Writing a badge for an apprenticeship? Check out our how-to guide.
Issuing digital badges for apprenticeships is an amazing way to capture the achievement of gaining a qualification and provides a credible reference of the real-world work experience an individual has developed throughout their apprenticeship.
This guide will take you through the process of using our badge writing form to enter relevant metadata for a digital badge recognising completion of an apprenticeship.
Before you get started, please read write a badge relating to qualification to gain an understanding of the general best practice for referring to qualifications in your badges.
Badge Title
This is the long title for the badge and the first opportunity to provide detail. You should include the apprenticeship job title, you might also like to include your organisation name. |
Section 1: About This Badge
Who will this badge be issued to? Badge Name – Short Title Badge Description Be sure to include apprenticeship level and job title, e.g. URL for Additional Details Badge Standard Layer |
Section 2: Topic/Industry/Sector Information
Sector / Industry: Topic / Theme / Curriculum Area: E.g., if your answer to Sector / Industry was “Transportation”, you might refine this by using “Railway Engineering” as your topic. Sub – Topic / Theme / Curriculum Area: |
Section 3: Earning Criteria
This section is the place to detail what your apprentices have achieved throughout their apprenticeship. For more information on how to complete this section, please see How to write earning criteria. Remember that apprentices could use this badge as a record of their experience while seeking future employment. Some recommended information that is valuable to include is:
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Section 4: Skills Tags
This is the place to list each skill that your apprentices have developed / demonstrated while completing their apprenticeship. This may well be a long list if your apprenticeships take place over a long period of time but don’t be intimidated – this is a valuable part of your badge and will support earners to clearly identify their transferable skills. If you have been very detailed in your earning criteria, you might find the Navigatr Skills Scanner a useful tool for extracting a list of tags – for more information, please see Generating Skills Tags with the Skills Scanner. Before moving on with writing your badge, be sure to review your list of tags and ensure that each skill is mentioned in the earning criteria section. For more information, please see Referencing skills tags in earning criteria. |
Section 5: About the Activity
Activity Type: Who is this activity available to? - For apprentices that are existing employees and can only gain their role through an internal selection process, select “This badge is only available to Students, Members, or Employees”. How long does the activity take to complete? - Choose a timeframe from the drop-down menu, the likely answer to this is "Years" for apprenticeships that take a minimum of 1-year to complete. Does the earner pay to access the activity? Activity Location: - Select whether the apprenticeship takes place “In-person” or “Online”. Choose whichever feels most appropriate for how your earners engage with their apprenticeship. Your answer to this will dictate whether you are asked to provide a postal address or a URL as a location for the the badge. If your apprentices work across multiple locations, or have a hybrid role, please select in-person and use your organisation’s main admin/office address, or their most frequent work base. |
Section 6: Standards
Does your badge map to an additional standard? Standard Name: Standard Description: Standard URL: If you are unsure which specific standard the apprenticeship aligns with, you might try searching for it on the Institute for Apprenticeships website. |