Badge platforms
A list of all platforms accredited by1EdTech (the artist formerly known as IMS Global Learning Consortium) can be found here. This page does not currently list LMS systems that also issue badges.
Accredible
Overview:
Accredible helps you to design, create, deliver and manage open badges.
Details:
- Work with badges, certificates and Blockchain within one platform.
- Design, create, deliver and manage digital badges.
- View detailed usage reports, track referrals and impressions for your programs.
- Supports multiple languages.
Contact: Duncan Mitchinson, Head of Customer Success, Accredible
Badgecraft
Overview:
Badgecraft offers a multilingual platform to manage any achievements using Open Badges.
Details:
- Learning providers can easily set up their badge projects, create and issue Open Badges, assign roles to users (e.g. owner, manager).
- In progress: Badge issuers can define quest-based criteria, type of evidence and assessment.
- Badge earners can display, share and download their Open Badges.
- Trusted partners are constantly adding new languages with the help of integrated translation tools.
- Features of the platform are developed in close cooperation with learners, learning providers and employers.
Contact: Nerijus Kriauciunas, CEO & Co-Founder
BadgeCollect
Overview:
BadgeCollect is a web based platform where people and businesses can create, design, issue, and endorse Open Badges. In BadgeCollect, individuals can collect and import all Open Badges and ESCO-Badges that are earned ever.
Details:
- Build trustworthy and verifiable upon the Validana blockchain
- Earn, collect, and make Badges accordingly
- Build-in system for endorsement on Open Badges, organizations and people
- Visual Badge designer
- Free for individuals and small businesses
- Gamification and motivational factors for life-long learning
Contact:
- Rob Versluys, Chief Product Officer, Inversable
- Koen Boertien, Business Developer, Inversable
Badge List
Overview:
Badge List helps you collect and validate learning evidence and award Mozilla Open Badges to your learners, all without setting up servers or software.
Details:
- Badge List helps you quickly create an online learning group. Within the learning group you build a collection of open badges representing important skills. Each badge can have a custom rubric which defines the evidence required to earn it.
- Learners are are able to submit learning evidence in a simple blog-like online workspace. You can provide feedback on each piece of evidence they offer. When a badge is awarded, the learning evidence is automatically linked to the Open Badge, helping provide valuable context about the learner’s achievement.
- Badge List is mobile-device compatible and completely cloud-based, so you don’t have to have a server or setup any software to use the platform. Badge List is free for public groups and small private groups.
Contact:
- Hank Ryan Thompson, CEO & Co-Founder, Knowledgestreem
- Ben Roome, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Knowledgestreem
BadgeFactor
Overview:
BadgeFactor is a WordPress plugin allowing the implementation of a system of digital badges that combines several features of BadgeOS, BuddyPress, Gravity Forms and Advanced Custom Fields in a coherent and autonomous way. It's an Open source project.
Details:
As an administrator, the dashboard allows :
Manage learner profiles
Create and configure digital badges
Issue digital badges (submissions and nomination)
Managing Organizations
Viewing statistics (reports)
As a user, the digital badge portfolio allows:
- Create profile (photo, biography, information)
- Manage a portfolio of obtained digital badges (public / private, category)
- Sharing digital badges on the Internet
Contact: Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, CEO, Pygmalion
BadgeOS
Overview:
BadgeOS™ is an operating system for fostering engagement and recognizing achievement. Available as a powerful free plugin to WordPress, BadgeOS lets you easily create, organize and assess activities, reward achievements, and issue badges as participants succeed.
Details:
- Create and manage a complete constellation of badges and activities, easily defining an unlimited number of achievement types and how they relate to one another.
- Choose from a quickly growing set of built-in and add-on assessment types and badge and achievement triggers, such as: expert review of submissions; peer nominations; quiz and test score results; verified interaction with third party resources, such as open educational materials; completing a sequence of steps; using claim codes; and other automatic triggers.
