Hundreds of thousands of students pass through the school system annually. The volume of records that academic institutions must maintain grow year after year: attendance sheets, exam report cards, academic transcripts, exchanges, and documents related to student loans, scholarships, and sponsorships.

Education institutes are legally required to preserve some of these records over long periods. In the past, these records were largely paper-based. Millions of pages were filed, stored in cabinets, and stuffed into basements and storage spaces, with entire rooms dedicated to storing these legacy records.

Managing your students' academic records – both before and after they graduate – is a critical function of your educational institution. Because it is so important, you should always be taking steps to enhance the student record management process. One step that you should be taking right now is investing in digital student records. Here are the reasons why:

If you work in a school office, chances are you are more than familiar with the hundreds of thousands of files containing student records, transcripts and other documents that are taking up space. Student records that by law you are obligated to keep for years and years. Did you ever think that there's probably nothing you can do about it? Wrong! There's a solution. An affordable one.

In part 3 of this blog post we discussed the challenges educational facilities face in regards to student records management and how a document management company’s records management solutions can address these challenges. In this blog post we will discuss the key challenges educational facilities face in regards to facility records management and how a document management company’s records management solutions can also help address these challenges.

Educational institutions also face a number of key challenges in regards to facility services document management. Similar to student records, facility services documents are not commonly stored in a central repository, which makes collaboration, disaster recovery and remote access more difficult if not impossible. Additionally, these institutions lack the ability to manage internally and externally created document and drawings in various formats and struggle greatly with retention control.

In part 2 of this blog post we discussed the benefits of a high quality document management company’s record management solutions. In this blog post we will discuss the challenges educational facilities face in regards to student record management and how quality student record management solutions can address these challenges.

Educational institutions face a number of key challenges in regards to student records management including the fact that too often at these institutions information and documents are being doubled and triple keyed due to the lack of a central repository. Additionally, records managers spend too much time dealing with dated technology as opposed to focusing on their core business tasks.

In part 1 of this blog post we discussed the fact that educational institutions in need of a secure online record management solution to store and protect their facility and student records need to look no further than their local document management company. In this blog post we will discuss the benefits of high quality record management solutions.

Document management companies implement departmental and campus wide educational facility and student records management solutions for colleges and universities as well as K-12 institutions. These document management solutions allow educational institutions of all sizes to increase employee productivity, eliminate manual paper processes and reduce waste.