1. A method for electronically signing an electronic transcript, comprising: obtaining an electronic transcript representative of transcript data; generating a first representation by performing a first hash operation on the electronic transcript; appending data that is representative of a user to the first representation to form an appended first representation; generating a second representation by performing a second hash operation on the appended first representation; communicating the second representation to a digital notary service; receiving from the digital notary service a digital notary record based on the communicated second representation; and forming an electronically signed electronic transcript by bundling the digital notary record, the electronic transcript, and the data that is representative of the user.