Digital Badges
UWPCE digital badges help you showcase your University of Washington education and demonstrate your new skills and competencies.
What's a Digital Badge?
A digital badge is an online representation of your learning achievements and competencies. You can now earn digital badges in many UW Professional & Continuing Education courses, specializations and certificates.
Here’s how to use your digital badges:
Showcase Your Skills: Post your badge to highlight your achievements and skills on social media, career profiles, job applications, resumes and more.
Share a Verifiable Credential: Employers and learning institutions can use your badge’s unique embedded data to easily validate the education and skills you gained at UWPCE.
Build a Portfolio: Collect multiple badges to demonstrate your knowledge and professional development as you continue learning.
Achievement Badges
Many of our certificate programs, specializations and courses award digital achievement badges. The achievement badge means that you met all requirements and successfully completed the program. Certificate programs typically offer a badge for both the program and each of the courses. Check the program page to see if the program you’re interested in offers a badge or badges.
Skill Badges
Several of our courses offer skill badges. Skill badges testify to your competency in certain skills or topics covered in the course. You can earn a skill badge by scoring above a certain threshold on key assessments in the course. Check the course page to see if the course you’re interested in offers a skill badge.
UWPCE Badge Library
To view details about specific badges, visit the UWPCE badge library.
FAQ
Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about what happens when you earn a digital badge through a UW Professional & Continuing Education program.
After you successfully complete your course or program, you’ll be notified that your badge is ready to claim.
If you’ve met all academic requirements, you’ll receive notice that you’ve earned your badge about a week after your course or program concludes. If you don’t receive an email or see your badge in Canvas, email our Help Desk.
At UW Professional & Continuing Education, we partner with Canvas for a seamless learning and credentialing experience. You’ll claim badges you earn through Canvas. If you need assistance, email our Help Desk.
When you’re a student in an eligible UWPCE program, you’ll receive detailed instructions about how to share your badges on social media, email and other online platforms.
Using your digital badges online can help you stand out to employers by showing what you learned from a distinguished, accredited public university. Plus, potential employers or managers can view your badge and verify your skills with just a click.
Yes. If you earn your badge in a UWPCE certificate program or specialization, you’re also eligible to receive a paper certificate of completion. If you don’t receive information on how you can get a paper certificate within 8-12 weeks after your program ends, contact Registration Services.
Not yet. We started issuing badges for courses and programs on a larger scale in 2023. If your course qualifies for a digital badge, it will be indicated on your course Canvas site. Unfortunately, we can’t issue badges retroactively.
UWPCE digital badges are part of the Open Badges network. Our badges include data and information about your specific program, including when your badge was issued and a digital signature verifying your University of Washington education.
Additional Resources
For Prospective Students
Contact Enrollment Services for more information about badge-eligible programs.
For Enrolled Students
For questions about your badges, contact your student support specialist.
For technical support, login to in Canvas or email the Help Desk.