- Extend your system with add-ons for things like rewarding a wide range of community contributions, tracking and analyzing engagement, or integrating with open source learning management systems.
- Free support available for getting started with BadgeOS, including free webinars on badge system design.
Contact: Hope Kandel, Director of Partnerships, BadgeOS
Badgetree™
Overview:
Badgetree™ is a badge issuing application in Spanish. Users can create issuers and badges for non enterprise recipients for free.
Details:
- Easy tu use: users can login with social network accounts and quickly create an issuer and badges.
- Fully functional Version 2.0 badges
- Integration with third party platforms via API available
Contact: Jordi Rosquillas, CEO, Badgetree
BCdiploma
Overview:
BCdiploma is the first 100% blockchain Open Badge for tamper-proof and long-lasting micro-certifications for professional use. The whole data is certified, secured, stored, and read in real-time on the blockchain, including proofs of assertion. BCdiploma’s Blockchain Open Badges are compliant with the Open Badges 2.0 standard and are compatible with all solutions, passports, portfolios and backpack in the Open Badges ecosystem.
Details:
- Easy to manage : 3 clicks are necessary to deliver badges or create new ones
- Easy to use: compatible with all portfolios, social networks and LinkedIn
- Tailor-made design and content of badges and certificates
- Secured by the unique blockchain technology EvidenZ
- Powerful and free API
- Supports multiple languages, PDF export with QR code, analytics, GDPR compliance, user roles, in-app unlimited support...
Contact:
- Vincent Langard, CTO and Co-Founder, BCdiploma
- Email the BCdiploma team
Bestr
Overview:
Bestr is a proprietary badge issuing platform developed by CINECA and is the Italian contact point for open badges.
Details:
- Includes connection to learning resources for given badges and endorsement by employers for badges. Free for learners, a service is offered to employers and training providers to design and issue open badges.
- Integrates with social media
Contact: https://bestr.it/support/contact
CanCred.ca
Overview:
CanCred.ca by Learning Agents is an Open Badges solution hosted in Canada by Canadians for Canadians. CanCred is built on Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport technology, in partnership with Open Badge Factory Solutions in Finland.
Details:
- CanCred Factory offers organizations a flexible and secure platform for designing, creating, managing and issuing their own badges. It also offers an extensive reporting system so organizations can monitor how their badges are being used. Current features of CanCred Factory include: badge applications, milestone badges, multilingual badges and PDF badges. Community features include Endorsement, badge sharing by issuers and integration with Moodle/TotaraLMS, Blackboard, Canvas, and D2L Brightspace and as well as open API for third-party plugins. There is tiered subscription service for badge issuer organisations with a free option.
- CanCred Passport offers individuals a free, easy to use home for their badges, enabling them to not only collect and share badges, but to build badge portfolios that can be connected to social media and to engage in more learning. Organisations can build community Spaces on CanCred Passport, to help connect learners with new opportunities for learning, including MiniMaps for badge-linked learning pathways.
- Dedicated Passports for other badge communities can be built using Salava, built on an Open Source code base. In Canada, the best example is eCampusOntario Open Badge Passport.
Contact: Don Presant, President, Learning Agents Inc.
Canvas Credentials
Overview:
Badgr was originally developed by the lead authors of the Open Badges 2.0 specification and selected by Mozilla to replace the Mozilla Backpack. It has since been acquired by Instructure, the makers of Canvas LMS. Badgr is a digital badge and stackable pathways ecosystem serving millions of users in over 50 countries.
Details:
- Issue, receive, and manage Open Badges from any source - all from one free, integrated account.
- Build easy-to-understand, cross-organizational Badge Pathways with automated issuing rules.
- Discover new badges and new learning/work opportunities based on the badges in your Backpack.
- Badgr is the native badging system of Canvas, and offers integrations with many other platforms.
- White label services and enterprise deployment are available.
See how it works here and sign up here.
Contact:
- Email the Badgr Team
Credly
Overview:
Credly, founded in 2012, is helping the world speak a common language about people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities through digital credentials.
