03-22-2018, 08:04 AM
(03-20-2018, 12:37 PM)dfrecore Wrote: I've never seen that NCCRS charges a fee for their transcripting service. I wonder if that's one of the rules from them - "you can get NCCRS approved, but you can't charge to send the transcript."?
So, one thing about Study.com is that many of their courses are both ACE and NCCRS approved. So anything that's NCCRS would HAVE to be sent directly. If you take a course that's both, then you can choose (and it would be cheaper and easier to have them send directly for you). Not sure why an ACE recommended course would HAVE to be sent directly, it's kind of a strange requirement.
Also, at some point in the future, a company could go out of business (think DreamDegree in it's many iterations, JumpCourse, JavaOnline.org). If they were NCCRS approved, there would be no way to get the transcript at that point. So the ability to credit bank at ACE is huge. I have credits from a company that was approved through ACE when I took courses in 2000, and though they are still around, they've changed names, and are no longer in the ACE database. But, I called them directly, asked them to put the credits in my ACE account, and ACE worked with them to get those on there for me.
I agree!! I've always been a little bit OCD about having everything on an ACE transcript the second a course is complete. I haven't had to record NCCRS for myself or my teens, so I'm unfamiliar with that process - but I thought I just read here yesterday that NCCRS doesn't have a transcript service? So, what about NCCRS courses with someone like Saylor? They don't have a transcript either- where do your credits get stored? I feel like I should know, but it hasn't come up with us yet.