How to Connect RISE Performance with a Three-Tier Digital Badge Structure: A University of Seoul Case
The University of Seoul's RISE project team bundled the outcomes of 7 programs across 3 areas (industry-academia cooperation, AI, and convergence regional innovation) into 15 digital badges. This is the design behind a three-tier structure connecting unit badges through pathways to a comprehensive certification, turning scattered university achievements into verifiable one-line credentials.
When AI Takes Over the 'Doing': How University Majors and Digital Badges Are Changing
When AI takes over the 'doing' of a major, what should universities teach? Daegu Haany University, a Glocal University 30 institution and the only triple AID30 winner, redefines competency as domain knowledge to problem definition to AI execution to selection, and records the results as verifiable digital badges. An interview with Vice Director Park Seung-hee.
From no code to a first AI product: how UD IMPACT proves its 'AI startup education' across India and Indonesia
An interview on how UD IMPACT issued the completion proof for its India-Indonesia university AI startup course 'Action AI' as Kolleges digital badges - drawing 2,400 learners in two months in a free, no-code course and hitting a 68% social share rate on first issuance via API integration with its own LMS.
Managing employee security-training completion: what changes with automatic certificates and digital badges
How BizMarket ran its employee security training on Kolleges' automatic certificates and digital badges - 166 credentials auto-issued, verifiable completion records, and client-proof requests handled in one screen.
Researching education for all: how SeeD connects a network of education experts
From fleeting association activities to verifiable records of growth - how SeeD adopted Kolleges digital badges.
Verifying the Authenticity of a Digital Badge
Pressing [Verify credential] on the badge detail page instantly confirms authenticity without the issuer's server. With just an issue code, verification link, or QR code, third parties such as recruiters can verify it themselves at [Credential Lookup].
Sharing Your Digital Badge
Tap the [Share this achievement] button on the badge detail page to share directly to LinkedIn, Facebook, or KakaoTalk, or copy the link and save the QR image to show your badge anywhere.
Exploring Your Badge Wallet
The badge wallet is the space that stores every digital badge you have received. Enter it by pressing [My Wallet] in the profile menu at the top right of the screen, then press a badge card to see its details or share and download it right away.
Downloading and Printing a Certificate
Press the [Download] button on the badge detail page and you can choose between Save as PNG image and Save as PDF document. The PDF carries a verification QR and URL, which makes it suitable for printing and submission.
Import Other Badges
From [Import other badges] at the bottom of your wallet, you can import a badge you received at another email by verifying that email, and a badge from another platform (Credly, Badgr, and the like) as an Open Badge file or URL.
Receiving Your Digital Badge
Press [Receive] in the email or [View certificate] in the KakaoTalk notification message, then complete identity verification, and your digital badge is stored permanently in your wallet. It takes about a minute.
Adding a Badge to Your LinkedIn Profile
Press the [Add to LinkedIn profile] button on the badge detail page and the LinkedIn certifications screen opens with the name, issuer, issue month and year, and certificate URL filled in automatically. Check the details, save, and you're done.
Checking the Badge Detail Page
The badge detail page shows every piece of information about a certificate — issuer, issue date, issuing criteria (earning criteria), skills, and co-issuers. Use the [Certificate] / [Badge] tabs on the left to switch between the two images.
Creating a Public Profile and Setting Its Visibility
A public profile is a page that gathers multiple badges into a single link. In the settings you can choose the visibility (Public, Anyone with the link, Private), the profile address, per-badge visibility, and your display name.
Recipient FAQ
The questions recipients ask most often, gathered in one place: what a digital badge is, whether it is secure, whether it expires. For the detailed steps, see the guide linked from each answer.
Running University Digital Badges: The Difference a Portal and Co-issuance Make (A Daegu Haany University Case)
University digital badges come down to operational structure beyond badge design. We lay out the differentiators that professors, education-innovation offices, and industry-academia foundations should look at: the dedicated portal Daegu Haany University built on Kolleges, co-issuance where two institutions sign together, KOLLEGES VERIFIED verification, and automatic issuance.
From Certificate Issuance to Connection: The Next Step in Outcome Management
Standards like Open Badges, CLR, and LER transform one-off certificate issuance into a connected, reportable flow of learning and employment outcomes.
'Technology' and 'care' on a single certificate - Korea Polytechnic University Daejeon Campus's 'AI × Human Care' co-issuance
Two universities in Daejeon co-issued a single digital badge bearing both institutions' logos, solving the NCS stage-recognition gap inside a RISE regional innovation consortium.
