Prior Learning Assessment Management System

The Vendor is required to provide prior learning assessment management system has notable limitations related to scalability, usability, integration with modern academic and administrative systems, and long-term sustainability.
- Requirement
•    The prior learning assessment (PLA) platform is the system used by students, evaluators, advisors, and staff to facilitate and manage the individualized credit for prior learning (ICPL) process.
•    The platform, students submit documentation and evidence of their learning (e.g., essays or portfolios).
•    Then assigned to assess the submissions and may engage directly with students to further evaluate their knowledge.
•    The current platform supports a structured, multi-step workflow that manages ICPL requests from initial submission through final approval and posting of awarded credit to the banner student information system (SIS). 
•    It also maintains a roster of qualified evaluators for assignment and integrates with the institution’s payment system.
•    Empire is seeking a responsive and responsible bidder to migrate the current HCL environment to a modern prior learning assessment (PLA) platform that will, among other benefits, improve efficiency, transparency, reporting capabilities, accessibility compliance, and the overall user experience for students, faculty, evaluators, academic units, and administrative staff.