DISQUS

I work in higher ed web dev and I'll certainly agree that colleges are extremely slow on the uptake of new technology. There needs to be some sort of mechanism that allows administration to review business processes every year (enhanced with student satisfaction surveys) and see if any new technologies allow for more efficient returns.

However, in this particular case with transcripts, there are a lot of legal issues involved (especially FERPA as someone else mentioned). In many cases a written signature is still required by law, and what constitutes an "online signature" is still murky.

The other issue is that even if the college staff used IM or twitter to communicate, they would likely become overburdened with requests very quickly and response times would still lag. Plus, most college staff wear 5 different hats anyway and do things beyond their job description because of a lack of sufficient people/budgets, which is why most are not receptive to changing thing which could potentially increase their workload even more.

Hopefully we'll get there.....at some point.

Thank you so much for this post! We've been using Soundslides for about 8 months and have been looking for a way to convert them to videos for our YouTube account. This is perfect.

How did you get ASCAP/BMI licensing? Is it mega-expensive?