Badging: How to Share Digital Badges and Microcredentials

This page explains how to share badges after you created your St. Thomas Parchment Badges (formerly called Canvas Credentials or Badgr) and have earned at least one badge and want to start sharing your badges. There are a variety of ways to share your badges to help tell others about what you know how to do, and to also promote the ideas within a badge. 

What and Why Parchment Badges? 

The University of St. Thomas partners with Parchment Badges, a third-party digital credential service provider, so you can make your badges available to employers, your professional network and others that you want to know about your microcredentials.

Each badge earned includes data about the knowledge, skills, or competencies you gained and demonstrated as a result of completing that badge. Badges are clickable, allowing others to see details about what you learned, and that your credentials were earned from St. Thomas.

Once you create your Parchment badge account and start earning badge credentials, you will be able to display/share badges you earned on your social media pages (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook), email signature, resume, online portfolio, or personal website. Also, all your badges can be stored in your Parchment My Badges space which keeps all of your badges in one location.

How to Find My Badges to Share? 

Locate your badges by logging into your Parchment account at using your St. Thomas badge username and password that you used to set up your Parchment account. Or another way to get to your badges is to log in at Parchment Digital Badges (using the credentials you used to create your St. Thomas badge account) and look for My Badges.

How to Start Sharing your Parchment Digital Badges?  

There are a variety of ways to share your badges or collections of badge credentials: via Link, directly to Social media channels (LinkedIn, etc) or by using provided Embed codes.

• For starters, consider adding your digital badge to your email signature (or other emails) if you'd like others to know more about these skills you've gained. How to add your badge to your Outlook email signature, 
• These instructions from Parchment provide the most current information on Sharing badges from Canvas Badges/Credentials. Also, How do I share my earned badges from my Parchment Digital Badges Backpack?
• For additional resources on sharing your badges, please submit a ticket to our Badge team for those with a St. Thomas email. If you are taking a St. Thomas professional development course and do not have a St. Thomas email, then contact the program contact listed on the home page of the badge course.