Badge Nation
Joining and Onboarding
About Digital Badges
- Digital Badges Explained
- What are Digital Badges?
- How do Digital Badges work?
- What benefits do Digital Badges have for the people I award them to?
- What benefits do Badges have for my organisation?
- Can organisations be awarded digital badges?
- The RSA Badge Standard
- Why we love digital badges
- What is a Meta Badge?
- Blog - Create a Banging LinkedIn Profile with Digital Badges
The Badge Zone
- Register for the Badge Zone
- Log into the Badge Zone
- The Badge Zone - Badge Status explained
- The Badge Zone - View and edit badges written by other members of your organisation or community
- The Badge Zone - Who can comment on your badge
- The Badge Zone - Collaborate with other members of your organisation or community
- The Badge Zone - Invite a Gifted Membership organisation
- The Badge Zone - Accept a Gifted Membership invitation
- The Badge Zone - Change account password
- The Badge Zone - Update personal details
- Why aren’t all my organisation’s badges appearing in the Badge Zone?
- The Badge Zone – Delete a draft badge
- The Badge Zone - Terminate account
Digital Badge Writing
- Badge Writing Cheat Sheet
- Digital Badge Writing Workshop Recording
- Badge Planning Document
- Top 5 questions to ask yourself when writing a new Digital Badge
- Common badge writing mistakes and how to solve them
- Badge Ideas and Examples Bank
- Pre-Quality Assurance Checklist
- Writing a great Badge Description
- Choosing a Short Title for your badge
- Choosing a layer of the RSA Badge Standard
- How to write Earning Criteria
- Choosing a list of skills tags
- Referencing skills tags in earning criteria
- Generating Skills Tags with the Skills Scanner
- Tags explained
- How can I state who my activity is available to?
- Passing the 'Stranger Test'
- Add partner / funder / programme information to a badge
- Write a Meta Badge
- Write a badge for skills and behaviours
- Write a badge that relates to a qualification
- Write a badge for an apprenticeship
- Write a badge for a course
- Write a badge for a workshop
- Write a badge for an internship / placement
- Write a badge for volunteering
Quality Assurance and Publishing
Badge Visuals
- Badge Visuals Explained
- Badge Standard Visual Templates
- Logo Requirements for Badge Visuals
- Understanding Badge Visual Previews
- Badge Visual Previews: Problems and FAQs
- How are the different layers of the RSA Badge Standard represented in badge visuals?
- What are the options for dual branding badge visuals?
- How can I change the visual on a badge after it has been published?
- My organisation is rebranding, how can I update our badge visuals?
- I need bespoke badge visuals, can I get any support?
- Visuals Templates: Bronze, Silver, Gold
Managing Your Badges
- Earner Personal Data, Consent and GDPR for Issuing Digital Badges
- Top 5 tips to increase Digital Badge acceptance rates
- Make changes to a published badge
- Copy a published badge from one issuing platform to another
- Can I issue badges to children under the age of 13?
- Can I issue badges to a parent / guardian on an earner's behalf?
- Can I backdate issuing for activities that happened in the past?
- How can I support students to keep their badges when they leave my school/college/university?
Text and Templates
Credly
- Getting Started with Credly
- Log into Credly
- Credly - Issue a badge
- Credly - Bulk issue badges
- Credly - View analytics
- Credly - Generate an analytics report
- Credly - Add or remove a Collection Manager
- Credly - Search for an earner
- Credly - Delete an assertion
- Credly - Accept first badge
- Credly - Share a badge to LinkedIn
- Credly - Add badges to a CV
- Credly - Add a badge to email signature
- Credly - Print a badge
- Credly - Add multiple email addresses to your account
- Credly - Merge accounts
- Credly - Issuing Email Template 1: Help to Accept Badges
- Credly - Issuing Email Template 2: Help To Share Badges
- Credly - Keep Your Badges! Email template for school/college/university leavers
- Credly - Parent/Guardian Information & Consent Letter
Navigatr
- Getting Started with Navigatr
- Log into Navigatr
- Navigatr Help Centre
- Navigatr - Provider Platform Walkthrough
- Navigatr - Add badges to a CV
- Navigatr - Share a badge to LinkedIn
- Navigatr - Add multiple email addresses to your account
- Navigatr - Issuing Email Template 1: Help to Accept Badges
- Navigatr - Issuing Email Template 2: Help to Share Badges
- Navigatr - Keep Your Badges! Email template for school/college/university leavers
- Navigatr - Parent/Guardian Information & Consent Letter
- Navigatr Poster - Discover
- Navigatr Poster - Sign Up
Open Badge Factory (OBF)
- Getting Started with Open Badge Factory (OBF)
- Log into Open Badge Factory
- OBF - Choosing to connect to My Skills Pass or My Skills Backpack
- OBF - User roles explained
- OBF - Add a new user to your account
- OBF - Issue a badge
- OBF - Bulk issue a badge via CSV file
- OBF - Issuing to a parent / guardian on an earner’s behalf
- OBF - Review a badge application
- OBF – Use criteria addendum
- OBF - What is a badge application?
- OBF - Create a badge application with claim code
- OBF - Create a badge application with quiz
- OBF – Create a badge application form template
- OBF - Create a badge application for review
- OBF - Share a badge application
- OBF – Locate a Badge Application claim code
- OBF – Simple Badge Application and claim code poster/flyer template
- OBF – Detailed Badge Application and claim code flyer template
- OBF – Claim information letter template for parents of children under 13
- OBF - Information & consent letter template for issuing to children under 13
- OBF – Create a milestone badge
- OBF – Best practice for writing milestone badges
- OBF - View badge issuing statistics
- OBF - Generate a badge issuing statistics report
- OBF - Create an email template
- OBF – Create a recipient list
- OBF – Find the public URL for a badge
- OBF – Download a published badge visual
- OBF - Accept a badge
- OBF - Add a badge to LinkedIn profile
- OBF - Add digital badges to a CV
- OBF - Add a badge to email signature
- How To Import Credly Badges to Open Badge Passport
My Skills Pass/Backpack
- Getting started with My Skills Pass or My Skills Backpack
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Set up an account
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Import Credly badges to your account
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Import Navigatr badges to your account
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Import Open Badge Factory badges to your account via URL
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Import Open Badge Factory badges to your account via PDF
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Import OpenLearn badges to your account
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Edit your profile
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Upload files to your account
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Merge your accounts
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Add a badge to LinkedIn profile
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Share a badge
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Download badge as PDF certificate
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Add badges to CV
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Create a digital CV with Pages
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Share a Page
- My Skills Pass/Backpack – Export badge to another wallet, backpack, or passport
- My Skills Pass – Request endorsement on a badge
- My Skills Pass - Respond to an endorsement request
- My Skills Backpack – Managing badges on behalf of an earner
- My Skills Pass/Backpack - Spaces set up explained