"Region, Industry, and University Thrive Together": President In-Seong Jang's Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology Opens the Next Stage of Regional Co-Prosperity with Digital Badges
Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology simultaneously rolled out Kolleges digital badges across three units, cutting national-program evidence work by 40% compared with paper certificates, and is now planning S/A/B grade differentiation to signal student competency to local employers.
From Hobby to Certification to Instructor: How Hongik University Sejong's Lifelong Learning Center Is Building a Virtuous Cycle of Education
Hongik Sejong's RISE-funded Lifelong Learning Center replaced paper certificates with tiered Level 1-3 digital badges to record and sustain a hobby-to-certification-to-instructor growth path.
Cheongju University Adopts Kolleges Digital Badge Learning Recognition System
Cheongju University piloted digital badge-based learning recognition in four intensive programs, enabling students to share verified project portfolios directly with employers.
The Strategy of Universities with High Employment Rates: Digital Badges That Convert Student Experience Into Outcomes
Digital badges turn invisible student experiences - extracurriculars, capstone projects, overseas programs - into verifiable, shareable competency credentials that employers can trust instantly.
Turning Alumni Back Into Customers: A Recommendation-Based Digital Badge Upselling System
Kolleges' admin-configured related-badge feature plus a built-in 1/3/7-day notification cadence turns badge earners into repeat enrollees - no external CRM required.
Education Marketing Automation, Built with Digital Badges | When Completion Becomes Marketing
Digital badges automate education marketing by turning every graduate share into an ongoing promotion loop - complete with custom ad banners, recommended next courses, and one-click sharing to 8 social networks.
How to Recruit Vocational Training Students: 6 Practical Promotion Strategies for KDT and Naeil Baeoom
Six actionable strategies - from D2L instructor branding and rapid trend-response curriculum to badge-driven social sharing - help KDT and vocational training programs increase enrollment without additional ad spend.
2025 Student Recruitment Marketing Trends: 7 Practical Strategies Every Education Institution Must Know
In 2025, education institutions win enrollments by combining CRM-driven funnel management, platform social proof, and digital badge sharing into a single data-grounded recruitment engine.
How to Grow Job Training Enrollment: Building a Structure Where Students Promote You Themselves
Digital badges turn course completions into a self-sustaining referral loop - learners share achievements across 8 platforms with one click, cutting paid-ad dependency while driving 40% of new enrollments through word-of-mouth.
A New Answer for Education Institution Branding: How to Survive in the Adult Job Training Market
Digital badges transform learner achievements into organic brand promotion, helping adult job training institutions build trust and stand out in a crowded, fast-growing market.
Boosting University Competitiveness Through Education Administration Automation
Automating university administration - from graduation checks to event attendance - saves over 90% of staff time and enables real-time digital credential issuance.
Automated Certificate Issuance in Just a Few Clicks
Kolleges automates certificate issuance end-to-end - upload an Excel participant list, set optional completion conditions, and the system generates and delivers every certificate in bulk with no manual editing.
Reinventing Educational Outcome Certification: SeeD's New Challenge | Kolleges
South Korea's Special Education Digital Education Association (SeeD) issued blockchain-based digital badges at EduPlus Week 2025, turning seminar completion and speaker recognition into verifiable, shareable credentials built on Open Badges 3.0.
The Practical Career Credential FastCampus Chose: Digital Badges
FastCampus replaced paper certificates with blockchain-verified digital badges across 8 KDT bootcamps, letting around 2,000 graduates carry verifiable project outcomes directly into their portfolios.
10 Art Schools Nationwide Use Digital Badges to Certify Emerging Artists' Careers | Kolleges
Ten Korean art universities teamed up with Woohyunmun Gallery to issue blockchain-verifiable Kolleges digital badges, turning exhibition records into portable career credentials for emerging artists.
Why Operating a Private Certification Is Harder Than Registering One | Kolleges
Discover why one-third of private certifications are abolished each year and how automating issuance, history management, and marketing prevents early abolishment.
Are More Digital Badges Always Better?
More digital badges only create value when each one is built on competency-driven design, outcome-based issuance, and real-world usability - quantity without that framework produces nothing but badge fatigue.
Innobiz IP Academy: Proving Practical Competencies With Digital Badges
Innobiz IP Academy replaced paper certificates with Open Badges 3.0 digital badges on blockchain, letting SME practitioners prove IP and tech-commercialization competencies on LinkedIn and portfolios.
