Some colleges want to see your homeschool transcript as a piece of paper that you mail. Other college, and some other situations, require that you provide your transcript by email.
When you are submitting your transcript electronically, you want to make sure nobody but you can edit it. To make it un-editable, and therefore more official, change your transcript into a PDF document before emailing it. Microsoft Word 2007 will allow you to “Save File as PDF” There are many free resources online that will allow you to convert your documents into a PDF format as well.
Remember to make a PDF transcript when you submit it electronically.
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Luke Holzmann says:
Good tip, Lee!
Is there a special setting for making it so only you can edit the .pdf? I know that I’ve been able to fix typos and links in some .pdfs I’ve been sent (as I have Acrobat Pro). I have fiddled with the security settings, but I know there’s a way to password protect editing of .pdfs as well. Have you found that necessary at all?
~Luke
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July 30th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Lee says:
Hi Luke,
You make a pdf for the college, when you submit the transcript to the college, so you don’t want anyone to edit it at all. You can always edit your own Word document again, and then create a pdf with the updated information. To fix a typo, fix it on the Word document, then make the Word document into a pdf again.
There is such a thing as a typeable pdf, but that’s not the purpose of the transcript. The transcript is meant to be official, and not edited by anyone once it’s done. But as a homeschool parent, you are the school registrar and you can change it when necessary to send it again.
I hope that make sense.
Blessings,
Lee
July 30th, 2010 at 6:45 am