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. Get Started with Digital Badges Sharing your Digital Badge Curious to see what digital badges the University of Edinburgh currently offers? Visit our catalogue. BadgEd Catalogue 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). Resources and guidance for current BadgEd Champions Guidance for Badge Issuers If you are interested in planning and creating a new badge, the best guidance can be found on our Issuers page. Go to the Badge 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. Guidance for Current Badge Issuers FAQs from Potential Badge IssuersHere 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. How can I request to create a new badge?Essentially, you consider your badge idea using a few guiding questions and then discuss your idea with your local Digital Badges Champion. You might also request a badge development workshop. Once the idea is fully developed, your Champion will guide you through the request process. Your request will be looked at by the Governance team, who will give feedback and suggestion. Once approved, you can set up and start issuing University digital badges. Issuers page (for potential issuers) Find the list of Champions on the Champions pageWho can issue badges?Any University of Edinburgh staff member, school or programme can request to issue University open digital badges. Is there a minimum/maximum number of times that I need to award my badge?There is no minimum number of times that we expect you to issue badges. You may create badges that are only issued to one earner, or none at all- there may be cases where you want to create a badge but you are not guaranteed if and when you will issue it, that is absolutely fine.If you are planning on issuing badges to more than 500 earners, please contact the Service Team at opendigitalbadges@ed.ac.uk to discuss this.What do I do if I want to issue a badge, but I don't have a local Champion?If your School or department has a Learning Technologist, they might be most suitable for performing the Champion role, therefore we suggest having a conversation with them. If your School or department does not have a Learning technologist then we advise discussing internally. If you require additional support or information about badges please log a call with IS Helpline stating your School/ Department.Do I need approval from my School or department to issue a new badge?If you are interested in creating new badges, we recommend discussing this with the relevant authorities within your local School or Department.Do we have to use the centralised platform?Not necessarily. Within the University of Edinburgh, some departments have already been issuing digital badges for several years, which has highlighted the need for a central service. The Open Digital Badges service aims to:create consistency for all users that issue or earn badgesco-create and share best practice amongst colleaguesprovide supportcreate a badge community within the institutionprovide an opportunity for more colleagues to get involved.Users may continue to issue badges outwith the IS supported service; however we would be keen to discuss. Help and supportIf 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 This article was published on 2024-10-08