Digital Badges
What are badges?
Learning new concepts is great in and of itself, but we recognize that sometimes you need a way to show off your achievements. Digital Badges are digital micro-credentials that serve as portable learner records. Each badge when awarded has a unique issuer and a unique recipient and can't be duplicated or faked. You can use these badges to prove to your professor, current or prospective employer, your friends and anyone else that you've learned everything for a particular topic!
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How do I earn them?
In order to receive badges on Learn Coding, you must create a Digital Badges account and link it to your account on Learn Coding.
You can do this by clicking on the Connect button on your dashboard! You will also be asked to link an account whenever you verify your email.
If you have not connected your Digital Badges account to your Learn Coding account, we'll still hold on to the badges for you until you are ready to connect the accounts. Upon connecting the accounts any pending badges will be awarded right away! You can if there are any badges waiting for you on your profile! You earn a badge by completing all the quiz content for all the lessons in a given module. Once awarded we will never revoke your badge, but keep in mind more content may be added to courses and lessons at a later date, so be sure to check back in and continue learning about that topic if new content was added!
Types of Badges
There are currently two types of badges on Learn Coding. In order to be awarded a badge, you must complete all the quiz content of a module. If you complete all the basic quizzes contained in a module you will receive the standard badge for that module. If you manage to complete both the basic quizzes and the advanced content for a module you will be awarded the advanced badge for that module!
Sharing Badges
You can share your badge with anybody by clicking on a given badge on your dashboard. This will take you to the public page for your Digital Badges award. You can then select the share option or the OpenBadge JSON option the page, whichever is preferred by the individual you are trying to show!