UMBC Transitions Digital Badges to Accredible
New platform enhances analytics, sharing, and value
UMBC is transitioning its digital credentialing platform from Parchment Digital Badges (formerly Canvas Credentials/Badgr) to Accredible. This move supports continued growth in microcredentials while expanding how learners can access, share, and build on their achievements over time.
While the platform is changing, the impact for most users should be minimal. Existing badges remain valid, and the overall experience of earning and sharing credentials will feel familiar.
What’s New
With Accredible, UMBC is introducing several enhancements for both microcredential earners and program leads:
- Improved analytics to better understand engagement and outcomes
- Expanded sharing and messaging tools to help learners promote their achievements
- A unified digital wallet where all UMBC credentials can live in one place
- Support for long-term credential curation, aligned with emerging Learning and Employment Record practices
These updates position UMBC to better connect learning with career pathways and support learners beyond a single course or experience.
For Current Badge Earners
If you earned a UMBC digital badge within the past year, you should have received an email from Accredible notifying you that your badge(s) have been re-issued on the new platform.
A few important notes:
- Your original badge on the previous platform is still intact
- This is the same microcredential, now available in Accredible
- You may receive multiple emails if you earned more than one badge
- All future UMBC badges will be issued through Accredible
The transition is designed to consolidate your credentials into a single, more flexible platform while preserving everything you’ve already earned.
Accessing Your Credentials
You can view and manage your digital badges at: digitalbadges.umbc.edu
For guidance on using and sharing your credentials, visit Accredible Support. Our UMBC FAQs will be updated soon.
Questions
For questions or support, please contact the Digital Credential Innovation Team by submitting an RT ticket.
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Designing Learning & Microcredentials Beyond the Classroom
Applications Now Open – Due Monday, March 2 at Noon
UMBC students develop powerful, career-relevant skills across campus — through leadership roles, civic engagement, student employment, involvement programs, community partnerships, and other experiences beyond the classroom.
Much of that learning is intentionally designed, coached, and mentored by staff — but it is not always formally recognized.
This 6-part professional learning series will help staff formalize those experiences into microcredentials that clearly document learning outcomes, competencies, and authentic assessment aligned with career readiness.
What This Series Will Do
Participants will:
- Define clear, student-facing learning outcomes for co-curricular and experiential programs
- Develop “experiential syllabi” that communicate purpose, expectations, and growth
- Design authentic assessment approaches (beyond traditional grading)
- Map programs to competencies and career readiness outcomes
- Draft and refine a full microcredential proposal
- Submit proposals for review through a cross-campus Microcredential Review Board
By the end of the series, you will have a complete, review-ready microcredential that documents student learning in your program area.
Why This Matters
- Provides formal recognition for authentic student learning
- Clarifies the learning happening across diverse campus contexts
- Enhances visibility of staff contributions to student development
- Supports future integration into UMBC’s Learning & Employment Record (LEDR)
As leadership and program models evolve across campus, this series creates shared clarity around how we define, document, and recognize learning beyond the classroom.
Who Should Apply
UMBC staff who lead or support:
- Co-curricular programs
- Student leadership initiatives
- Civic or community-based experiences
- Work-integrated or career-connected learning
- Student employment or involvement programs
- Any structured experience where meaningful learning occurs
Meeting Dates
- Welcome & The Experiential Syllabus as a Design Tool: March 13 | 1-2pm | Virtual
- From Program Descriptions to Learning Outcomes: March 27 | 1-2pm | Virtual
- Evidence of Learning and Authentic Assessment: April 10 | 1-2pm | Virtual
- Microcredentials as Learning Documentation at UMBC: April 24 | 1-2pm | Virtual
- Making Learning Visible: Earning Criteria, Skills, and Competencies: May 1 | 1-2pm | Virtual
- Connecting Experiences: Pathways, Stacking, and Next Steps: TBD by cohort members | Face-to-face
Missed the Kickoff?
Application Details
Questions?
James DeVita, Assistant Vice President for Academic Partnerships & High Impact Experiences
Collin Sullivan, Program Director for Digital Credential Innovation
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Designing Learning & Microcredentials Beyond the Classroom: Kick-Off & Info Session
Turning Campus Experience Into Recognized Skills
UMBC learners gain invaluable skills and competencies in diverse spaces across campus through leadership roles, civic and community engagement, student employment, involvement and engagement programs, and other transformative experiences beyond the classroom. Many of these powerful learning opportunities are designed, coached, mentored, and co-created by staff in ways that may not always be framed as traditional learning experiences–but can be.
This new professional learning series explores how staff-led co-curricular, experiential, and student-facing programs can more clearly communicate learning, growth, and skill development, and how microcredentials can make that learning visible. The 6-part workshop series will engage participants in the development of new microcredentials from start to finish.
Join us for an interactive kickoff event where we will:
- Introduce the goals and structure of the learning series
- Explore how staff-led programs already function as intentional learning experiences
- Share the learning outcomes participants can expect to work toward
- Discuss what participation will look like over the semester
- Answer questions and help you decide if this experience is a good fit
This session is open to UMBC staff who support or lead:
- Co-curricular programs
- Student leadership or engagement initiatives
- Experiential or community-based learning
- Work-integrated or career-connected experiences
- Other student-facing programs where learning happens outside the classroom
Whether you are curious about microcredentials for the learners you work with, want to better articulate the learning happening in your area, or are simply interested in connecting with colleagues doing similar work, this kickoff is a great place to start.
Questions? Contact:
James DeVita, Assistant Vice President for Academic Partnerships & High Impact Experiences,
jamesmdevita@umbc.edu
This update is in name only. The system will continue to function exactly as it does today. You’ll still log in using your same sign-on, and all existing badges, pathways, and workflows will remain unchanged.
The only visible updates you’ll notice are:
- The product name and logo will now display "Parchment Digital Badges"
- In limited instances, the Blackboard integration will appear as “Parchment Badges”
- The web address may update to a new domain (this change will happen over several weeks)
Our
internal FAQs and support materials will be updated by October 31 to reflect the new branding.
For questions or assistance, please contact the Digital Credentialing Team at
badges@umbc.edu or by placing an
RT ticket.