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Adding Qualification Details to a Badge

Record a qualification's level, type, grade, credits and field of study on a Navigatr badge, or fill them in from the Ofqual register.

Written by Support Desk

If you are an awarding body, or your badge stands for a regulated qualification, you can record its details on the badge itself: the level, the qualification type, the grade, the credits and the field of study. Learners and employers then see them on the badge page, on each issued badge and on the certificate, and they travel with the badge as Open Badges data. You no longer need to squeeze them into the badge title or image.

You add these details in the badge editor, while creating a badge or editing one you already have.

Showing the qualification fields

The qualification details live in the Qualification card of the badge editor. Which fields you see depends on the badge type.

  1. Go to Content > Badges and open the badge, or start a new one.

  2. In the Standards card, under Type of Learning, select Qualification.

  3. Scroll to the Qualification card. Qualification Number, Qualification Type, Qualifications Framework, Level and Grade now appear.

  4. Fill in the fields you need. For a qualification on the Ofqual register, enter its number in Qualification Number and click Look up to fill in the level, field of study and credit value.

  5. Click Save.

Some notes:

  • Field of Study, Credit Value and Credit Unit show for every badge type, not just qualifications. Credit Value works for CPD points too.

  • The other qualification fields need the Navigatr Badge Framework. If you removed it to upload your own badge image, only Field of Study, Credit Value and Credit Unit are available.

The Qualification card in the badge editor, filled in with an Ofqual number, Certificate, RQF Level 3, Distinction, a field of study and 60 credits, with the cursor on the Look up button.

What each field means and where it shows

Every field is optional. Fill in the ones that describe your qualification.

  • Qualification Number: the qualification's code, such as its Ofqual number. It shows on the badge page and the certificate.

  • Qualification Type: Award, Certificate or Diploma.

  • Qualifications Framework: the framework the level belongs to. Choose from RQF (England and Northern Ireland), CQFW (Wales), SCQF (Scotland), EQF (Europe) and QFEmirates (UAE).

  • Level: the qualification level within that framework, such as Level 3 or Entry 2. The levels on offer change with the framework you pick. This is not the same as the badge's mode (Explore to Lead) from the Navigatr Badge Framework. Choosing a level adds the matching standard, such as RQF Level 3, to the badge for you.

  • Grade: Pass, Merit, Distinction or Distinction*. If you set it here, every issued copy of the badge gets this grade. If learners earn different grades, leave it blank and set each learner's grade and credits when you issue: see Issuing Digital Badges via Email, or use the Grade and Credits Earned columns in a bulk CSV.

  • Field of Study: the subject area, from Ofqual's sector subject areas, such as 1.3 Health and social care. Search the list and pick the closest one.

  • Credit Value: how many credits the badge is worth, such as 60.

  • Credit Unit: what Credit Value counts, such as CPD points. Leave it blank and we show "credits". The unit is not included in the badge's Open Badges data.

If you leave the badge image subtitle blank, we fill it from the level, grade and credits, such as LEVEL 3 · 60 CREDITS. It has room for 22 characters, so we drop the credits and then the grade if it runs over. To show the grade on the image, create one badge per grade and set the grade on each. A blank image title works the same way: once you set the field of study and qualification type, it shows them on two lines, such as Health and Social Care, then Diploma.

Tip: For help with qualification details, contact [email protected].

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