Badge Earners

Find out more about the benefits of digital badges and how to receive and manage your University open digital badges.

Benefits of a earning a BadgEd digital badge

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A University open digital badge can help you visually showcase your skills and achievements outside of your coursework. Your open digital badge contains verifiable data and is usable across platforms like your CV, portfolio, web page and professional social media.

A University open digital badge offers earners several benefits.

  • A digital badge offers an easy, visual way to share validated skills and achievements with potential employers, clients or higher education programs.
  • An open badge is yours to manage and post as you choose across different formats and platforms, such as LinkedIn.
  • You can earn just one badge, or you can earn a number of badges and building your own themed collections by combining badges.
  • A University of Edinburgh digital badge shows that your skills and achievements have been verified by a reputable institution

 

Digital badges are a useful way of recognising your progress, not least because you can share them with prospective employers across a variety of platforms, such as a digital CV or LinkedIn; they are a testimony to the important skills you’ve gained.

Tristan Craig

3rd Year Ancient and Medieval History

I believe that badges can be very useful for students, especially in terms of their employability. They show the valuable skills we gain that we may not be able to present in our CV otherwise.

Zofia Magdalena Matuszczyk

2nd Year Psychology

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Receiving, sharing and managing a University open digital badge

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Receiving your BadgEd badge

After you have earned a badge, you will receive an email notification from the 'University of Edinburgh' (noreply@eu.badgr.com) titled 'Congratulations! You earned a badge!'. The notification will include key information about the badge as well as options to download the badge or manage the badge using a University Canvas Credentials account. 

Using and sharing your digital badge

Once issued by a University school or program, your digital badge will be available in your ‘Backpack’ in the BadgEd (Canvas Credentials) site. You’ll be able to:

  • download your badge for offline use
  • share your badge using a URL link
  • share your badge with an embed code
  • share your badge directly to your social media or LinkedIn feed.

Explore your backpack and manage your badges

The backpack or 'my badges' area of your University Canvas Credentials account allows you to manage your badges, and it includes options to:

  • share badges
  • upload or remove badges
  • print or download badges
  • view the public page where others can verify your badge
  • create collections of badges

Save a backup copy of your open digital badge

From your backpack, you can download your digital badge from your backpack and keep a copy on your device or in your files.  Be sure to download the PNG as it is and make no changes to the file, because your badge's metadata are 'baked in' to the image file.  You can check if you have saved the complete badge image file using the Open Badges 2.0 Validator. 

Open Badges 2.0 Validator (external link)

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Manage your account settings

You can manage your account settings in order to change your personal information, add additional emails, link social media and other accounts, delete your account, or merge your University account with a personal account. 

Guidance and support documents (step-by-step)

You can find downloadable guidance for receiving, sharing and managing your digital badges below.

Digital badges and your data

A digital badge contains verifiable data about you and your achievements and is designed to be shared.This means the University holds information about everyone who uses University’s version of Canvas Credentials, the BadgEd Open Digital Badges service. If you would like more information about privacy, data and BadgEd, please visit our Privacy Statement.

BadgEd privacy statement

Earner's Guidance Video: How to receive and share your University of Edinburgh digital badge

Further information

If you have any questions about this project, contact us via the IS Helpline with as much detail possible about your question:

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