Digital Badges

Digital badges are an electronic tool to help you promote the certifications you have earned with ABC on social media, email, website and electronic resumes. They protect the integrity of your credential by providing a link to verified and secured data from ABC that cannot be falsified.

Your badge earned date will only reflect the date in which you earned your most recent credential. In some instances, you may have a substantial gap of time between earning your first and second credential. If this is the case, we suggest adding details to the bio section of your badge profile such as when you received your first credential, what that credential was and how long you have been working in the profession.

No. Digital Badges through ABC are completely voluntary. Use of this service will in no way affect your certification or accreditation status with ABC.

Your digital badge, managed through the Credly platform, will enable viewers to instantly verify the authenticity of your certification and to understand what was required to earn it. ABC provides continuous updates to Credly ensuring that the most current and accurate information is available.

You should have already received an email from Credly inviting you to claim your ABC badge(s). A separate email invitation was issued for each of the active ABC credentials you hold.

If you never received your badge invitation email…
and none of the reasons listed below apply to you, please contact us at info@abcop.org or 703-836-7114.

Reasons why you may not have received a badge email invite:

• You are currently not in good standing with ABC and/or your certification is currently not active due lack of payment or MCE credits. Once you have paid and completed your MCE requirements, you will be sent an email inviting you to claim your badge. 
• We do not have a valid email for you. Log in to your MY ABC account to view your current contact information and make any changes. 
• Your invitation email landed in your JUNK or SPAM folders. Be sure to check these folders and add admin@credly.com to your safe senders list.

If you accidentally deleted your invitation email…
Check your deleted emails folder or go to www.credly.com and simply create an account using the email address to which your badge was issued. If your badge does not appear in your profile, please contact us so we can resend your invitation.

An email address is a must. Digital badges can only be claimed through email. You can quickly and easily set up a free email account with providers such as Google and Yahoo.

Shared emails can cause issues with your badge. Please send a unique email address to info@abcop.org and request that we can resend your invitation.

For more information and How To's, please visit Credly's Help Center.

For more information and How To's, please visit Credly's Help Center.

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