Program Settings - Badges

Add badges or micro-credentials for learners to achieve upon completion of a program.

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Written By Donna Hanson-Squires (Super Administrator)

Updated at March 3rd, 2025

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:

  1.  Click Edit
  2. Go to Program Settings
  3. Click on the Badges sub heading
  4. Choose Add Badge
  5. Create a new badge, or select from your existing list of badges
  6. 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)
       
This screenshot shows the badge settings of a program in edit view. They are accessed via the 'program overview' main menu with the 'badges' sub-heading selected. Within the page, a badge shows on the screen as being related to this course. There is a drop-down menu highlighted to demonstrate where you can change how the badge is earned. The options in the drop down menu are 'completion of program' or 'manual'. Lower down the page, the 'add badge' button is highlighted to show how to add additional badges to the program.

 

Manually awarding a badge to a participant

If you choose to award badges to participants manually, you can do this by:

  1. Navigate to the Facilitation view and go to the Class List
  2. Open the participant’s profile
  3. Access the Badge tab
  4. Then, issue the badge.
     
This screenshot shows the workflow for manually awarding a badge. When inside a user's program details on their profile, the 'badge' tab has been selected. In the window, a graphic of the badge is shown greyed-out, to indicate the badge hasn't been awarded yet. The 'issue badge' button has been highlighted to demontrate how to award the badge for this learner.