Details:
- Thousands of employers, training organizations, associations, certification programs, and workforce development initiatives use Credly to help individuals translate their learning experiences into professional opportunities using trusted, portable, digital credentials.
- Credly empowers organizations to attract, engage, develop, and retain talent with enterprise-class tools that generate data-driven insights to address skills gaps and highlight opportunities through an unmatched global network of credential issuers.
- Learn how Credly works, here.
Contact: John Walber,Chief Operating Officer, Credly
ForAllRubrics
Overview:
ForAllRubrics is the rubric and badging platform for teaching and learning that is free for teachers.
Details:
- Create, organize, and share basic badges with your communities, or explore more advanced badge design options for standards alignment and for self- and peer-issued badges. System administrators can easily manage learners and their badges.
- ForAllRubrics can support your efforts to build a badge system for your communities or a badge platform for your organization.
- ForAllRubrics includes iOS and Android apps for issuing badges offline, and is free for teachers, with other paid options for school and district administrators.
Contact: Karen Jeffrey, Founder & President, ForAllRubrics
HPass
Overview:
HPass is a digital platform specifically for use by humanitarians, enabling individuals to set up a free myHPass profile on which to display badges from a rnage of humanitarian organisations and learning providers.
Details:
- Enables participating humanitarian organisations and learning providers to create and issue digital badges to myHPass
- Enables humanitarians to set up a free myHPass profile on which to gather digital badges from a range of providers. The profile can be maintained throughout the individuals career as they move between organisations and locations
- Promotes collaboration and consistency between organisations in their recognition of humanitarian skills and competencies
- This is a collaborative initiative run by the Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Contact: Esther Grieder, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Hyland Credentials
Overview:
Hyland Credentials provides a complete system to issue digital credentials in a blockchain-secured format that is easily shareable and instantly verifiable anywhere in the world.
Details:
- Uses Blockcerts (compatible with Open Badges)
- Issue official records in a digital format that students can share
- Recipient owned, vendor independent, and verifiable anywhere
Contact: https://www.hyland.com/en/platform/product-suite/hyland-credentials/hyland-credentials-contact-us
Milestone
Milestone by Anthology grants learners the ability to certify and showcase their skills and accomplishments.
Details:
- Badging and micro-credentialing
- Competency assessment
- Guided skill progression
- Personal and career goal setting
- Skill recognition, endorsement and showcasing
- Open badge 2.0 compliance
Contact: https://www.anthology.com/contact-us
Overview:
Navigatr is the next generation of Digital Badging platform to create, issue, and manage digital badges and pathways - hosted securely in the UK. Find popular learning activities near you, courses to join, or let yourself be inspired.
Details:
- Local government: enable participation to develop skills and better outcomes in your local authority area.
- Business: digital badges to attract, retain and progress talent in your organisation.
- Education: educators are recognising skills in every setting and guiding learners on their journey through education into work with Navigatr.
Contact: https://www.navigatr.org/contact
NOCTI and Nocti Business Solutions (NBS)
Overview:
These two firms NOCTI and NBS utilize the same badging foundation but serve two different customer groups. Both provide a customized platform along with guidance and consulting services for the implementation of badging projects of any scale.
Details:
- Overall consultation regarding badging benefits and alignment to company, association or institutional desires/needsTailored contracts to fulfill identified needs
- Availability of the following services as needed:
- Design or development of assessment rubricsStandards development assistance
- Validation and/or metadata assistance (national, statewide, local)
- Custom graphic assistance (commercial artist on staff)
- Secure and reliable hosting of badges, assertions, and evidence
- Individual account establishment
- Badge analytics
- External integration using a secure API
- Cross-browser compatibility
- Hosting of existing badges
Contact: John Foster, CEO, NOCTI
Open Badge Factory
Overview:
Open Badge Factory (OBF) is a user-friendly and cost-efficient cloud service developed and hosted by Discendum Ltd., a Finnish eLearning service provider that has operated over 17 years. Open Badge Factory offers tools for creating, issuing and managing Open Badges and badge ecosystems. Any type and size of organisation can use the platform and choose a suitable service level depending on their needs. Training, webinars and consultation is also available.
