My Digital Credential FAQs
Learn More About Showcasing Your CDA® Credential with a Digital Badge
Your Digital Credential Questions Answered
The CDA® digital credential is not a new credential, it is simply a new way to access and share your CDA credentialing achievement online. No more waiting to receive the CDA® certificate in the mail. The CDA digital credential empowers earners to download and print their CDA certificate online, verify their credential setting and status, and share their digital badge on their preferred social networks.
You’ve put in the work, and now it’s time celebrate! Shout it from the rooftops to your family, friends, and future employers that you’ve successfully demonstrated your knowledge, skills, and career readiness by earning the CDA® credential.
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.
No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
Yes, you can still receive a printed copy of your CDA® credential. You can print your credential for free through the Credly system by downloading and printing it at your convenience. If you prefer a professionally printed certificate with an embossed gold seal, you can order one directly from the Council by logging into your YourCouncil account. A $30 printing fee will apply.
You will receive an email notification from Credly (admin@credly.com) with instructions for accepting your badge and setting up your account.
You can find video tutorials in the yellow bar on the My Digital Credential landing page or visit our playlist on YouTube. Additional tutorials and answers to your questions can be found here: support.credly.com
A digital credential is the official verification of your achievement as a CDA holder. A digital badge is a visual representation of that credential, designed for sharing and promoting your accomplishment across digital platforms.
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 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 occupation insights, based on your skills.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in Credly. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
We have partnered with Credly to translate the learning 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! Digital badges are becoming a widely accepted form of credential verification across industries, including early childhood education.
Absolutely! You can add your badge to your resume, job applications, LinkedIn, and even your email signature to show off your professional achievement.
Open badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome which can be verified in real-time, online.
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 accepting 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.
Check out the yellow video tutorials bar on the My Digital Credential landing page.
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.