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Live Trial Planning

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An exciting outcome from the original My Skills project is that the SQA, APPII and the City of Glasgow College are planning a live trial to issue digital SQA certificates to graduates of the College. We are working on a phased roadmap to allow us to explore the kind of technical and cultural issues that we uncovered in the original project. We will issue updated on our progress on this web site.

Final Outputs Published

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The Final Outputs of the My Skills Project – the White Paper and the Generic Model – have been completed and published on the project web site as downloadable PDFs – here’s the link. It’s been a lot of work and has led us into some wide-ranging discussions about the certification of vocational learning with and without blockchain. Our project partner APPII is hoping to initiate a trial with a UK awarding body this year – watch this space for further news!

My Skills White Paper Cover
My Skills White Paper Cover
My Skills Generic Model
My Skills Generic Model Cover

Digital Certificate Integration Walkthrough – Stills

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This set of stills illustrates the manual integration of a blockchain based digital certification system into an awarding body’s business processes. There are a range of possible integrations available from manual, semi auto all the way to automatic issuing of digital certificates to learners in cohorts (that would be the desired goal). All this is underpinned by the biometric identification of the user – to see the full story please read our white paper at https://myskills.org.uk/my-skills-blockchain-white-paper/

Step 1 User Home Page Mobile View – users can use both web and mobile versions
Step 2 Web View – User starts to create a claim for a qualification – a HND in Business. ONce the user presses the green button the request is sent to the awarding body
User Home Page
Step 3 User Home Page Web View – Claim is recorded in the system but not send to the awarding body / SQA / College – so APPII icon appears as grey
Step 3 Web View – User has created a claim for a HND and gone back in to the system and sent the request for the HND – so APPII icon is now yellow = waiting waiting for a response. The user has also done the same for a set of School Qualifications also set at yellow status
Step 4 This is what the awarding body verifier sees as a qualification claim in their dashboard. If they are happy they will click the green button to award the certificate to the users blockchain account
Step 5 After the verifier at the awarding body has accepted the claim this is what they see in their dashboard – accepted = green
Step 6 The users claim to have a verified qualification has been accepted and now appears in their home screen as green = accepted and verified.
Step 7 The verified qualification is now available to the user to include in their CV builder to share with peers and in job applications.
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Digital Certificate Integration Walkthrough – Video

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This screen movie demonstrates the verification of an SQA qualification manually in the test environment of the APPII blockchain system. Behind the scenes it uses processes and information that are closely similar to the way existing requests for a replacement paper certificate are handled.

This represents the first stage of integration between APPII and awarding body qualification system – a manual operation. There are a range of levels of integration available from semi-automatic to fully automatic issuing of digital certificates to cohorts of students.

It’s Out! The My Skills White Paper – Draft is Published

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After quite a bit of work, the draft White Paper has been published. You can find it here. The next steps are to gather feedback and create a final version before creating the generic model for the adoption of digital certificates.

So far, the project has been fascinating to work on – turning up a lot of ‘unexpected outcomes’.

My Skills White Paper Cover - Draft
My Skills White Paper Cover – Draft