school code• Either through a query or through an
authentication screen, the HS transcript is requested– FERPA questions still– TS146 sent to TRIAND
Common Application
• Next step is to get test scores from common application in a similar manner
• A “one-stop” application!!!
Data Flow
• Data would go from the ISD’s to the TRIAND statewide database
• Then data would be sent to UT SPEEDE Server via EDI or XML
• Server would treat this similar to a college transcript and package to the individual colleges
SPEEDE Server Side
• Transcript received from TRIAND database
• Packaged and sent to destination colleges in the TS130 format (same format currently used for college transcripts)
• Same as current college transcripts
College Side
• Transcript can be printed as is using the UT provided printing program
• Or SIS could be programmed to download high school data into the college’s database
• Both EDI and XML aspects are being discussed– EDI Implementation first
ANSI X12 TS 130
"ExPRESS"(Exchanging Permanent Records Electronically
between Students and Schools)High School Transcript
UT SPEEDE Server
Destination Institutions
ANSI X12 TS 146
Request for Transcript
ISD/Service Center
www.ApplyTexas.orgState of Texas Common Application
For Admission web site.Student requests high school transcript
be sent to chosen institution
TRIANDEducational Solutions
Systems
What is needed
• ISD Side– Connection with TRIAND database
• Buy one of TRIAND’s other products and will get this free• Other products cost approximately $1/student
– Possibly some way to trigger transcriptCollege Side– Ability to read in high school TS130 into SIS– Can always just print them out
• TRIAND Database– Triggering mechanism– Ability to send EDI or XML to SPEEDE server
Issues
• How to trigger the sending of the transcript?
• Legal issues – FERPA?
• Who will pay for the TRIAND database and support it?
• What data elements do we (colleges) need?
Advantages
• ISD Side– Do not have to print out and mail transcripts– Already connected with TRIAND database
• College Side– Faster receipt of high school transcript– Can automatically enter high school data into SIS
• Student– Transcript should get to college faster– Faster admissions decisions– Not solely dependent on high school to send transcript
Current Costsas identified by the THEE Committee
– Colleges to process HS transcripts(10 min/transcript, $12/hr, 720,000 transcripts)
» $1,440,000– High schools to print transcripts(30 min/transcript, $13/hr, 720,000 transcripts)
» $4,680,000– High schools to mail transcripts
($1 / transcript)
» $ 720,000
Current Costsas identified by the THEE Committee
• Total current annual costs
»$ 6,840,000
New Annual Costsas identified by the THEE Committee
• ISD Costs – (1 minute / transcript @ $12/hr)– $144,000
• College Costs– ($5,000 / College for 100 colleges)– $500,000
• Other statewide costs– $ 6,000
Cost Savings
• Current Annual Costs $ 6,840,000
• New Annual Costs 650,000
• Annual Cost Savings $ 6,190,000
Start-up CostsAs identified by the THEE Committee
Colleges($11,000/college)$1,100,000
Only needed if SIS will be updatedISD’s ($11,000/ half of HS)
($11,000/ half of ISDs) $14,916,000
This is the work TRIAND is currently doing• Total $16,016,000• However these amounts could be much less
Project Status and Timeline
• TEXPRESS Committee members and other pilot schools have sent in mock requests for high school transcripts– 160 were sent to TRIAND– All from the Houston area– All were found in the TRIAND database
Project Status and Timeline
• Meeting with Shelby, TRIAND, myself• TRIAND programmers and UT
programmers are meeting this week– EDI specifications will be discussed
• TRIAND plans to have these back to pilot schools by Dec. 1
• “Gap Analysis” performed by pilot schools during December
Project status and timeline
• During spring TRIAND will implement some triggering mechanisms
• Testing of these done during the spring semester
• Triggering mechanism will be put into the common application during the spring and summer
Project status and timeline
• Production triggering put into place for the common application when the new features are frozen in August
• Available to state participants thereafter
• More information available this afternoon in the EDI workshop session
STATUS
• Not near as far along as we had hoped to be
• Impetus has been placed on TRIAND and hope they will now put more resources on the project
• TRIAND also now doing state of Wyoming– Only about 90,000 students
TEXPRESS Committee
• Dennis Crowson – Blinn College
• Fred Hample – UT San Antonio
• Christie Kangas – Texas State University
• Mario Lucchesi – Univ. of Houston
• Monique Snowden – Texas A&M Univ.
• Shelby Stanfield – UT Austin
• Dave Stones – Southwestern University
Presentation can be found at:
www.blinn.edu
Under Quick Links – Electronic High School Transcripts
