Accounting for Students Intermediate Attestation Data Using Blockchain Technologies

In the context of reforming the higher education system in the Russian Federation, the issues of meeting certain requirements and provisions of regulatory and legal acts related to digitalization and informatization of the learning process and accounting for its results are of particular relevance. In order to improve the quality of students education, various automation systems and educational management systems are currently being intensively implemented in educational institutions of the Russian Federation. The analysis of open sources of information conducted by the authors team has shown that cases of falsification of educational documents in order to mislead employers about the actual formation of certain competencies of an employee of the company are still possible. The reason for this problem is that universities often keep records of learning outcomes «on paper» without using computerization tools, which does not exclude the possibility of re-registration of students credit lists and credit books retroactively. The article describes the developed demonstration prototype of an automated system for recording the results of intermediate certification of students in a higher education institution. In order to avoid making changes to accounting documents, the development of the prototype used the capabilities of blockchain technology, which has proven to be effective in preserving the integrity of user data. In addition, based on the experience of implementing other automation systems, requirements were formed for the system of accounting for the results of intermediate certification of students in higher education institutions. The use of the developed system will increase the complexity of entering data into the system retroactively to an unacceptable level, or this possibility will be excluded altogether.