The CCLS Digital Badge

Get the Recognition You've Earned!

The Child Life Certification Commission of the Association of Child Life Professionals is pleased to partner with Acclaim/Credly to provide Certified Child Life Specialists with a digital badge which will help credential holders inform coworkers, employers, potential employers, and other parties of their achievement.

What is a Digital Badge?

A digital badge is a visual representation of an accomplishment that may be used in email signatures, personal websites, digital resumes and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

When clicked, the badge enables the user to learn more about the credential, personalized certification dates, and the requirements to earn the badge. With a single click, third parties are directed to a metadata web page showing the requirements for certification. This content helps explain a CCLS’s qualifications and specialized skills.

Certification Verification

When an individual clicks on the digital badge, they are taken to a page on the Acclaim site that looks like this:

How Can the CCLS Badge Help You?

Often, people unfamiliar with child life certification do not understand the specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities that are demonstrated when an individual passes the certification exam. By using their digital badges, CCLSs will help increase awareness of child life certification and how it differentiates between the certified and non-certified practitioner, ultimately increasing the value of certification to CCLSs.

Employers and others can use the CCLS digital badge to verify current certification with just one click. Although the CCLS Directory will still be available, we are certain that the CCLS digital badge will enhance and streamline this process.

How to Claim a Digital Badge

CCLSs will be contacted via email with detailed instructions about claiming the badge. At that time, CCLSs will be directed to details on the use of the badge on the variety of available media.

Please add the following domains to your list of “safe senders” to help ensure the delivery of communications regarding digital badges: childlife.org and youracclaim.com.

How to Add the Digital Badge to an Email Signature

Adding the badge to your email is a 2-step process that involves downloading the badge image and once you insert the image into your signature, hyperlinking it to the URL that is specific to your information. There are step-by-step instructions for doing this at the links below; one is for Outlook users and the other for Gmail.

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Digital Badge FAQs

Q: What is an open badge?

A: Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification, or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
Q: How does my certification get displayed as a badge?

A: We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company’s Acclaim Platform. The technology Credly uses on its Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
Q: What are the benefits of a badge?

A: 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. Credly’s Acclaim Platform also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through the Acclaim Platform.
Q: Who is Credly?

A: 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.
Q: How will I know if I’ve earned a badge?

A: You will receive an email notification from the Acclaim Platform (admin@youracclaim.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.
Q: What if I don’t want my badge to be public?

A: You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Q: Is there a fee to use Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

A: No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
Q: What’s to keep someone else from copying my badge and using it?

A: While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly’s Acclaim Platform. 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.
Q: Where and how can I share my badge through Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

A: You can share your badge directly from the Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
Q: What are labor market insights and how can I access them through Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

A: Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through the Acclaim Platform. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
Q: Can I export badges issued through Credly’s Acclaim Platform to other badge-storing platforms?

A: 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.
Q: Can I import badges issued from other platforms into Credly’s Acclaim Platform?

A: Not at this time.
Q: I have a question about the Acclaim Platform. Where can I find support?

A: You can find answers to frequently asked questions here: support.youracclaim.com

Questions

Questions about the digital badge program may be directed to certification@childlife.org.