An applicant getting an Educational Credential Assessment from IQAS (the Alberta assessment body) hit the portal's quirk: after uploading the degree certificate, the upload slot closes and there's no way to attach transcripts or other documents separately. The thread's answers:
- Combine documents into one file. The workaround members confirmed: scan the degree certificate and the transcripts together into a single PDF and upload that as the one document. This is how applicants get both credentials in front of the assessor despite the single-slot portal.
- Yes, both degree and transcript are needed. The follow-up exchange confirmed the assessment expects the transcript alongside the degree, not the degree alone — hence the combined-file approach rather than skipping the transcript.
- Label physical transcripts with the file number (all-numeric). For the sealed transcripts sent to IQAS, the applicant asked whether to reference the file number or application number; the answer: use the file number, which is the fully numerical identifier.
Unanswered in the thread: whether applicants can themselves mail university-sealed transcript envelopes (vs. the university sending directly), and how to answer the payment-page question about originals being sent directly to IQAS — no guidance is drawn on those here; confirm against current IQAS instructions.
Note: portal behaviour and document rules are as of this thread and may have changed — always cross-check the current IQAS document checklist.