Custom Digital Badges

To increase learner motivation and engagement, add custom digital badges to your custom courses, tracks, and journeys. Custom courses must be in the format of SCORM or AICC. Custom digital badges do not currently support other custom content file types or live courses.

Digital Badges are visual, sharable, and verifiable records of accomplishment enabling learners to socialize their achievements and growth. Learners earn Digital Badges upon successful completion of a custom course, track, or journey in Percipio.

Skillsoft partners with Accredible to issue digital badges.

Get started with custom Digital Badges

To use the custom Digital Badge feature in Percipio, follow this four-step process:

1. Turn on custom Digital Badges

   Custom Digital Badges are on by default.

   To check your setting:

   1. From Site Settings, select Engagement and Notifications, then Engagement.
   2. From the Custom Digital Badges section, ensure the following two settings are set on:
      • Allow learners to earn Digital Badges for custom track completions
      • Allow learners to earn Digital Badges for custom journey completions
      • Allow learners to earn Digital Badges for custom course completions
2. Set up your organization's badge issuer site

   If you want to use custom Digital Badges, you must create a badge issuer site hosted by Accredible. If you choose to make your badges public, this page displays a list of all your organization's custom courses, journeys, and tracks that have custom Digital Badges assigned.

   You can customize this page with your company logo, a banner image, a description, and a URL to a company website.

   Once you create this site, you cannot delete it.

   

   To set up your issuer web site:

   1. With the setting for custom digital badges on, from the Site Settings menu in the left navigation bar, select Digital Badges.
   2. Select step 1: Configure your branded page with Accredible, our digital credentialing partner.
   3. On the Configure your branded page with Accredible page, specify the following information:
      • Company name: By default Percipio populates this with the value specified in the Organization name field. You can change it.
      • URL preview: By default Percipio populates this with your Percipio site name as the prefix followed by .digitalbadges.skillsoft.com. You cannot change this URL.
      • Logo: Upload a logo image that is 120x120 pixels and less than 2 MB. Percipio checks all uploaded images for viruses.
      • Banner: Upload a banner image that is 1920x120 pixels and less than 2 MB. Percipio checks all uploaded images for viruses.
      • Company description: Enter some words describing what a person would see if they come to your site.
      • Company website URL: Enter a URL to your company's website so people landing on your page can get more information about your company.
      • Allow Digital Badges to be public: Selected by default, this setting allows anyone with a link to your Accredible page to see a listing of all badges your company can issue along with the title and description of the associated custom journeys and tracks. Search engines can also discover your public, custom digital badges. When learners earn a public badge, they can share it on social media. Learners can choose to make any of their earned public badges private.

        If you unselect this option, your custom badges are private. When badges are private, they don't show on your company's Accredible site, learners can't share them, and search engines can't discover them. When learners earn a private badge, they can choose to make it public within their Accredible account so they can share it.

        If you change the privacy setting at any point, previously earned badges retain their public or private visibility status provided a learner did not individually changed it. Changing the privacy setting only impacts badges issued after the change. Learners can override the organization-level setting at any time by changing the visibility of only their badges to public or private regardless of the organization-level privacy setting.

   4. Select Finish configuring Accredible web page to create your page.
   5. You can preview your new page by selecting the hyperlink under Access your branded Accredible web page. After you create this page, you can design and create your custom badges.
3. Create your custom Digital Badges

   By default, Percipio shows you sample images for course, track, and journey badges. You have access to Accredible's badge designer to create your own. You can only have one course, one journey badge, and one track badge active at a time.

   To create your own Digital Badge, Skillsoft's recommends the following steps, but you can get additional help from Accredible:

   1. Select to Create course digital badge design, Create journey digital badge design, or Create track digital badge design. The process is the same for both. The badge designer opens with a default Skillsoft template loaded.

      

   2. If you do not want to use the existing badge template design, select each item from the center pane, then press the Delete key to remove it.
   3. From the left navigation, select Backgrounds. Scroll through the list to find one that suits your company style. Select it. The background design displays in the center pane.
   4. From the center pane, you can format the background. First select the background image so it is surrounded by a dotted line, then:
      • Use the color pickers at the top to change the color to your brand guidelines.
      • Resize the background by using the corner handles and clicking and dragging.
      • Click to drag the background to the center of the space.
   5. Optionally, from the left navigation, you can insert any Text, Images, Icons, or Ribbons to enhance your badge design. With the inserted item selected in the center, you can change the color, size, location, and formatting to your desired style.

      If you choose to insert Text, it is static and remains on every badge issued.

   6. From the left navigation, select Attributes. Attributes add text placeholders that change based on the type and the title of the track or journey. This way, learners get a unique badge for each track and journey they complete. The badge designer uses the term “attributes” to refer to the three different text placeholders that you can add to your badge. The “attributes” you can add are:
      • Title automatically inserts here: Inserts the full title of the journey or track
      • JOURNEY/TRACK/COURSE: Inserts the word COURSE, JOURNEY, or TRACK
      • COMPLETION: Inserts the word COMPLETION
   7. When you are done creating and designing your badge, select Save and Close. When you save and close, any previous badge design is overwritten with your new design. You see a preview of your new badge back in Percipio.
   8. Before you publish, we recommend that you Preview this design with a real title. This gives you the opportunity to see how your longest and shortest course, journey, and track titles display on the badge.
   9. When you are happy with your design, select Publish to make your badge available to add to for your custom courses, tracks, and journeys.
4. Add custom Digital Badges to custom content

   After you create and publish your custom badges, you can add them to each custom course or journey so that after learners complete the course, track, or journey, they can earn your badge.

   To add a custom badge to a custom course, journey, or track you select from the following options when you Add a content item, Create a custom journey or Edit a custom journey:

   • Allow learners to earn a Digital Badge for this course
   • Allow learners to earn Digital Badges for this journey
   • Allow learners to earn Digital Badges for each track in this journey

   Note: If you add a custom Digital Badge to existing custom content for the first time, learners who previously completed the existing custom content, must open the track or journey to claim their badge.

5. Earn custom Digital Badges

   After a learner completes a custom content track or journey to which you added a badge, they see the status within the journey: Badge earned.

   

   If the learner selects Badge earned, Percipio opens the learner's Accredible page where they can manage their badge. For more information about how learners can view, manage, and share their badges, see Manage your Digital Badges from Accredible.

   If a learner completed custom content a custom track or journey before you added a custom Digital Badge, learners can open that journey and select View Badge to claim their badge.

    

Frequently Asked Questions for Custom Digital Badges