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Earn, Claim and Share Your Credentials

A practical guide for earners, from accepting a badge to using it in an application.

  • Ability
  • L1 Contribute
  • Foundation
  • Earner experience and agency
  • ICB-F03
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Why this course

Programmes depend on earners claiming and sharing. If they do not, verifiers never see the credential and the programme has no effect. A short earner module that members can embed in their own onboarding costs little and serves every issuer. It is an Ability badge because the earner performs the task.

What you will be able to do

  1. Claim a credential and store it in a backpack or wallet of your choice.
  2. Share a credential on a profile, CV or application and check how a recipient will see it.
  3. Set privacy options and decide what to make public.
  4. Describe what to do when a credential expires, is revoked or the issuer closes.

Modules

  1. What you received and why it matters
  2. Claiming and storing
  3. Sharing with purpose
  4. Your privacy choices
  5. Using credentials in applications and conversations

Assessment

Practical task in a sandbox: claim a demo badge, share it by link and set its visibility; submit the link and two short reflections.

Badge evidence: Link to the shared demo credential; reflection answers.

Prerequisites: None

Who it is for

  • Earners
  • Education and providers
  • Companies and employers

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkEXPRskillL1levelAstage

Earner experience and agency (EXPR, VRITE pillar Experience)

Related skills: Security, privacy and data protection, Digital identity and wallets. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Self-paced module for L&D and corporate academy leads. Badge aligns to ICSF EXPR L1 (SFIA 1 to 2) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as skill evidence; competency on the job needs a V-series validation.

In education

Micro-credential of 1.5 h notional workload (about 0.1 ECTS), indicative EQF 3 to 4, assessed by assessed practical task with rubric. Stacks into pathway PW11.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 1.5 h (about 0.1 ECTS). Level: ICSF L1, EQF 3 to 4 (indicative). Type of assessment: assessed practical task with rubric. Form of participation: Online, asynchronous. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: none.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Part of these pathways

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Experience: earner control and clarity.

AI dimension: Shows how to check AI-written profile text against what the credential actually claims.

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