What are Open Badges?
Open Badges is the leading standard for digital credentials originally developed by Mozilla and now managed by IMS Global Learning Consortium®. It's now a popular and widely-adopted standard used by many organisations involved in skills, education and training. Openbadges.me is IMS-certified for Open Badges v2.

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Openbadges.me provides a versatile, secure and easy-to-use way of quickly implementing Open Badges and Digital Credentials. Explore your specific organisation requirements below.
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Qualification recognition
Unleash the added value of digital certification for your qualifications -
Motivating small steps
Improve and enhance retention and engagement for your learning programs -
Modern certification
Replace paper: save time and money -
Skills portability
Enable organisations to discover skills using the common currency of badges -
Evidence professional development
Create verifiable and secure digital evidence for professional development -
Event attendance
Reward and recognise attendees at your events. Create communities -
Integrate with existing systems
Integrate into your existing workflows using our advanced API plugins
Qualification recognition
Providing a digital certificate and a badge for your qualifications enables your learners to be more widely recognised for your qualification. A digital badge can be shared and used in multiple ways in our modern digital world.
- Reinforce your brand and awareness of your qualifications
- Provide a digital currency for your learners, e.g. in their resumes
- Differentiate the value that your programs provide
- Improve the security and auditability for your certification process
Motivating small steps
Create different badges for small steps in your training programs, so that learners can be recognised and motivated for achieving specific outcomes, building to your overall completion award.
- Encourage and reward progression
- Gamify your learning program
- Monitor progression more easily
- Create clear pathways to success
Modern certification
Upgrade from printing and mailing paper certificates to digital certificates supported by a portable badge credential. Save time and money while improving the service and value you provide your users.
- Supplement or replace your paper certificates
- Improve security and auditability
- Empower your users to easily share achievements, e.g. on LinkedIn
- Reinforce your brand through wider digital use
Skills portability
Discovering your learner's skills and competencies becomes much easier and valuable to the learner if you have provided them with a digital credential that they can share widely.
- Make resumes stand out from the crowd with digital badges
- Share skills via badges on LinkedIn and other social media platforms
- Unlock skills data within digital badges
- Future-proof to international standards
Evidence professional development
A modern digital credential or digital badge becomes recognisable, discoverable and verifiable evidence of professional mastery and/or completion of a training program.
- Enhance your organisation's brand and reputation
- Provide your users with a portable skills currency
- For membership organisations, support communities of practice
- Support tiered delivery via accredited centres
Event attendance
Easily create communities of users for your events and conferences where your attendees can all identify shared experiences via their badge, display on LinkedIn and generally indicate that they are proud members of your community.
- Quickly issue badges to attendees from an import file
- Promote brand awareness and recognition for your events
- Recognise continuing professional development
- Provide verifiable evidence of event attendance
Integrate with existing systems
Implement digital badges and certificates without the disruption of replacing your existing processes and systems. Use our advanced APIs and plug-ins to seamlessly integrate with your existing workflows.
- Simple badge-issuing API
- Event-driven issuing rules engine
- Off-the-shelf plugins available for popular apps
- Comprehensive documentation and support service
Openbadges.me Features
Openbadges.me lets you design, award, manage and store badges, and offers powerful reporting and analytics. Find out more about what openbadges.me can do
Issue Open Badges through tasks, assessments, and portfolio submissions
Openbadges.me lets you design, award, manage and store badges, and offers powerful reporting and analytics. Find out more about what openbadges.me can do
BADGE DESIGNBuilt-in authoring tool for creating your badge graphics |
USER AND ROLE MANAGEMENTFull admin system for managing users, tiered organisations and user roles |
BADGE BACKPACK FOR USERSProvide a rich backpack for badge recipients. Enable them to organise and share on social media |
BADGE ISSUINGMultiple ways to issue badges, including automated issuing and input files |
REPORTINGMonitor and report on all your badge-issuing activities |
BRANDINGCustomise openbadges.me to match your organisation's image |
Design a badge graphic - now
This is the original Openbadges.me design tool for creating a badge graphic file. It is FREE and still available here. This tool enables you to download your graphic file to use elsewhere. There is no Save option other than download. More advanced functions and save options are now available in the right hand button “Sign Up for Free”
This option gives access to a more advanced graphic designer tool and provides a Save option. In addition this option gives access to a full range of open badge definition and issuing functions. The full range of functions available for this Free option is shown on the Pricing page.