Quality assurance built in: Build badges with confidence

The only digital badging platform with built-in quality assurance.

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A learner at a whiteboard, overlaid with the Navigatr badge mark
Trusted by organisations across the UK and Northern Ireland

The problem: Building trust is hard. With AI, creating badges is easy.

Most badging platforms verify that a badge was issued. They do not check the learning behind it. As volume grows, anyone reading it has no way to tell a carefully designed badge from one produced in minutes.

“In a recent international survey we found 85% of workers said quality-assured micro-credentials improved their ability to secure work.”
Stuart Martin - Micro-credential Quality Assurance Expert

The Navigatr difference

Four layers of trust

  1. Visual Framework

    Instant clarity

    A grid crossing five types of learning with five modes, from Explore to Lead, showing how each badge shape and its shading combine.

    One badge shape and colour system shows the type of learning and the mode of learning behind every badge, at a glance.

  2. Quality Assurance Mark

    Verified learning outcomes

    A badge outline carrying the Navigatr mark, labelled "Navigatr quality assured".

    The QA mark confirms what a badge covers, so anyone reading it knows the badge has been checked against the framework.

    1. Clear purpose
    2. Sound design
    3. Quality review
    4. External validation
    5. Real-world testing

  3. Endorsements

    Third party validation

    A badge criteria page with an endorsement from the Department for Communities attached to it.

    A third party can endorse a badge, adding an extra layer of confidence for employers and learners.

  4. Verified Organisations

    Real issuers only

    A badge issuer beside a verification tick.

    Every badge is issued by a verified organisation, so recognition can be traced back to a real, accountable issuer.

Choose your quality assurance path

Bronze

Learn and self certify

Free, self-paced. Learn our quality process and apply a structured self-review to the badges you create.

Get started with Bronze

Silver

Training and peer review

Expert-guided training, then structured peer review of your badges by trained practitioners.

Gold

Peer reviewed support

Expert-led from end to end, with a full review of your programme, badges, criteria and evidence model.

“This innovative approach to quality assurance gives us both the rigour and the freedom we need to recognise all skills consistently. Crucially, it provides employers with an essential additional layer of trust in the validity and reliability of the digital badge. Brilliant!”
Cameron King - Employment and Skills Programme Lead, Royal Borough of Kingston Council
“The peer review process really works. Having someone else present your badge back to you gives you a completely different perspective. Hugely valuable.”
Fran Wilby - Consultant
“Looking at badges we’d created two years ago, the QA checklist immediately showed us what we’d missed. The peer review spotted things we’d never noticed, like unclear assessment criteria. That’s feedback I can take straight back to the team.”
Ivan Barnett - Bradford City Council

What’s different about Navigatr

Most digital badging platforms are in the distribution business. We’re in the quality business.

Other platforms verify that a badge was issued. That is authenticity, not quality assurance.

Navigatr goes deeper. We make sure the badge accurately represents the learning, aligns with frameworks, has robust outcomes, and meets recognised standards.

The result: badges that employers trust, learners value, and your organisation can be proud of.

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Ready to start building badges with confidence?

Bronze QA Foundations is free and self-paced: learn our quality process, then apply a structured self-review to the badges you create.

Start the free Bronze QA course