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 Badgr Backpack.

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.

Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.

• Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities 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 earn your credential and what you’re now capable of.
  
  
• Badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. This digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them.

You will receive an email notification from Credly (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.

Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.

 No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.

You can share your badge directly from Credly to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

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