Enrollment agreements, parental consent forms, financial aid documents, and faculty contracts — collected electronically, sealed with PKCS#7, and retained automatically. Built for schools, colleges, and EdTech platforms.
Student enrollment contracts, tuition agreements, and admission acceptance letters. Multi-signer routing handles student and parent/guardian co-signatures.
FAFSA promissory notes, scholarship agreements, and tuition payment plans. Sequential routing ensures student signs before the institution countersigns.
Field trip consent, media release, and health information authorization. High-volume organizations use templates to automate consent collection at scale.
Informed consent for academic research participants. The signed document and audit trail provide the documentation required by IRB and ethics boards.
Offer letters, adjunct contracts, and tenure agreements. Webhook completion triggers HR system updates automatically.
Three-party agreements between institution, employer, and student. Mixed routing handles any combination of sequential and parallel signatures.
Trigger enrollment document signing directly from your SIS when a student's admission status changes. Webhook completion updates the SIS record — no manual step.
Require signed acknowledgments, acceptable use policies, or academic integrity agreements before granting course access. Embed the signing step in your onboarding flow.
Collect signed enrollment agreements and payment plans for online programs. Reusable templates handle repeated document types without re-uploading per student.
Trigger document signing from your mobile backend — never embed credentials in the app. Your server calls GetSigned; students sign via mobile browser with no app install.
Yes. Enrollment agreements, financial aid promissory notes, scholarship agreements, and employment contracts are valid under the US ESIGN Act, UETA, and Canada's PIPEDA. Parents signing consent forms on behalf of minors is also generally permissible. One exception: federal student loan promissory notes (Master Promissory Notes) are handled through the Department of Education's own e-sign system — external eSign APIs are not used for those specific instruments.
Declare the parent or guardian as the signer (not the student). Include the student name in the document but collect the parent's signature, OTP verification, and consent. Multi-signer envelopes work for forms requiring both a parent and a school administrator signature — use sequential routing to ensure the parent signs before the administrator countersigns.
Yes. Create the consent form as a template. For each family, use the template with the specific student and parent details to generate an individual envelope. For a class of 30, you can send 30 concurrent envelope creation and send API calls. Each family gets their own independent signing link, and each completed consent form is individually sealed and retained.
GetSigned is a document signing API — it processes the documents you upload and stores them for the retention period you configure. FERPA compliance is primarily the obligation of the educational institution in how it classifies, accesses, and discloses student records. GetSigned provides appropriate technical safeguards (encryption at rest and in transit, tenant-scoped data isolation, access controls) that support your FERPA compliance program. Contact us if you need a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for your institution.
Yes. Two options: (1) Redirect-based — send signers an email link; they complete signing on GetSigned's hosted signing page (branded with your EdTech product name) and return to your platform. (2) Embedded — generate a signing token via the API and render the signing UI inside an iframe in your product. Both options use the same API and produce the same PKCS#7-sealed document with the same audit trail.
FERPA requires educational institutions to retain education records for a period defined by their records management policy — often 5–7 years after the student's last enrollment. Financial aid documents may require longer retention to comply with US Department of Education audit requirements. Configure GetSigned's per-tenant retention period to match your institution's records schedule.
Related: E-signature legality · Template API · Bulk send guide · Retention policy
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