Competency-based education transcript system

The system you’re looking for is generally a Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR)—more specifically, a competency-enabled digital learner record rather than a conventional credit-hour transcript.

• CLR (1EdTech) is designed to record achievements beyond courses and credit hours, including competencies, skills, badges, prior learning, internships, and experiential learning.www.1edtech.org
• The current CLR 2.0 transcript specification explicitly supports cases where the competency itself is the achievement, with assessments/results attached to it. That makes it suitable for competency-based and mastery-based programs.www.1edtech.org+2
• PESC's traditional transcript standard remains primarily course/grade/credit oriented, so it isn't by itself the ideal model for representing competency attainment.pesc.org
• For programs where students progress without credit or clock hours, the U.S. Department of Education calls these direct-assessment CBE programs. That's the educational model; CLR is the record/data model that can represent the resulting competencies.www.ed.gov

In practical terms

If you're designing a system for non-traditional learners, I'd think of the stack as:

Competency-based program → competency/assessment data → CLR 2.0 → verifiable digital learner record

rather than:

Courses → credit hours → GPA → traditional transcript

There's also a broader Learning and Employment Record (LER) concept, which encompasses higher-ed CLR data plus verified skills and achievements across learning and workforce contexts. AACRAO describes LERs as specifically intended to capture learning that traditional transcripts don't usually represent.www.aacrao.org

If you're choosing a specific SIS/registrar product or database schema to implement this, that's a different question—I can research which systems currently support competency-based transcripts/CLR 2.0.