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Degree audit software is an online tool that enables students and academic advisors at higher education institutions to assess progress toward graduation. It aligns a student’s in-progress and completed course work with the requirements of their degree program.
With the advent of degree audit software, the software can be used to audit coursework students have completed, and automatically award degrees and certificates if they have completed the required coursework. This is practiced as a method for increasing degree and certificate completion.
Degree programs each have their own requirements and prerequisites. Students usually need help navigating their degree or certificate pathways, and seek guidance from advisors or registrars. Manual audit systems can be slow, and degree audit software can make this process more efficient. It can help students stay on track to graduate, and then auto-awarding degrees or certificates can get students their desired degrees or certificates quickly to make completion efficient.
Digital credentialing software also operates in the backend of the learning ecosystem and awards credentials to learners for activities in other systems (outside academia). These credentials are often displayed in other learning systems—such as the LMS or LXP—or on social media sites like LinkedIn. The digital credentialing software is heavily reliant on data from other systems to award credentials. Credentials may be awarded automatically via a technical integration with one of the systems that holds the data (Credly, for example, offers services around technical integrations). This can also occur manually—when someone involved in the final stages of a process reviews the data or observes the learner decides whether or not to award a credential.
Auto awarding degrees, certificates or other credentials is a component of providing and verifying credentials, providing credentials, and recordkeeping. It connects with databases and standards.
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