Badges (for recipients)

Digital badges recognize the skills, achievements, or trainings you have completed within a program. They provide a verifiable way to showcase your accomplishments, making it easy to share your achievements with employers, colleagues, or your professional network.

In Linkr, the Badges feature allow recipients to easily access, manage and share the badges they earned during a program or a training. Badges are tightly integrated to your Linkr account and profile, which you can own forever, even after the training has ended.

Badges in Linkr are fully compliant with the Open Badges 3.0 standard, which make them very safe and easy to share.

How badges work in Linkr

A badge is a validated, visual representation of a skill, achievement, or credential earned through education, training, or experience. Unlike static images, these badges contain embedded, verifiable metadata detailing the issuer, criteria, and evidence of achievement. They are designed to be shared securely online, such as on LinkedIn, for professional development and career growth.

A badge can for instance look like this:

In the background, badges in Linkr dynamically connect the issuer and the recipient (AKA, you! 😉) ensuring 100% real-time authentication for viewers.

Once a badge is awarded to you on Linkr, you will receive an email notification:

The badge will be automatically added to your Linkr account in the Badges section:

Form that section, you will be able to decide whether you want to show that badge on your Linkr profile or not, as badges will be hidden by default (because of our Privacy by Design guidelines):

Each issued badge will also have a specific badge page in your Linkr account, which will contain all the information related to the badge itself (issuer, description, date of issuance, earning criteria), and multiple sharing options (Add to your LinkedIn Profile, copy a public link, post on Instagram, etc.):

Per compliance to the Open Badges 3.0 standard, each badge issued also has a page outside of Linkr accessible to any third-party, like a potential employer, for them to authenticate the validity of the badge in real-time, this means for instance that using the Copy link feature, and sharing that link, anyone will be able to access the page below without having to create a Linkr account:

Each badge created in Linkr also comes with a corresponding certificate that can be downloaded from the badge page:

Please contact support@linkreducation.com if you need more information about Linkr Badges.