Digital badges, also known as micro-rewards or digital accreditation, are a visual representation of an accomplishment that you can display online through LinkedIn, in a digital CV or email signature.
Badges can be achieved through a variety of ways but ultimately all recognise your participation in extra-curricular activities hosted by Your SU. Badges make you more employable and a stand-out candidate.
Achievement badges are awarded for attending or participating in an activity, be it an event, workshop, or seminar. It is a recognition of your attending and requires no formal assessment.
These recognise your development of specialist knowledge or skills through, training, a project assessment, or skills demonstration.
Pathways are a series of achievement or competency badges that lead to an overall achievement known as a Mile Stone Pathway Badge and can help you achieve a Leadership Award.
You can see the full set of badges on Badgr.
By engaging with your students' union! By attending events, taking part in activities, holding a role (e.g. being a rep, volunteer, or committee member), and completing training.
You can find a full list of badges available and the criteria to earn each of them on BadgrThis link will open in a new tab, the University's Badge platform.
Once you have been rewarded a Badge you will get a notification sent to your University email, and the link will take you to Badgr where you can access all your Badges
The great thing about Badges is that you can share and display them on your LinkedIn profile.
If you want help finding out about badges and how you can qualify you can email skills.su@coventry.ac.uk or you can attend one of our Badges workshops and can find out when these are happening here.
Take a minute to update your profile so you will hear more about the opportunities and events you're interested in, and less about the ones you're not! Don't have time right now? You can always update your profile at yoursu.org/profile