NCBTMB & Credly

Digital badges are an electronic representation of your Board Certification or Approved Provider status that is visual, available online and embedded with metadata that provides context, meaning and the result of an activity. Digital badges give clients, students and potential employers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn them and what you’re now capable of doing.

Your NCBTMB digital badge is easy to manage, verify and share online. Digital badges provide clients, students and employers evidence of what you have done and why it’s important.

Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential or certification which can be verified in real-time, online.

We have partnered with Credly to translate the outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through the company digital badging platform. The technology Credly uses is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally.

Yes, this digital badge is in addition to your certificate. The digital badge has been created to help you promote your abilities online.

Representing your skills as a badge gives you a way to share your abilities online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time. Badges provide clients, students, employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Credly also offers labor market insights, based on your skills.

Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. Credly works with credible organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.

You will receive an email notification from Credly (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account.

You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.

No. This is a service provided by NCBTMB at no cost to you.

While badges are simply digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than a paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.

You can share your badge directly from Credly to LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

Labor market insights are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skills you can learn which employers are hiring, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. Search active job listings and even apply for them with just a few clicks through Credly. Access the labor market insights from your badge details page by clicking on Related Jobs, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.

Yes, you can download your badge from the Share Badge page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites, such as the Badgr Backpack.

Not at this time.

You can find tutorials and answers to additional questions here: support.credly.com

When you expire, a notice is placed on your digital badge stating that your Board Certification or Approved Provider designation has expired.  When you renew, you will be sent a new badge link showing that you are in good standing.