Guidance and Support

Resources to help staff, students and the wider community use open digital badges.

Guidance for Badge Earners

Visit these pages if you have earned a University of Edinburgh digital badge and want to know more about how to claim, share and manage your badge.

 

 

Curious to see what digital badges the University of Edinburgh currently offers? Visit our catalogue.

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Guidance for BadgEd Champions

BadgEd Champions are University staff who support the creation and issuing of digital badges. Guidance and resources for Champions can be found on the Open Digital Badge Champions SharePoint site (requires University login). 

Guidance for Badge Issuers

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If you are interested in planning and creating  a new badge,  the best guidance can be found on our Issuers page. 

 

If you are a current badge issuer or administrator and looking for guidance about an existing badge, visit our guidance for badge issuers page.  

FAQs from Potential Badge Issuers

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions from people considering offering a University of Edinburgh digital badge.  If you don't find the answer to your question here, please feel free to ask your local Digital Badges Champion or ask the BadgEd team via Helpline. 

Help and support

If you have any issues concerning Digital Badges: in the first instance, as an earner contact the issuer, as an issuer contact your Digital Badge Champion. For any other matters, contact the IS Helpline with as much detail possible about your question:

Contact IS Helpline