PRC Designees and Micro-Cert Completers Claim Your Digital Badge to Share Your Accomplishment with the World

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Overview 

The Institutes are pleased to provide PRC designees and Micro-Cert completers with a digital badge to share and promote your accomplishment. Once you’ve claimed your badge, you can easily share it in your email signature and on social media. 

 

How It Works 

As you earn Micro-Certs and the PRC designation you’ll earn digital badges to display in your email signature and social media profiles to build your credibility as you progress through the PRC program.

All PRC designees and Micro-Cert completers will receive an email from Credly. All you need to do is:

  1. Click the link in the email from Credly. 
  2. Create an account on the Credly site (it's easy and free).
  3. Claim your badge.
  4. Start sharing. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Digital Badge Questions

A badge is a digital way to represent your achievement. Open badges, like the PRC designation and Micro-Cert badges, are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.

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.

You will receive an email notification from Credly 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. 

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on the Credly platform. 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 the Credly platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

You can print a hard copy of your badge via the Credly platform.

If you have any questions about how to navigate the Credly platform, visit https://support.credly.com/hc/en-us.

If you believe you qualify for the digital badge, but have not received an invitation to claim your badge, or have other badge-related questions, please contact The Institutes Customer Success at customersuccess@theinstitutes.org.

To Add or Share your badge to a LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn requires an authorization process. This is required and standard for all third party programs creating a connection between the two accounts.

This message is predetermined by LinkedIn based on the authorization scope required to share your badge. Credly will not post to LinkedIn without your initiation or permission. Credly will only add badges to your profile or post them to your newsfeed upon request.

Note, you are able to disconnect Credly's access to your social media account after you have successfully shared your badge to your profile or newsfeed. You can also manage Credly's connection through your privacy settings within your social media account.

Credly (Digital Badge Platform) Questions

Credly is the digital badge platform The Institutes have partnered with to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.

No. This is a service The Institutes provide to you, at no cost.

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. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.   

Not at this time.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions here: https://support.credly.com/hc/en-us