Four Differentiators of the Kolleges Digital Badge: A Tailored Platform
Kolleges combines a branded homepage builder, end-to-end completion automation, built-in LMS, and a marketing analytics dashboard into one platform - going well beyond badge issuance alone.
Four Differentiators of the Kolleges Digital Badge: Badge Features
Kolleges differentiates its badges through per-learner achievement data, full brand customization, automated multilingual issuance, and built-in viral sharing across nine social platforms.
How TeamSparta Uses Digital Badges to Verify Hands-On Experience
TeamSparta replaced paper certificates in its Baro Intern program with Kolleges digital badges so graduates can share verifiable, LinkedIn-linked proof of real-world internship experience.
AI Education Is Now Credentialed by Digital Badges: An Innovation Case from Maeil Business Education Center
Maeil Business Education Center's AI specialist program shows how Open Badge-standard digital credentials reduce admin burden and extend brand reach long after training ends.
The Digital Badge POSTECH Chose: Proving Skill Beyond the Certificate
POSTECH issued Kolleges digital badges to graduates of its Blockchain and Digital Asset Specialist Program, giving learners a verifiable, metadata-rich credential shareable on LinkedIn and portfolios.
Automating Institutional Promotion with Digital Badges and LinkedIn Integration
Connecting your LinkedIn company page to Kolleges makes every learner badge share an automatic, zero-cost promotion of your institution's brand.
Kolleges Brand Story: Turning Experience into Career, Proving What You Learned | Digital Badges
Kolleges issues blockchain-backed digital microdegrees so every training experience - college, vocational, or corporate - becomes a verifiable, shareable career asset.
Kwangwoon University De-Butler × XRPL hackathon wraps up - interviews with the organizers and the top-prize winner
How the De-Butler × XRPL blockchain hackathon DE-BUTHON came together and wrapped up - told through interviews with the organizers and the top-prize winner, plus a behind-the-scenes look at issuing digital certificates and badges with one CSV upload.
The Growth of People is the Essence of Community - An Interview with Lee Il-gu, Leader of MACBE Planning | Kolleges
MACBE Planning uses Kolleges digital badges to turn K-Planning Conference participation into verifiable credentials, boosting brand recognition and community identity across seven cohorts.
"The UMC Innovation Story Leading 5,000 College Developers" - Junyoung Oh, Head of Operations at UMC | Kolleges
UMC cut its top support burden - endless certificate reissue requests from 1,000 students per cohort - by switching to Kolleges bulk digital badge issuance.
"Innovation Stories from Women Changing the World With Technology" - GDG SWU Lead Yewon Cho
GDG SWU adopted Kolleges digital badges to replace uncredible self-made PDFs, enabling QR-based auto-issuance at hackathons and giving Google-sponsored activities a trustworthy, shareable certificate.
[Our Local School Cohort 1 - New Business Startup Academy concludes: reshaping the paradigm of regional startup education] | Kolleges
Oursisun replaced manual certificate workflows with Kolleges to run a 55-person regional pre-startup cohort, automating issuance and brand-shareable credentials.
Add/Remove Admin Accounts
A step-by-step guide to inviting and removing admins by email in your Kolleges workspace, and adjusting permissions by enabling or disabling them without deleting the account.
Badge Design
In the Kolleges editor, you can adjust templates, badges, ribbons, icons, text, and attribute values step by step to complete a digital badge that fits your institution's brand.
Board Management
A step-by-step guide to the entire flow of creating a new board on the Kolleges admin page, registering posts with thumbnails, subtitles, locations, and more, and publishing them to the homepage.
Certificate Advertising Settings Guide: Adding Promotional Content to Verification Pages
From the Targeted Advertising tab on the certificate creation page, you can set up badge acquisition programs, related badges, and ad banners to drive re-enrollment and re-application conversions from verification page visitors.
How to Issue a Digital Badge
This guide walks you step by step through the full flow of Kolleges certificate issuance, from individual entry and bulk Excel upload to scheduled issuance.
Creating a Digital Badge
A step-by-step guide to the entire Kolleges certificate creation process, from entering basic information, skill tags, and acquisition conditions to adding co-issuers and enabling English certificates.
Certificate Design
A step-by-step guide for Kolleges admins to complete a digital-badge-linked certificate design that matches the organization's brand, using templates, icons, text, and attribute values.
