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Credly Digital Badging Integration

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"Credly's digital badging platform offers the most comprehensive features to design and issue badges, enterprise-class functionality to scale and manage programs, and enhanced analytics to measure success. Administrate offers a seamless integration to ensure your students get their badges without you having to lift a finger.

Integration Overview

 

 

Why Offer Digital Badges?

Offering your students a digital badge for completing an exam, module or other learning content is a great way to publicize your brand. More importantly it is your students promoting your brand for you. Offering badges can be a differentiator between you and your competitors. Moreover, employers are now looking at digital badges on social platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook to differentiate candidates and identify continuous development within prospects.

 

How Administrate & Credly work together

  • Set up your achievement
  • Link your achievement to your Credly badge using our GraphQL API
  • Set your event to 'Auto Pass Learner When Complete'
  • The platform will auto assign a digital badge to the student
  • The student can view and accept that badge through the student portal

 

Setting Up the Integration

Contact your Account Manager who will help you connect your Administrate instance to your Credly account and set up the required webhooks.

Once connected to your Credly account you need 2 bits of information to link an Achievement to a Digital Badge:

  1. the ID of the Achievement
  2. the ID of the Digital Badge

The Achievement ID can easily be returned using our GraphQL API.

The ID of the Achievement

query findAchievementType {
     achievementTypes {
          edges {
               node {
                    id
                    name
                    lifecycleState
                    certificateType {
                         id
                    }
               }
          }
     }
}

The Template ID of the Digital Badge

 

You are now ready to link an achievement to a badge. To do this, you need to run the following mutation on GraphQL:

mutation saveAcclaimBadgeTemplate {
     externalId {
          store(
               nodeId:""ACHIEVEMENT TYPE ID"",
               name:""acclaimBadgeTemplateId"",
               value:""CREDLY BADGE ID""
          ) {
               id
          }
     }
}

 

That's all it takes. If you have any questions, please contact our support team.

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