Parchment Digital Badges

Canvas Credentials is being rebranded as Parchment Digital Badges, now part of the Parchment Award suite, one of Instructure brands. This is a change in branding only — there are no changes to how the product functions, how it’s accessed, or its current licensing agreements. The only noticeable change to familiarize will be the URL to your Canvas Credentials instance, which will invoke Parchment, as stated below.

For more information visit: FAQ – Rebranding Canvas Credentials to Parchment Digital Badges

Badges can be used according to the following guidelines and cannot be awarded to reflect academic credit.

Internal Professional Development

• Free Activities: Faculty and staff can earn badges for free professional development activities at no cost.
• Fee-Based Activities: When a fee is charged, cost recovery is applied per badge.

Non-Credit Courses

• Fee-Based or Grant-Funded Courses: Badges for these courses are awarded on a cost recovery basis.
• Public Free Courses: Publicly accessible courses without fees can also use badges on a cost recovery basis.

Co-Curricular Programs

For student co-curricular programs, badges are awarded on a cost recovery basis.

For more information visit: Digital Badges @ UNCG.

Parchment Digital Badges Pathways provide the ability to map out a curriculum of multiple badges in a format that is easy-to-follow for learners. Pathways can be very simple, with only a few badged items to very complex with multiple branches, optional requirements and badges from different organizations and/or issuers.

Badges can be accessed at uncg.badgr.io or uncg.badges.parchment.com. From the Digital Badges website you can:

• view your Backpack;
• view and print certificates; and
• share your credentials on various platforms, including LinkedIn.

For more information visit: Digital Badges @ UNCG.