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Credly

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What is Credly?

Credly, headquartered in New York, offers an employee or specialist digital credentialing (alternately "digital badge") program, providing tools to provide and track employee or trainee certification and certifying processes.

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Credly meets your digital badging needs

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to design badges
  • Great customer support
  • Lots of analytics available

Cons

  • If badges are linked or dependent on each other for earners, all need to be ready to launch at the same time.
  • Creating the metadata, as a new administrator of digital badging, is a little cumbersome. Takes a while to understand.
  • The upload process for issuing bulk badges is not difficult, but involves several steps that all need to be followed very specifically with no errors.

Most Important Features

  • Flexibility with badge designs
  • Robust online help, whether it is articles, FAQ's or chat/support features
  • Affordable

Return on Investment

  • Time consuming to set up the metadata behind the badges

Alternatives Considered

Badgr and Accredible

Other Software Used

GoToWebinar, Airmeet, Microsoft Teams

In-Credly-ble...

Incentivized
Verified User
Administrative Assistant (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Ease of Use: Set Up - Very user friendly.
  • Ease of Use: Sharing - Can add it to emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
  • Credly badge is well known, so the reputation helped in the transition for our diplomates.

Cons

  • To revoke a badge and later upload is time consuming.

Most Important Features

  • Ease of Use in Set Up
  • Easy to Train Staff
  • Easy for Diplomates to Utilize

Return on Investment

  • Increased Awareness.
  • Increased Recognition of the Profession.
  • Awareness Brought in New Applicants.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Teams

Everybody needs Credly

Incentivized
Verified User
Program Manager in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Portable credentials
  • Integrations with multiple prominent companies like DigitalMarketer and Pragmatic Institute (through Acclaim)

Cons

  • Needs a single login for Acclaim and Credly
  • View Acclaim and Credly credentials on one account

Return on Investment

  • It's given me a place to publicly host my certifications.

Other Software Used

Acuity Scheduling, DocuSign, Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS), Delighted, NiceJob, Intercom, Klipfolio, Microsoft Power BI, Honey, LastPass for Business