Badging FAQ

After completing your course, Micro-Cert, or designation, you’ll earn a digital badge to share through your social channels or add to your email signature to show your credibility and the skills you've mastered.

Once you complete your course, you'll receive an email from our digital badge provider, Credly. All you need to do is:

1. Click the link in the email from Credly
2. Create an account on the Credly site (it's easy and free)
3. Claim your badge
4. Start sharing

A badge is a digital way to represent your achievement and show the skills you've gained after taking a course, Micro-Cert, or designation.

At this time, you can earn a digital badge after you complete CPCU 550, a Micro-Cert, or the AAI, AAI-M, ACSR, or PRC designations. 

While each badge will look different, here's an example of what a course badge looks like:

A badge allows you to share your achievement online in a way that is simple, trusted, and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to complete your course, Micro-Cert, or designation and the skills you've gained as a result.

Once you complete your course, Micro-Cert, or designation, you will receive an email notification from Credly with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.

You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public. 

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on the Credly platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate.

You can share your badge directly from the Credly platform to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, as well as in your email signature or embedded in a website.

Yes, you can print a hard copy of your badge via the Credly platform.

If you have any questions about how to navigate the Credly platform, visit the Credly Help Center.

If you believe you qualify for a digital badge and have not received an invitation to claim one, or have other badge-related questions, please contact The Institutes Customer Success team at CustomerSuccess@TheInstitutes.org.

To add or share your badge to a LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn requires an authorization process. This is required and standard for all third party programs creating a connection between the two accounts.

This message is predetermined by LinkedIn based on the authorization scope required to share your badge. Credly will not post to LinkedIn without your initiation or permission and will only add badges to your profile or post them to your newsfeed upon request.

Please note that you are able to disconnect Credly's access to your social media account after you have successfully shared your badge to your profile or newsfeed. You can also manage Credly's connection through your privacy settings within your social media account.

Credly is the digital badge platform The Institutes have partnered with to provide digital credentials to individuals.

No, this is a service The Institutes provide to you at no cost.

Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Mozilla backpack.

No, not at this time. For more information on this, you can visit the Credly Help Center.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions in the Credly Help Center.