What are digital badges? Earn your first digital badge.

Your skills can open up opportunities. Digital badges help you show them.

Discover how badges work, take the quiz and earn your first badge.

Digital Badge Basics badge, issued by Badge School

A verified record of what you’ve learned.

A digital badge is a verifiable record of something you’ve learned, achieved or demonstrated.

Behind the image, you can see what you achieved, who recognised it, what you did to earn it and the skills involved.

So someone viewing your badge can understand what it means.

Approved Driving Instructor badge, Belfast City CouncilDesign of Heat Pump Systems badge, LMPProductivity with Digital Tools badge, future.now and City & GuildsProblem Solving with AI badge, ARU and SHOKE
  • What you achieved
  • Who recognised it
  • What you did to earn it
  • The skills involved

Meet your skills wallet: All your skills. One place.

Your digital wallet is your own place to keep your badges and achievements together from different organisations and different parts of your life.

  • Qualifications
  • Work
  • Training
  • Volunteering
  • Experiences

A richer picture of what you can actually do.

A Navigatr wallet showing a profile and a grid of earned digital badges
Share to LinkedIn and many more platforms with the click of a button.

Using your badges: Put your skills to work.

Your badges aren’t just something to collect. They’re yours to use.

Share them when you’re applying for work or learning, progressing where you are.

  • Applications
  • Your CV
  • LinkedIn
  • Internal opportunities
  • Projects
  • Progression
  • Customers and clients

You choose what you share and when.

From people you know and trust.

Employers, colleges, universities, training providers and charities award digital badges.

You might earn one for completing training, taking part in work experience, volunteering or demonstrating a skill.

Earn your Digital Badge Basics badge.

  1. Learn the basics.

    Everything you need for the quiz is on this page.

  2. Take the quiz.

    It only takes 1 minute to complete.

  3. Claim your badge.

    We’ll email you a link to claim it and set up your free Navigatr wallet.

Digital Badge Basics badge, issued by Badge School

Good to know.

Does it cost anything?

No. Earning this introductory badge and using your Navigatr wallet are free.

Do I need experience with digital badges?

No. This is a place to start, whatever your age or experience.

Is a digital badge a qualification?

Some badges represent qualifications. Others recognise training, experience or participation. The badge details explain what yours represents.

What happens when I earn it?

You’ll receive an invitation to claim your badge, with instructions to help you add it to your wallet.

Do I have to share it?

No. You decide whether to share your badge and who to send it to.

See how it works. Earn one yourself.

Take the quiz, claim your badge and make your first achievement visible.

Want to explore what comes next? Discover your free skills wallet.