Introducing GBAC’s Digital Badges
A new way to showcase your professional accomplishments.
Introducing GBAC’s Digital Badges for select programs:
- GBAC STAR Facility
- GBAC-Trained Technician
- GBAC STAR Registered
- GBAC Ambassador
- GBAC STAR Event
- GBAC Trusted Advisor
The badge program provides opportunities as an innovative and more visible way to showcase your mark of excellence. Digital badges are secure, web enabled credentials containing verified information about your professional achievements.
We believe these digital badges will further enhance your professional standing and achievements. So, start using them today to develop your career and expand your professional network.
How it Works
Acquiring your digital badge is effortless. First, you’ll receive an email notifying you to claim your badge at our partner Acclaim’s website. Click the link in that email and create an account on the Acclaim site. Once you’ve created your account, it’s time to claim your badge and start sharing!
What is Digital Badging?
We are committed to providing you with the tools necessary to achieve your professional goals and we understand that communicating your credentials in an ever-expanding online marketplace can be challenging. That is why we have partnered with Credly to provide you with a digital version of your credentials. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. This digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them.
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
We have partnered with Credly’s digital badge platform to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge. The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
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. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the Credly platform.
Credly is a digital badge platform that works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
You will receive an email notification from Credly ([email protected]) 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.
No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
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 find answers to frequently asked questions here: support.credly.com