Awarding digital badges in IU Expand
Microcredentials and digital badges are a tool that can be used to acknowledge a learner's mastery of small pieces of knowledge or demonstrated achievements or skills. Digital badges are a visual indicator of an earned microcredential and they are embedded with verified metadata, which makes them shareable across social media and the internet. Digital badging is available at no cost to all faculty, students, and staff on all IU campuses.
Digital badges can be awarded on their own or alongside Certificates of Completion and can be a desirable enhancement to your IU Expand courses.
Digital badges can be awarded manually via email or auto-awarded using the Canvas LTI tool, where badge earning criteria is embedded into your IU Expand linked Canvas course.
To learn more about the possibilities of using this tool in your IU Expand catalog, email iubadges@iu.edu or visit our digital badging page.