Student Badging Program
Student clubs can be a great pathway toward earning your first badge! The experience you gain from student clubs and extracurricular activities not only create community and opportunities for networking, but can serve as a foundation to develop necessary soft skills.
What is Digital Badging?
Frequently asked questions about Student Badging.
What is a digital badge?
Digital Badges are an online, digital recognition of gained skills. Digital badges provide earners with the opportunity to share their completed accomplishments in desirable and employable skills. These badges contain data that include description, earning criteria, specific skills, and other parameters set by the institution. After earning, recipients can digitally display and share badges that easily verify the acquisition of specific skills and proficiency in certain subjects.
Digital badges are awarded directly to the earners, and they can choose how and when to display and share their digital credentials. This can include sharing on social media such as LinkedIn, including the badge in an e-portfolio, or adding the badge to a resume.
Co-Curricular badge
Activities within the badge
- perfect your resume through workshops and feedback from CBE or Career Services.
- Develop and practice your elevator pitch.
- Attend a career fair and speak with 3 employers.
- Send follow-up emails to those employers.
- Connecting Major to Career
- Applied Resume Success
- To see current CBE Badges, please visit our website HERE
Badge Earner:
Eligible Students who sign up for the badging program.
How do I get a badge?
- Sign up to be included in the badging program in Canvas Credentials
- Review requirements and expectations from the internal learning experiences in the Badging Canvas Module
- Complete required activities and evidence of learning for each badge you wish to earn
- Submit evidence in the Badging Canvas Module
- Wait for confirmation on evidence of learning
- Collect your Badge in the Canvas Credentials Portal
Canvas credentials offers a clear pathway toward your badge earning progress. It is tailored for each individual student and their personal strengths.
Badges are shareable via most social platforms including LinkedIn. CBE Badges are part of the Open Badges system. Visit the link below for more information.
Why Earn a Badge? Earning a digital badge as a college student enhances your resume and digital portfolio by showcasing specific skills and achievements beyond traditional grades. It provides portable credentials that are easily shareable with potential employers or graduate schools, highlighting your proficiency in employable skills. Additionally, badges demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and professional development, giving you an edge in a competitive job market.
All CBE Digital badges are verifiable through Open Badges
Badge Issuer:
Eligible Faculty who have permission to issue a badge.
Facts About Badging
The University of Hawaii and many other college institutions have already created successful badging programs.
For more information on the Student badging program at WWU please contact Steven Smith the Associate Dean of the College of Business and Economics.
360-650-2010