Class Submissions
You can flexibly build your curriculum using four submission types (assignment, video, offline, live meeting) and their type-specific completion conditions.
Creating a Class
A step-by-step guide that walks you through configuring a class's basic information, the four curriculum mission types, and tuition, all the way to automatically issuing digital badges based on a mission completion rate threshold.
Class Usage Guide: Key Features for Running Lessons and Courses
From the Class tab, apply for the class you want, and as you complete missions using the curriculum, assignments, and leaderboard, a badge is issued once you meet the reward conditions and can be viewed in your badge wallet.
Community Management
This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how admins can directly configure and operate the categories, posts, comments, and leaderboard of the Kolleges community.
Custom Attribute Value Pseudonymization Guide: Safely Protecting Personal Information on Badges
When you set the pseudonymization switch to ON for a digital badge custom attribute, sensitive information such as name and date of birth is masked on the public verification page, safely protecting personal information.
Getting 200% Out of Your Startup School Digital Badge
A practical 5-step guide to using the Startup School enrollment digital badge, from downloading the PNG to applying it as a certification mark in your website footer and careers page.
Custom Domain Address
This guide covers the 9-step DNS configuration procedure (adding A and CNAME records) for connecting an organization-owned domain as your homepage address in Kolleges, as well as how to disconnect it.
Homepage Design Editing Guide: Customizing Your Badge Platform Brand
A step-by-step editing guide for completing a homepage that matches your organization's brand by editing 9 components such as the logo, theme color, and banners in the Kolleges admin screen.
Checking Digital Badge Issuance History
From the Kolleges issuance history screen, you can see the receipt status, share status, and expiration date of badges and certificates at a glance, and manage and export them in bulk.
Issuer Settings
[Primary] issuer information (institution name, symbol, official seal, logo) and the LinkedIn code must be registered first before you can officially issue badges and certificates.
Plan Upgrade Guide: How to Manage Payments and Subscriptions
A clear overview of the entire subscription management process admins need to know, from the Kolleges Starter, Pro, and Premium plan upgrade steps to reviewing payment history and changing cards.
LinkedIn Page Management
When you register your LinkedIn page code in your Kolleges issuer settings, the issuer's name and logo are displayed when a recipient adds the badge to their profile.
Discord Integration Guide: How to Set Up Automatic Kolleges Badge Notifications
When you integrate a Discord server with your Kolleges group, a real-time notification is sent to the designated channel as soon as a certificate is issued, and recipients can also share to Discord from the receiving page. To set up the integration, send your server and channel ID to customer support to apply.
Member List Management Guide: How to Add Members, Check Information, and Set Permissions
This guide walks Kolleges education admins step by step through the full flow of adding members via individual invitation or bulk Excel upload, viewing and deleting member information by status (full member, joining, invited), and approving or rejecting members awaiting admin approval.
Menu Settings
In the Kolleges admin menu, create a new page, change its status to 'Connected', then add it to the menu and save to organize your homepage navigation into the structure you want.
Payment & Application Management Guide: How to Manage Enrollment Applications and Payment History
A clear overview of the practical workflow every Kolleges operator should know, covering payment and application history lookups, partial and full refund processing, and Excel settlement exports.
Pseudonymization Release Guide: Restoring Original Custom Attribute Values
This guide explains the procedure where, once the recipient approves a pseudonymization release request, the requester can view the original information for 24 hours, after which it is automatically restored to the pseudonymized state.
Creating a Workspace
A step-by-step guide to the process of creating a new workspace on the Kolleges admin page or joining an existing workspace as an admin.
Homepage Information Settings
A step-by-step guide to setting homepage basic information (group name, brand colors, logo, membership approval method, etc.) and business (footer) information from the Kolleges homepage management menu.
Real Interns, Real Results at Blockspoon - A One-Month Record | Digital Badges
Three Blockspoon interns - a growth marketer and two Android developers - completed meaningful real-world projects in a single month and shared blockchain-issued digital badges as proof on LinkedIn.
Start effective online learning with Kolleges
Kolleges amplifies the flexibility of online learning by pairing gamification, instructor Q&A, and blockchain-verified completion certificates in one platform.
Blog Monetization Isn't Hard - All the Methods Unpacked
From AdSense to affiliate marketing to paid courses, this post unpacks every blog revenue method and shows how Kolleges helps you build a dedicated education site on top of your blog.
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