Recognition of your learning

Digital badges

Digital badges are a new way of demonstrating online that you have gained a skill. Schools, colleges and universities are working with employers and other organisations to develop open badges that help learners gain recognition for their skills, and support employers to identify the right candidate for a job.

If you are interested in finding out more about digital badges go to the Badges and quizzes [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]   guide.

Being awarded a Caring Counts in the Workplace badge shows that you have:

• gained an understanding of the process of reflection and planning in your role as a manager and policy maker supporting carers in the workforce
• achieved the learning outcomes for the course.

Course completion criteria

To gain the course badge you need to have enrolled on the course and achieved the following completion criteria:

• agree to the badge trust statement for this course
• read each session
• attempt quiz 1
• achieve 40% for quizzes 2–5.

You don’t need to read the full session and complete all the questions in a quiz in one sitting. Each time you visit and log into the course it keeps a record of your progress. This means you can stop and come back to where you left off at any time.

Once you’ve completed all the questions in a quiz it’s time to submit your answers. You can only do this once, so make sure you’re happy with how you’ve answered all the questions before you click on ‘submit all and finish’.

Once you have successfully completed the course badge criteria, you will see the ‘badge’ within your profile under My badges on OpenLearn Works. You will be able to display this Caring Counts in the Workplace badge in other online places too.

Badge trust statement

The OpenLearn Works non-accredited badging system relies on trust. We trust you to answer the questions at the end of each session in the course, drawing on your own skills and knowledge as we do not have formal exams or invigilation as part of OpenLearn Works units and courses. The badge trust statement asks you to agree that the answers you submit to the course quizzes are your own work and that you will not share your answers with other learners.

There is more guidance on How to complete the course quizzes and How your Caring Counts in the Workplace badge is issued in the Resources section of the course.