At the Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies, we are committed to providing you with the tools necessary to achieve your professional goals and understand that communicating your credentials in an ever-expanding online marketplace can be challenging. That is why we have partnered with 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. You can find more information in the FAQs below. If you have any questions beyond that, please feel free to reach out to us at kimberly.r.dondanville@slu.edu.
FAQ About Digital Badges
We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company's digital badging platform. The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global, enabling you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
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 of your capabilities. Credly also offers labor market insights based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through Credly.
Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals worldwide.
You will receive an email notification from Credly (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
No. Credly is a service we provide to you at no cost.
While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly. 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.
You can share your badge directly from Credly to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, over email, embedded in a website, or in your email signature.
Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills, you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through Credly. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image, allowing you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Badgr Backpack.
Badges issued from other platforms cannot be imported into Credly at this time.
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