The DigiSkills Cymru Guide to Claiming Credit with Credly

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Guide to claiming Credit Badges with Credly (& putting them in your Mozilla Backpack) Well done for making it all the way to beautiful North Wales for the frst EDGE project meeting. Your hosts, WEA Cymru, have made an Open Badge to recognise this achievement and start your Open Badges journey.

This guide has been created to help you to claim this badge from Credly.com

Step 1: Receiving your Credly badge First, send an email to Ceri Lewis ceri.lewis@weacymru.org.uk, letting her know you've arrived safely at Plas Menai, your venue for this week.

If you already have a Mozilla Persona or Backpack account, please use the email address associated with this account to contact Ceri. It will help lots.

If not, go to http://backpack.openbadges.org and create an account.

Soon you will receive an email from WEA Cymru Workplace letting you know that you have been issued with a digital badge.

Click the “Share & Save� button on the email

Step 2: Creating a Credly account

Click “Login to Save & Share”, then “Sign up now” on the sign in screen

Enter your email address (the same email that you have used for Mozilla Persona or Mozilla Backpack) and other details.

Read the Terms of Service, Private Policy and then click “Sign Up Now”

Step 3: Verifying your Credly account You will be taken back to the badge page, which will have this message at the top.

So, if check your email and you should see an email like this from Credly.

Click the activation link to verify your account. You will then be taken back to your badge on the Credly website.

Step 4: Accept and Save your badge

You should now be taken back to the badge page. Now you need to click “Accept & Save”, choose if you want to accept WEA Cymru Workplace badges automatically, and whether or not you want the badge to be made public.

Click “Save and Accept” again.

Step 5: Linking Credly to Mozilla Backpack

Go to “Account Settings” from the menu on the left hand side of the screen In the “Social Settings and Auto Share” box on the right, hover your cursor at the end of “openbadges.org” and click the word Link when it appears.

This will bring up a Mozilla Persona pop-up window.

Use this to sign in to or create your Mozilla Persona (i.e. Mozilla Backpack) account. Follow the process as it appears on your screen.

Then give Credly permission to access your Backpack.

Step 6: Adding your badge to your Backpack

Hover your pointer over the EDGE Project badge and click the share icon.

Then click on the “Mozilla� button.

You may then see this pop-up window from Mozilla. Follow the log-in process as it appears on your screen.

Step 7: Accepting your badge into your Backpack

Once logged in to your backpack, you will be asked again whether you would like to accept the badge. Click “Yes” to accept, and then “Thanks” when you see the confrmation message below.

...And here it is, your lovely badge in your very own Mozilla Backpack ready to be collected and shared along with the other Open Badges that you earn.

You can also add the “Credly Member” badge that also appears in the “My Credit” section of your Credly account in the same way (go back to Step 6).

“DigiSkills Cymru – Public Services Learning & Working Online” is a 2013-16 Wales Union Learning Fund (WULF) project created and sponsored by UNISON Cymru Wales, funded by the Welsh Government and hosted by WEA Cymru. It aims to help public service workers in Wales to make the most of digital technologies for learning and in the workplace.

Enhancing the delivery of Guidance and Employability (EDGE) is a European Union Erasmus+ project.

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