Canvas Credentials

Open digital badges are images that symbolize specific achievements, benchmarks, or experiences and contain detailed, verifiable metadata. These badges are easily displayed on social media and other platforms. Canvas offers an integrated digital badging tool known as Canvas Credentials (formerly Badgr), making it convenient to manage and display these achievements. Read more about “What Open Badges are” on Instructure | Community FAQ.

For Faculty:

Getting started with Badges for Faculty

Step 1: If you don’t already see Credentials in your left hand course navigation you will want to go to Settings and choose the Navigation tab. Find and enable Credentials. Be sure to save!

Step 2: Log into Canvas Credentials (Badger). You may need to register before being able to sign in. This is not linked to your Single Sign On (SSO) but you should use your Bellevue College email address to register.

Creating an Issuer

To set up badging in a Canvas course, you must create an Issuer on the Canvas Credentials (Badgr) site. This Issuer will be personal and not tied to the college. The Issuer information will appear on the Issuer’s public page and be part of each badge awarded by this Issuer. Keep in mind that recipients can share badges publicly, so choosing a descriptive name is important.

Important Notes:

Include Bellevue College in your Issuer name so that students can easily identify course badges awarded by Bellevue College instructors. For example: Prof. Olson – Bellevue College.
For the Issuer URL, consider using a website that highlights your status as an instructor. Suitable options include your department’s faculty and staff page, the campus directory, or your LinkedIn profile.

Step 1: Please follow the steps provided by Instructure | Community to set up a Personal Issuer in Canvas Credentials.

Step 2: Proceed to your Canvas course. Select Credentials on your left-hand course navigation in Canvas. Enter your email and receive a verification code. Choose your Personal Issuer and choose select issuer.

Note: When adding a badge to a Canvas course, a Group consisting of the students enrolled in your course is created. We recommend setting the Group’s expiration date to the course completion date. This ensures that badges cannot be awarded after the course has ended.

Creating a Badge

Please create your badges from within the Canvas Credentials site where you set up your Personal Issuer.

How do I create a badge in Canvas Credentials?

Note: Some features are unavailable in the free personal account. You will only have access to the basic info and additional info tabs, with the additional info tab limited to standard alignments, tags, and expiration details.

How do I edit a badge as an Issuer?

How do I delete a badge in Canvas Credentials?

Awarding Badges

In a Canvas course, badges are awarded based on Module completion. To ensure the badges reflect the intended achievements, configure your Module Requirements accordingly.

If you would like more info on setting up module requirement please see: How do I add requirements to a module?

To assign a badge to a module with requirements visit How do I manage group course requirements for Badges in Canvas?

You can also award badges directly from the Credentials site where you create your personal issuer (see above). For more details visit How do I award badges to learners in Canvas Badges?

If you need to remove a badge from a student please see How do I revoke a badge assertion in Canvas Badges?

Track Student progress in your course

How do I view Group learner progress as an instructor?

Note: Earned badges will be in full color. If a student does not complete all requirements of the badge, the badge will be grayed out.

You can also turn on the Leaderboard which can be a visual representation of achievements and rankings that keeps students engaged and invested in the course as they strive to achieve higher scores and recognition. To see how to use this feature visit How do I use the Leaderboard in Badges as an instructor?

Note: The Leaderboard can be set to Anonymous to avoid sharing student names.

Guides to provide Students on sharing Badges

You should consider adding a Credentials introduction page or section to your course to help students understand the What, Why and How to use their new Badges.

Here are 3 links to consider providing:

For Students:

To see Badge info in Canvas

Open your Canvas Course.
From Course Navigation choose Credentials.
Choose Progress to see an up-to-date reflection of each module completion and the badges earned.
Choose the Badge to see additional information

If your instructor had enabled the Leaderboard you’ll be able to see where you rank in relation to other students in the class. You can read more about this experience by visiting How do I use the Leaderboard in Badges as a student?

Important Note: Earned badges will be in full color. If you did not complete all requirements, the badges will be grayed out.

Submitting evidence for a badge

In the Credentials navigation on the left-hand side of Canvas, you can submit evidence to a badge if your instructor has required it.

Please follow the steps provided by Instructure | Community to learn how to submit your evidence for a badge.

Canvas Credentials (Digital Badges)