We are committed to providing you with the tools necessary to achieve your professional goals and we understand that communicating your credentials in an ever-expanding online marketplace can be challenging. That is why we have partnered with Credly to provide you with a digital version of your credentials. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. This digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them.
Credly Support: credlysupport@rid.org
What are Digital Credentials?
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Digital Credentials
The goal of deploying digital badges is to align RID with other certifying and membership organizations, while also increasing consumer protection.
Your Credly badge will clearly explain what you can do, what you did to earn this and who says you earned it. It does more than a plastic card!
We are no longer offering the option of physical cards. You will get a digital representation of your card through Credly. Your badge can be attached to emails, shared on social media and added to your smartphone’s wallet.
Bring a copy of your verification letter to attest that you are a certified RID member.
RID remains the testing and certification entity. Credly is only providing digital representation of your membership and credentials.
The assessments used for certification purposes, e.g. the NIC Interview and Performance Exam, are a pass/fail exam that assess whether a candidate demonstrates a minimum level of knowledge and skills for ASL interpreting in a general setting and using non-technical or nonspecialized vocabulary or language. Those with an “Advanced ” or “Master” designations have demonstrated that they scored a high level on one or both portions of the certification exam.
No, we are not selling your information to Credly or any other third parties.
The Credly benefit is optional, you do not have to accept the badges to maintain your certification or membership. However, you will not be able to get a digital representation of your card, and we no longer offer physical cards. The only way you will be able to verify your Certification will be through the RID directory and through a verification letter accessible in your member portal.
Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company digital badging platform. The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.
Please use this helpful tutorial for instructions on adding your badge to your signature line:
https://support.credly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021221691-Can-I-attach-my-badge-to-my-email-signature
Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through Credly.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
You can share your badge directly from Credly to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through Credly. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.
Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Badge Backpack.
Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search and apply for job opportunities right through Credly.
Not at this time.
You can find tutorials and answers to additional questions here: support.credly.com. If you have not yet received an email with your Credly link or you are experiencing issues with your Credly digital badge, please contact RID’s Credly Support team at credlysupport@rid.org.