Details:
- OBF offers organisations a flexible and secure platform for designing, creating, managing and issuing their own badges. It also offers an extensive reporting system so organisations can monitor and track how their badges are being used.
- Current features include: endorsement, alignments, badge applications, milestone badges, multilingual badges, sub-organisations, advertisement of badges in sister service Open Badge Passport, branding, evidence uploads to OBF server, user role management (admin, creator, issuer), simple badge creation and issuing interface, community features including badge class sharing by issuers, integration with Moodle/TotaraLMS, Mahara, Blackboard, Canvas, Schoology and D2L Brightspace and as well as open API for third-party plugins.
- Tiered subscription service for badge issuers with a free option. Enterprise level offers possibility for a dedicated Open Badge Passport for organisations and Badge Record Storage to save badge data to own servers.
- Badges issued with Open Badge Factory go automatically to the badge earner's Open Badge Passport account.
- Free storage and display service for badge earners on Open Badge Passport, a robust alternative to Mozilla Backpack. Possibility to also create portfolio pages with badges and share those anywhere online. Badge Gallery for users to see what kind of badges are being issued all over the world. Social features.
- Dedicated Passports for other badge communities can be built using Salava, an Open Source code base.
Contact: contact@openbadgefactory.com
Openbadges.me
Overview:
Openbadges.me provides a versatile, secure and easy way of awarding Open Badges and recognising achievement, from completing everyday tasks to accomplishing long-term goals. Openbadges.me enables badge earners to celebrate their achievements, share their badges on social media or collect them within their unique branded backpack.
Details:
- Simple to use and very easy to get started
- Free and premium plans
- Ability to add organisation own branding, customize email content and support for dedicated login page
- API to issue badges directly from 3rd party applications
- Advanced rules based badge issuing
Contact: John Bentley, Product Manager
Participate
Overview:
Participate allows you to build an online learning ecosystem that inspires your members to engage and propels your impact forward.
Details:
- Issue badges within Communities of Practice
- Auto-issue badges on course completion
- Share badges with the world!
Contact: communities@participate.com
RedCritter
Overview:
RedCritter is a comprehensive recognition platform promoting employee and/or student engagement through the use of powerful game mechanics including: badges, certifications, skill tracking, virtual currency, leaderboards and more.
Details:
- Free customizable and graphically rich profiles for showcasing achievements.
- Free mobile apps for viewing and issuing achievements for all mobile operating systems.
- Robust administrative options to create, customize, and configure recognition tools.
- Streamlined teacher solution to enable quick and easy recognition of students and easy integration with Google Classroom and Office 365.
- Flexible strategies for distribution of achievements including NFC, voice recognition, automation with existing systems, mobile and more.
- Instant provisioning and free 30 day trial for all plans.
- Advanced analytics and reporting.
- Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and teachers across the world.
Contact: Dan Hoffman, Director of Business Development, RedCritter
Sertifier
Sertifier is a digital credential management software that helps institutions, academies, universities and schools to send digital certificates and badges at ease.
Details:
- Instant share on socials
- Integrates with Moodle, Canvas, and Thinkific LMS's
- Provides an API for custom integration
Contact: https://sertifier.com/en/contact-us
VerifyEd
VerifyEd is issues tamper-proof digital certificates, transcripts and modules from any provider.
Details:
- Uses (environmentally-friendly) blockchain technology
- Brings together modules, transcripts, verified skills and coursework - allowing your learners to demonstrate the depth of their learning
- Share credentials on social networks
Contact: https://www.verifyed.io/contact
This wiki page was originally created by the Badge Alliance under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. Updates by We Are Open Co-op fall under the same license