Viewing and Sharing your Transcript through MyCreds

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Viewing and Sharing your Transcript through MyCreds

If this is your first time receiving a document from Bow Valley College through MyCreds, you will need to follow some basic steps to set up your account. These steps vary slightly depending on where you received the confirmation email.

MyBVC Email Address — All current and former learners who have MyBVC account 1. Select the Register button in the email you received to your MyBVC account:

2. The link will take you to MyCreds registration page. To create your MyCreds account, enter your name and MyBVC account email and create a password to use exclusively with the MyCreds service. You will later have an opportunity to configure a secondary email to use with MyCreds Click on Submit button:

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3. A confirmation email will be generated and sent to your MyBVC account to activate your account. Click on ACTIVATE MY ACCOUNT button to complete your registration:

4. Once signed in, be sure to set up a personal (non-Bow Valley College) email address as an alternate login with MyCreds.

Current learners can access Digitary anytime using MyBVC username and password but adding a personal email address ensures continued access to your documents even after you have left Bow Valley College and your MyBVC account is no longer active. Select the drop-down menu next to your name at the top right-hand corner of the screen and select Profile Settings:

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5. To add a secondary email, click on LINK ANOTHER EMAIL button:

Click on VERIFY button that will appear to verify your personal email address as secondary:

You will see a pop-up message notifying you that a verification email was sent to your secondary email account.

You will need to open verification email in your personal email account to verify it by clicking on VERIFY button:

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Now that you have added your personal email address as secondary, will be able to sign in to your My Creds account using any of the two email addresses, if they have been verified. The same My Creds password can be used with each email.

You can make your personal email account primary in your MyCreds account by clicking on MAKE PRIMARY button:

IMPORTANT: If you have set up your alternate email address as primary, please make sure that you DO NOT REMOVE your MyBVC email account from your MyCreds account. Bow Valley College will still issue your official transcript to your MyBVC email account, and we are only able to issue documents to MyBVC email account if it is assigned to your MyCreds profile:

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Personal Email Address – Former learners with no MyBVC account

1. Select the Registerbutton in the email you received to your personal account:

2. Follow the instructions provided by MyCreds to set up your account. Be sure to use the same email address at which you received the MyCreds confirmation, otherwise you may not be able to access your document:

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3. After initial registration or adding a secondary email, you will receive an email verification pop- up box. Be sure to confirm your email address to complete your registration and ensure continued access to your MyCreds account:

Please refer to above for more detailed instructions and screenshots about how to set up your MyCreds account once you receive the initial email that your requested document has been issued by Bow Valley College.

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All Learners — Account already set up

Once you have set up your account, you can visit MyCreds Portal directly and sign in with either your MyBVC account and password or the personal email address you configured:

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Viewing and Sharing Your Transcripts

Once signed in, you will be presented with the documents that are available for viewing and sharing. Select the appropriate document to continue.

Next, you will be presented with a preview of your document, where you can download a copy for your personal review and use, or you can select the SHARE button to securely share your official transcript with a third party.

Once you have created shares for your document, you will be able to review these using the Access Control tab. You can also review the history of this document, including all transactions such as when the document was created and/or shared. This can be done using the Historytab.

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To share a document, select the SHAREbutton to get started. You can share the document in one of two ways:

1. Using a link that is emailed to the recipient

2. Directly through the MyCreds portal to other registered organizations

To share via email, ensure you select the Generate a link to my documents option.

You can give the share a name and purpose for your own reference using the Share name and Purpose of share fields on this page. These will not be seen by the recipient.

Enter the recipient’s email address and include a reference number if required. The reference number

could be anything to help the recipient identify you when your document is received. This could be a reference number, client number, application number, etc.

Important: Sharing a document will use the one available share credit that you have. Please double check to ensure that you have entered the recipient’s information correctly before continuing. The Access PINand Expirydate fields are optional but can add an extra level of security to the document. You will need to notify the recipient of the PIN for the document to be accessible to them. The expiry date will ensure that the recipient can only access the document for a limited time.

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Downloading Your PDF Transcripts

To download a secured PDF file of your official transcript, please follow these steps: 1. Click on the SHARE button to open Document Sharing window.

2. Select Generate link to my documents.

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4. Click on SHARE button in the Confirmation of share window:

5. Click on COPY LINK button in the Share your document window:

6. Go to a web browser and copy the link into it.

7. A page with your official transcript will open. Click on DOWLOAD PDF button to download the PDF file of your transcript:

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8. Check Downloads folder on your computer to access the PDF file and move it elsewhere if you wish to do so. Please not that downloading your official transcript uses the one share credit that you have available. If you wish to share your transcript with an institution using the share method described above, please note that you will need to submit a new official transcript request to

[email protected] Helpful Tip:

• If you have attended other education providers that have partnered with MyCreds, you can link your accounts to view your documents all in one place; this can be done through the