Badging: How to Share Digital Badges and Microcredentials

This page explains how to share badges after you already created your St. Thomas Canvas Credential (formerly called 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 Canvas Credentials? 

The University of St. Thomas partners with Canvas Credentials (formerly called Badgr), 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 Canvas Credential account and start earning badge credentials, you will be able to display/share badges you earned on your social media pages (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook), resume, online portfolio, or personal website. Also, all your badges can be stored in your Canvas Credential 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 Canvas Credential account at using your St. Thomas badge username and password that you used to set up your Canvas Credential (Badgr) account. Or another way to get to your badges is to log in at Stthomas.badgr.com (using the credentials you used to create your St. Thomas badge account) and look for My Badges.

How to Start Sharing Badges from Canvas Badges/Credentials?  

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.

These instructions from Canvas Credentials provide the most current information on Sharing badges from Canvas Badges/Credentials.

St. Thomas also has video tutorials on several ways to share your badges on the OneStThomas.edu Badge and Microcredential page under video resources.  Note, the video resources refer to Badgr but just know the overall steps are the same and we have not updated the videos to say "Canvas Credential" instead of Badgr. 

For additional resources on sharing your badges, please submit a ticket to our Badge team for additional support.