Digital credentials

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Our digital badges allow you to share your ACU affiliation with your colleagues, peers, employers, and your wider network. Digital badges can be used across social media channels and e-mail signatures.

A digital credential is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, or interest. It is offered to individuals in the form of either a digital badge (sometimes referred to as ‘ebadge’), or a digital certificate.

ACU currently offers the opportunity for all nominated ACU Ambassadors to obtain a digital badge provided they remain employed by their member institution.

ACU Ambassador badges are portable, immutable, verifiable, and uniquely linked to you. By providing these digitally, you can promote your ACU membership more easily to potential partners and your professional network. You can also opt-in to the digital register which offers an online, searchable record of your digital credentials.

Ambassadors will be sent an e-mail and activation link each year as part of their institution’s membership renewal process. You can use the link within the e-mail to activate your badge.

ACU periodically contacts Ambassadors with an invitation to claim their badge if it hasn’t already been claimed. We invite Ambassadors to get in touch if they have not yet received an invitation. A registered e-mail address will be required to dispatch the credential.

We will only issue the digital credential to an email address associated with your institution. We recommend that you use a university e-mail address to which you currently have access. It should not be a generic, shared, or departmental e-mail address, as the credential issued will be exclusively for your use and cannot be transferred. Please note that the address and membership status may be verified before your credentials are dispatched.

A unique URL is one of the most valuable ways to share your credential. It can be placed in a variety of places, including but not limited to:

Social media profiles
Websites and blogs
Digital resumes
Email signatures

Widgets on your credential view allow you to display your badge on most social media channels at the click of a button.

Colleagues and others within your professional network can easily verify your credentials. Once you share this (through any of the options above), a viewer can verify its authenticity by searching your unique ID or clicking the link, which directs the verifying party to view the full details of your credential.

To further strengthen the verification of your ACU Ambassador badge, our provider (Accredible) utilises Blockchain technology to ensure that credentials remain uneditable and fraud-proof.

Your digital badge is valid for the duration of the membership cycle, which runs from the August 1 to July 31 each year. After this period, you will have the option to renew your credential if your institution continues to hold membership with ACU.

ACU Ambassador badges are colour coded to delineate the geographic region that the Ambassador’s institution is based in. This is to help members identify colleagues you may wish to connect with and facilitate cross-regional engagement.

If you’d like to find out who your university’s Ambassador is, please e-mail: membership@acu.ac.uk

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