What is Digital Badging?
We are committed to providing you with the tools necessary to achieve your professional goals and we understand that communicating your credentials in an ever-expanding online marketplace can be challenging. That is why UM has partnered with Canvas Credentials to provide you with a digital version of your credentials. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. This digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them.
Digital Badging FAQ
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The Canvas Credentials Backpack allows you to view all your earned badges, share them, and organize them into collections. Badges awarded through Canvas Credentials are synced into your backpack, while badges from .
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Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
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We have partnered with Canvas Credentials to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company’s platform. The technology Canvas uses is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
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Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of.
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You will receive an email notification from Canvas Credentials (noreply@badgr.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
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No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
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While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Canvas Credentials. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
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You can share your badge directly from the Canvas Credentials platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
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