Digital Badging allows organizations to create and issue digital credentials, which are portable digital icons embedded with evidence that verifies an earner’s skills, credentials and continuing education experiences. Cadmium has formed a partnership with a leading digital badging company, BadgeCert. Through Elevate LMS’ integration with BadgeCert, badges can automatically assigned for course completions or earned credits for a product or multiple products or as part of a certification. To implement this feature, a BadgeCert account is required. Badges are set up, designed and hosted within your BadgeCert account and completion data is passed to BadgeCert from Elevate via an API in real time.
NOTE
This feature requires a BadgeCert account. For more information on adding Digital Badging, contact your account manager.
Feature Admin Settings
In the remote accounts area of the settings section, add your BadgeCert Account credentials:
Badge awarded for earning credit in a product
In the set up of the certificate component, select the check box to issue badge found underneath the printable certificate options
Badge awarded for earning credit from a multi-product certificate
In the set up for multi-product certificate, select issue badge underneath selection of eligible products.
Badge awarded for earning credit related to certification
In the certifications listing, edit the certification and browse to the tab with the star icon. Check the box to issue a badge when certification is earned and then select the badge.
User View
Where learners view earned badges
When a learner earns a badge, it shows up in two places. It appears on their badging dashboard, and it appears on the product page of any product whose certificate component grants that badge. On the product page, the View Badge button appears as soon as the learner completes that product’s requirements.
A few things are worth knowing about how this works:
- More than one product can show the same badge. If two products both grant the same badge and a learner completes both, the View Badge button appears on each one — not only on the product that first issued it.
- Badges issued outside Elevate appear here too. If a badge was issued directly in BadgeCert rather than through Elevate, the learner still sees the View Badge button once they complete a product that grants it. These badges are labeled Externally Issued, because badges issued through Elevate always carry an issuer name.
- Expired badges don’t appear on product pages. A learner whose badge has expired won’t see the View Badge button, even on a product they’ve completed. Expired badges stay on the Expired tab of the badging dashboard.
IMPORTANT NOTE
The badge details a learner sees reflect the original issuance, not the product they’re viewing. Say a learner earns a badge in March, then completes a second product granting that same badge in September. Both product pages show the View Badge button, and both show the March issuance details. That’s expected — a learner holds one badge, not one badge per product.
Nothing needs to be enabled for this. It applies anywhere a certificate component grants a badge.
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