Using HTML to create your unofficial transcript

While colleges and some employers will want copies of official transcripts, giving them access to your unofficial transcript can often help processes move along a bit quicker. While you could use a textbox in a page to create a table for your unofficial transcript, the textbox would not be saved as an artifact. This has a number of disadvantages. Instead, we are going to use a free web page composer, KompoZer, to create a document for our unofficial transcript. We will build a table to make a nice display for our transcript, and then save it as an HTML file. This will allow us to save this as an artifact, which we will be able to pull into multiple pages. This may be useful in the future.

Getting ready

As mentioned previously, we are going to be using an open source program called KompoZer to build our transcript. You do not need to be familiar with the program as I will walk you through the steps to build your HTML document. Before we...