Informal Credentials or Digital Badges
The Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) awards digital badges, or informal credentialing, for the successful completion of this workshop. We award badges as an informal credential in order to help workshop participants, who wish to, make public the fact that they have developed version control skills using GitHub.
DSC electronic badges are cryptographically signed and have the recipients email address embedded in the signing so that it cannot be used by anyone else. Also embedded in the badge is a link to the learning objectives for the workshop so that employers or anyone who sees the badge can determine what was done to earn the badge.
DSC badges are awarded at the request of workshop participants after a DSC staff member has verified that they have successfully completed one or more of the workshop hands-on workshop activities. You can see a list of all the badges offered by the DSC on our Badgr page.
Earn an Informal Credential or Badge for GitHub
If you’d like to earn a DSC badge for this workshop, please email a link to your newly created repository to: dscommons@uvic.ca
Learn how you can share your DSC Badge
To learn more about DSC badges and how you can share your them on LinkedIn profile, personal website, or resume, check our DSC Badges webpage.