Case Study: Gloucestershire College achieves paperless, faster enrolments and £7,000 annual savings with Adobe Acrobat Sign

ESS and Gloucestershire College create better enrolment experiences with Adobe Acrobat Sign

Education Software Solutions (ESS), a London-based leader in education management software, worked with Gloucestershire College to address a pandemic-driven need to replace paper enrolment processes. Student signatures on learning agreements are business-critical for funding, but COVID-19 restrictions and the expectations of digitally native students made traditional, on-site signing impractical. The college sought a fast, secure, and student-friendly way to digitize enrolments.

ESS integrated Adobe Acrobat Sign with its UNIT-e system and Gloucestershire College rolled out the solution within months. Students can sign enrolment forms in under two minutes from any device, enabling over 5,000 enrolments to date. The college saved about £7,000 annually by eliminating printing, removed filing space, improved staff productivity and data quality, and gained a secure, auditable e-signature workflow that staff and students prefer — with plans to extend e-signatures to other administrative processes.

Gloucestershire College

Neil Pratt

Head Of Data Management