A convenient digital storage system can be created for any school or university system. All educational systems have large recordkeeping needs. All departments from the professors to the individual students can be included in a digital databank. Imagine the mounds of paperwork needed during a students twelve to sixteen years of education. It can all be stored in one massive databank separated by department by using educational document scanning services.
Space and security are major considerations. Often a document is not needed for three to five years or more. Then suddenly, it must be found for an important reason. Searching through a filing cabinet or a box of old documents is both time consuming and sometimes fruitless. Information can be lost or stolen.
Storage, even of seemingly lightweight things such as documents, is quite costly. Digital storage eliminates the space problem. A databank is set up and papers are scanned and then filed in an easy to find way.
Ten years after an exam, a student comes back and says there was a B on an exam that was originally marked as an A. Records in digital format do not lie. His or her transcript can be proven to have sent out all the correct grades for this student. The argument disappears in the face of indisputable evidence.
Every school has a specific way of doing things. The document scanning service is flexible and each school can use their own version of a databank in the way they prefer. The order of the digital files is adjustable and can be by name or social security number. Every department in a university system can have its own section containing its own records. It makes future statistical research easy to start.
Student records are separated from faculty records. A search of a professor or teachers employment history is easy to pull up. Perhaps there have been numerous complaints that must be investigated. It will be easy to discover if the same student has a tendency to complain about all his teachers.
Office personnel can find out if any sexual harassment charges have been filed against a supervisor and who filed them. Compilations of statistics can be made easily using an index. For example, the choice of a valedictorian can be determined by evaluating all grade-point averages.
Perhaps most importantly, digital records cannot deteriorate and become illegible over time. Printed copies are made quickly. Such a scanning and storage service saves time, and as we know, time is money. The convenience alone is well worth the cost.
Space and security are major considerations. Often a document is not needed for three to five years or more. Then suddenly, it must be found for an important reason. Searching through a filing cabinet or a box of old documents is both time consuming and sometimes fruitless. Information can be lost or stolen.
Storage, even of seemingly lightweight things such as documents, is quite costly. Digital storage eliminates the space problem. A databank is set up and papers are scanned and then filed in an easy to find way.
Ten years after an exam, a student comes back and says there was a B on an exam that was originally marked as an A. Records in digital format do not lie. His or her transcript can be proven to have sent out all the correct grades for this student. The argument disappears in the face of indisputable evidence.
Every school has a specific way of doing things. The document scanning service is flexible and each school can use their own version of a databank in the way they prefer. The order of the digital files is adjustable and can be by name or social security number. Every department in a university system can have its own section containing its own records. It makes future statistical research easy to start.
Student records are separated from faculty records. A search of a professor or teachers employment history is easy to pull up. Perhaps there have been numerous complaints that must be investigated. It will be easy to discover if the same student has a tendency to complain about all his teachers.
Office personnel can find out if any sexual harassment charges have been filed against a supervisor and who filed them. Compilations of statistics can be made easily using an index. For example, the choice of a valedictorian can be determined by evaluating all grade-point averages.
Perhaps most importantly, digital records cannot deteriorate and become illegible over time. Printed copies are made quickly. Such a scanning and storage service saves time, and as we know, time is money. The convenience alone is well worth the cost.
About the Author:
Loris F. Anders is an office management specialist focused on optimizing workflow processes in document management. If you would like to learn more about University document scanning solutions he recommends you check out www.docufree.com.
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