Digital Badging and Micro-Credential Platform

The Vendor is required to provide digital badging and micro-credential platforms, including commercial, open-source, hosted, and hybrid solutions.
- Requirement:
1. Credential creation and management
• Digital badge creation and issuance
• Micro-credential management
• Credential templates
• Workflow approvals
• Credential versioning
• Credential expiration and renewal
• Credential revocation
• Bulk issuance
• Automated issuance
• Dynamic credential generation
• Pathway and stackable credential mapping
2. Credential standards and interoperability
• Open badges 3.0 compliance
• 1edtech certification status
• Comprehensive learner record compatibility
• Credential engine integration
• Credential transparency description language (CTDL)
• Learning and employment record (LER) support
• Skills- and competency-based credential frameworks
• Skills taxonomy alignment
• Credential registry integrations
3. Metadata and evidence
• Ability to capture and display:
• Learning outcomes
• Competencies
• Skills
• Assessments
• Rubrics
• Artifacts in multiple formats (e.g., documents, video, images, etc.)
• Student work products in multiple formats (e.g., documents, video, images, etc.)
• Third-party (e.g., employers, organizations, agencies, etc.) endorsements
• Industry validation
• Credential criteria
• Issuer information
• Expiration dates
• Verification information
4. Learner experience
• Learner-owned and managed credentials
• Digital wallet or backpack functionality
• Credential portability
• Downloadable credentials
• Public/private sharing controls
• Mobile access
• Career portfolio integration (e.g., adobe creative cloud, adobe portfolio)
• Resume integration
• Linkedin integration
• Social media sharing
• Customizable learner profile pages
5. Employer and workforce features
• Employer and other third-party access and verification tools
• Skills-based hiring support
• Credential search capabilities
• Talent marketplace integration
• Workforce board integration
• Industry partner access
• Labor market information integration
• Skills gap analysis
6. Multi-institution and consortium support
• Cross-institutional s support (i.e., single instance environment to support multiple campuses)
• Institution-specific branding
• Shared credential frameworks
• User roles and permissions
• System administration and maintenance
• System-wide and campus-based reporting
7. Reporting and analytics
• Credentials issued
• Credentials earned
• Credential acceptance rates
• Credential sharing activity
• Verification activity
• Learner engagement
• Program participation
• Skills attainment
• Employer and third-party engagement
• Customization and export capabilities
• API access to reporting data.