Integrating an achievement with Credly will automatically issue the Credly badge whenever the achievement is awarded on Riipen.
General
Prerequisites
Your portal must have the Credly portal integration configured. Please see our Credly portal integration documentation for details.
Issuing badge data
When an achievement is awarded on Riipen, the integrated Credly badge will automatically be issued with the following data:
Recipient email: the user's primary email who was awarded the achievement
Issued at: the timestamp when the achievement was awarded
Issued to first name: the user's first name who was awarded the achievement
Issued to last name: the user's last name who was awarded the achievement
Additional badge data
When an achievement is awarded on Riipen, additional information an be passed from Riipen to Credly as support evidence.
User evidence - when enabled, will additionally send user's name and link to their Riipen profile
Company evidence - when enabled, will additionally send the associated company's name and link to their Riipen profile
Project evidence - when enabled, will additionally send the associated project's name and link to it on Riipen
Portal evidence - when enabled, will additionally send the associated portal's name and link to it on Riipen
Each additional piece of evidence can be further configured with:
A static name override
A static description override
If associated data is not applicable to the particular achievement, then the evidence is not sent. For example, if Project evidence is configured to be sent, but the achievement in question does not involve a project, then no evidence is sent when the Credly badge is issued.
How to
Enable the Credly integration
To integrate an achievement with a Credly badge:
Navigate to the achievement you wish to issue as a badge in Credly.
Click the "Settings" tab.
Select the "Integrations" tab
Select the "Credly" option.
Configure your Credly integration by entering in your Credly Badge ID and any additional evidence you wish.
Click "Submit"
Manually issue a Credly badge
Sometimes you may wish to manually force a Credly badge to be issued before a learner fully completes an achievement or to fix an issue where Credly had no previously been able to issue a badge.
To do this, follow these steps:
Navigate to your achievement.
Click the "Progress" tab
Select the user you want to issue the Credly badge to
Click the 3-dot menu in the top right corner
Click "Issue Credly badge"
Disable the Credly integration
Navigate to your achievement you wish to update.
Click the "Settings" tab
Select the "Integrations" tab.
Select the "Credly" option.
Click on the "Delete" button to remove the integration.