How is EDX used in higher education?
EDX is a way to replace paper forms with electronic delivery and exchange of information. By making it possible for two computer systems to communicate, EDX trading partners realize the following benefits:
- Time savings in getting information from the sender to the destination institution
- Increased accuracy of data
- Elimination of data entry at the destination institution
- Data transmitted from the sender is exactly equal to the data received at the destination
- Improved data integrity when used in conjunction with a data encryption software
- Improved privacy of confidential data
- Increased data authenticity
- Cost savings as manual systems are replaced by electronic ones
AACRAO and others have developed a variety of standard formats for use in higher education. These formats have been developed in traditional EDI transaction sets, through ANSI ASC X12, and in XML schemas, through PESC.
| EDI Transaction Sets | XML Schemas |
| Student Transcript (TS 130) | College/HS Trancripts |
| Acknowledgment of a Student Transcript (TS 131) | Acknowledgments |
| Request for a Student Transcript (TS 146) | Request |
| Response to a Request for a Student Transcript (TS 147) | Responose |
| Course Inventory (TS 188) | Course Inventory |
| Educational Testing Results Report and Request (TS 138) | Test Scores |
| Application for Admission (TS 189) | Application for Admission |
Other traditional EDI transaction sets available as X12 standards applicable to education include:
- Student Enrollment Verification (Transaction Set 190)
- Grant or Assistance Application (Transaction Set 194)
- Purchase Order (Transaction Set 850)
- Purchase Order Acknowledgment (Transaction Set 855)
- Invoice (Transaction Set 810)