This webinar will present how a university-based in-house admission and credential evaluation team learned to move beyond the paper and embrace digital credential verification. While the University of Helsinki was gradually moving towards a more digital credential evaluation process, COVID brought sudden challenges that forced us to quickly embrace a wide variety of digital credential verification methods. We quickly realized the challenges in working with a plethora of different ways to digitally verify credentials. While a stamped paper document is more or less the same everywhere, when it comes to digital verification methods, everyone keeps reinventing the wheel. For the evaluator, new skills and constant follow-up work are needed. In this webinar we will share our experiences as in-house credential evaluators and talk about concrete challenges that we face in our daily work when evaluating different digital verification methods while being constrained by the admission schedules of the university. We invite you to join our discussion with your own experiences.

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