Your microschool teaches beautifully. On paper, it barely exists.

Most microschools are unaccredited (a National Microschooling Center sector analysis put state accreditation at 22%) and many are invisible to state records systems entirely. The teaching is real and the paper trail is not. So the day a family asks for a transcript, for a college application, a transfer, or a scholarship, you improvise: a homemade letterhead, a parent-issued transcript, a portfolio assembled from photos. The kids deserve better paper than that.

Start as a founding issuer

The three moments this was built for

The first is the transcript request. A family applying to a college, a scholarship, or a job asks you for a transcript. You produce a letter on your own letterhead, and the office receiving it has no way to check it beyond calling you. Some of them do not call. They set it aside.

The second is the compliance filing. New York wants an IHIP and quarterly reports. An ESA program wants an expense report. The same courses get typed into a different form each time, and the paperwork lands on whoever is nearest.

The third is the departure. A family moves, transfers, or graduates, and everything you knew about that learner stays in your files. They start over with a folder.

You are the issuer

A microschool holds learners, which is the only qualification that matters here. You enroll as a founding issuer and import your roster, one learner per line or a CSV export pasted whole. You declare the courses you actually taught, once per course rather than once per student, and each learner who took it gets a signed course row. You add the teacher’s email and that teacher co-signs from a link, with no login and no account, saying they were there and this is what they saw.

Every family then claims the record and holds it. They can add to it, export it, share it, and revoke a share. A college, an employer, or a scholarship program checks it at one public link with no account and no phone call to you, and the receiver’s own published policy says what it needs beyond that. Expect about an hour of setup for a small school and a few minutes per teacher per term. The whole path is written out on the start page.

The founding issuer offer

Schools, microschools, and counselors who issue on the record get a free founding year through June 30, 2027, then pay $49 per learner per year, billed to the issuer and never to the family; founding issuers keep that price for as long as they issue, and if an issuer stops paying, its learners keep the record and its export. There is no setup fee, no per-transcript fee, and no per-verification fee.

Founding issuers are named in the founding cohort and sit in the working group for the record format, which is published at eformogi.com/spec as an open standard. The full offer and the terms are on the issuer page.

The funding era raises the paper stakes

Education money increasingly arrives with documentation attached. ESA families file expense reports, scholarship programs verify eligibility, and the 2025 federal 529 expansion put curriculum, tutoring, and dual-enrollment fees on the qualified list with a record-keeping burden to match. Families in your school carry those duties whether or not anyone helps them. State filings are included for the learners you enroll while you are issuing, and a family outside an issuing school can add Family Pro for the same rendering on its own.

Frequently asked questions

Can a microschool issue transcripts through Eformogi?

That is the whole point. You enroll as a founding issuer, import your roster, and declare the courses you taught. Each declared course becomes a signed course row on that learner's record, and the teacher who taught it co-signs from an emailed link with no login and no account. The family claims the record and holds it. A college, employer, or scholarship program checks it at one public link, and the receiver's own published policy says what it needs beyond that.

What does it cost an operator?

Does this replace accreditation?

No, and we will not describe it that way. A signed record says who taught what, when, and who witnessed it, which is the documentation many colleges ask students of non-accredited programs to provide. What any given receiver requires is written in that receiver's own published policy, and we quote it rather than speak for it.

What happens when a family leaves, or the school closes?

The record goes with the family. You are the issuer and they are the holder, and that does not change if they leave you or if you wind down. Years of declared coursework and teacher signatures survive the move, the transfer, and the closure, and the public link keeps resolving.

What about ESA and scholarship documentation?

Families paying with ESA or scholarship funds carry documentation duties: expense records, sometimes attendance or progress evidence. State filings are included for the learners you enroll while you are issuing, so that paperwork comes off your desk and off the family's.

How do teacher signatures work?

You declare a course and add the teacher's email. The teacher gets one link that opens to exactly what they are being asked to sign, answers it, and is done. A signature says the teacher was there and this is what they saw. It does not grade, compare, or certify, and no student data lands on the teacher's systems.

The learner holds the record

Microschools are small on purpose, and records that live inside small institutions inherit their fragility. A record of learning belongs to the learner, and the school that taught them is its witness and its issuer, not its owner. Your teaching becomes part of a record that outlives every enrollment, including one that ends with you.

Start as a founding issuer

The record is free for the learner, forever. Issuers pay per learner. Verifying one link is free.