Academy has its own badge functionality and also integrates with Credly Acclaim to award badges upon program completion.
Credly’s digital badging platform enables you to design and issue badges, includes enterprise-class functionality to scale and manage programs, and enhanced analytics to measure success.
Read more about integrating with Credly Acclaim here.
When creating a new badge in Academy, you have the option to link it to a Credly Acclaim badge. If you link an Academy badge to a Credly Acclaim badge, then both badges will be awarded to the learner on completion of a program.
Adding a badge to a program
To add a badge to your program you will need to:
- Edit the Program
- Go to Program Settings,
- Open the Badges tab,
- Choose Add Badge
- Create a new badge, or select from the available created badges
- Choose when the badge should be awarded to participants:
- Manually (an administrator will need to award the badge to a participant manually)
-
Completion of the Program (as soon as all tasks and activities in the program are complete, the badge will be issued automatically to the participant)
Creating a new badge
Badges can be created directly from the Program level Badge settings or via the Badges & Certificates section of Program Admin.
- You can either populate a badge manually; or, if your platform is integrated with Credly Acclaim, you can import the badge information directly from Credly.
- You can choose to link a certificate to your badge.
- Allocating points to a badge will award those points to the learner upon badging.
- “Issue if already earned” determines if you would like to allow the same badge to be awarded to a learner multiple times. For example, if the same badge is attached to multiple programs.
- You can also enable your badge to be shared on LinkedIn, allowing learners to share their achievements with their network.
Importing from Credly Acclaim
If you want to import your badge information from Credly Acclaim, select the ‘Import from Credly’ option.
You can then select which platform-linked Credly account you want to import a badge from, and search the badges in that Credly account.
Once you have found your badge, select ‘Import & Link’, and allow the badge to be populated by the Credly content.
Manually awarding a badge to a participant
To manually award badges to participants:
- Go to the Class List
- Open the participant’s profile
- Access the “Badge” tab
- Issue the badge.
