Badges Information

Badges Information#

The Badges feature allows learners to earn achievements (badges) for their learning activities.

  • Badge Template is another kind of credential.

  • Badge is another kind of user credential.

Current Badges version is highly integrated with the Credly (by Pearson) and Accredible services, but it is fully prepared to be used separately.

What is Credly?#

Credly is a end-to-end solution for creating, issuing, and managing digital Credentials. Organizations use Credly to recognize their learners’ achievements. Learners can store badges in their Credly profile to visualize their professional success - which courses were completed and when.

Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what learners have accomplished in order to earn their credential and what they are now capable of. Digital badges are a great way to motivate learning and display a learner’s subsequent achievements.

Badges are typically finer-grained than a traditional course certificate. They are meant to introduce game mechanics to have more frequent sources of motivation than one would get from a cumulative certificate.

What is Accredible?#

Accredible allows for the design and issuance of verifiable digital badges and certificates that showcase acquired skills, earning criteria, and evidence of learning. Learn more about Accredible on the Accredible features page.

Glossary#

  1. Badge template – a template of a badge (with design, name, and description) that will be used in settings to set up special rules to create a badge for users to receive on the platform.

  2. Authorization token – It’s a temporary key that verifies identity and authorizes resource access. A token can be computer-generated or hardware-based. A valid token allows a user to retain access to an online service or web application until the token expires.

  3. UUID – Universally Unique Identifier – is a value used to identify an object or entity on the internet uniquely. Depending on the specific mechanisms used, a UUID is either guaranteed to be different or is, at least, extremely likely to be different from any other UUID generated.

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