Academy has its own badge functionality and also integrates with Credly Acclaim to award badges on completion of a program.
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.
If you don't have a Credly Acclaim account, you can use Academy's native badge feature to award badges upon completion a program.
Adding a badge to a program
To add a badge to your program, you will need to:
- Click Edit
- Go to Overview
- Click on the Badges subheading
- Choose Add Badge
- Select from your existing list of badges
- Choose when the badge should be awarded to participants:
- Either Manually (an administrator will need to manually award the badge to a participant) or
- on 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)
Manually awarding a badge to a participant
If you choose to award badges to participants manually, you can do this by:
- Navigate to the Deliver view and go to the Class List
- Open the participant’s profile
- Click the three dots menu in the top right-hand corner, select Issue Badge
- Then, in the pop-up window, issue the badge. Some programs may have more than one badge attached; you can choose which badges to issue here.
