What is a Digital Badge?
A digital badge is a visual representation of skills or knowledge you have gained and learned during a course or activity. You earn badges each time you successfully attend, participate in, and/or complete one of Cal Poly Pomona’s courses or activities that awards digital badges. By taking these types of courses or participating in these types of activities, you are able to build a set of digital credentials to demonstrate your own learning. Badges earned through Cal Poly Pomona are organized in a hierarchy that you can build upon.
Why earn a Digital Badge?
By earning a badge, you are providing employers with a quick and convenient way to digitally verify your acquired skills and knowledge at a glance. Digital badges provide a unique benefit during job searches because they allow prospective employers to discover qualified employees like you based specifically on your professionally relevant skills and experience. This can assist you in moving one step ahead of the competition during the hiring process.
Get Started with Digital Badges!
All Cal Poly students, faculty, and staff can earn digital badges. When you're ready to start your digital badge journey, simply log on using your CPP credentials.
What is a Pathway?
What is a pathway? Pathways were created to illustrate a specific learning journey. Pathways help learners see what they’ve done and what to do next. Pathways provide the ability for badge program administrators to map out badged curriculum in a format that is easy-to-follow for learners.
Get Started on a Pathway!
Admins can track group and individual progress on the pathway and award milestone badges automatically. Learners can track their own progress and look ahead to plan the next steps in their learning journey.
The CDP (Cyber Defender Pathway) Advanced Badge
This badge was created to provide CS students with in-depth knowledge and skills in several aspects of cybersecurity. Students will complete required and elective cyber-related courses as well as different PolyX extracurricular activities for full certification in the field. For instance, students will gain skills in identifying vulnerabilities, anticipating attacks, using defense tools, and developing cybersecurity strategies.
Why Earn Digital Badges
Learn about why students, faculty, and staff should earn digital badges.
Digital Credentials in the Workforce
Learn how to leverage them on platforms like LinkedIn, personal websites, and digital portfolios to enhance your professional profile and stand out to employers.
Honors digital badging at Illinois State University
Digital Badges for Students
Learn more about digital badging with this short video.
What is a Badge?
How do we recognize and value the way we learn today? Badges are a new idea to recognize the learning that happens anywhere and share it in the places that matter.