Parchment Digital Badges
What is it?
Parchment Digital Badges is a digital badging platform that awards badges based on predefined earning criteria. Badges are earned and awarded when specified requirements are met at the course, department, or school/college/unit level. Parchment Digital Badges is a stand-alone instance. Badges may be awarded within Canvas courses or externally.
Badges can be awarded for a variety of purposes, including:
- interest and engagement
- participation or attendance
- knowledge or dispositions
- certificates
- proficiency, competency, or skill
How to Access
Within a Canvas Course
View the Student Flowchart (pdf) opens a new website for an overview of the digital badging process.
If your course is using digital badges (Parchment Badges) these will be accessed in the Canvas course by clicking on “Parchment Badges” on the course navigation menu.
From the Parchment Badges menu in Canvas, students may see up to two tabs:
- Progress: To view the digital badges earned in the course, along with the digital badges that have not yet been earned. Students can click on a digital badge they've earned to download and/or share on social media.
- Leaderboard (optional): Students can view digital badge progress for all the students enrolled in the course (please note the leaderboard must be enabled in the course).
Outside of Canvas
Go to Parchment Digital Badges opens a new website and enter your BlazerID and password to log in to Parchment Digital Badges.
Once in Parchment Digital Badges, you can:
- Click on “My Record” to view your history and achievements
- Click on “My Badges” to view your earned digital badges. On the “Other” tab, you can view digital badges earned through other organizations
- Click on “My Pathways” tab to view progress toward earning digital certificates and other pathway opportunities (if applicable)
- Click on “Resources” to view available resources for digital badges
Instructors: Use Badges in Your Course
You can work with OLT staff to implement digital badging. To initiate the process, fill out the Canvas Digital Badge Request Form.
A member of the Learning Technologies team will reach out you to you about next steps. The process includes:
- Instructor and OLT staff meet to discuss digital badging needs
- Instructor submits Qualtrics survey with badge details
- OLT works with Web Communications to create the badge image
- OLT sets up badge and/or pathway in Parchment website
- OLT works with the instructor to set up badges in Canvas course, if needed
FAQ
Digitals badges (Credentials) are awarded upon completion of instructor set requirements. More information on how to set Canvas module completion requirements can be found on the Setting Module completion requirements guide opens a new website.
If students have completed the requirement(s), but have not yet received their digital badge(s), the instructor may need to trigger a badge check. For more information on triggering digital badges, visit the Triggering badge awards in Canvas courses guide opens a new website.
Canvas Credentials Pathways connect badges from any platform into meaningful pathways users can follow. Users can track their own progress and look ahead to plan the next steps in their learning journey. To view a sample of a pathway, visit the Pathway sample webpage opens a new website. If you are interested in creating a pathway, contact eLearning opens a new website.