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The Badge Sandpit brings together hands-on activities from across the digital credentials ecosystem. Whether you want to earn a badge, build a skills profile, explore a digital wallet, or discover new approaches to recognising learning and capability, there is something here to explore.
Activities are grouped by theme to help you find a starting point. You may notice that some providers appear in more than one category. This reflects the interconnected nature of the ecosystem. A single platform may support skills discovery, digital credentials, wallets, pathways, or recognition in different ways.
Choose an activity, follow the trail, and start exploring.
New to digital credentials? Start with Earn and Claim Digital Badges or Build a Skills Profile.
Earn and Claim Digital Badges
Experience earning, claiming, storing and sharing digital badges and credentials. Explore how credentials are awarded, what information they contain, and how they can be used to showcase learning and achievement.
Create a verifiable skills claim. Describe a skill, add evidence, ask for endorsements. Then publish and share your skills.
From Skills to Jobs in 1 click. Claim the badge and
use the embedded skills to link to skills trends,
and live job postings.
Take the ORCA Trust challenge and build a network of mutual recognition
Digital Credentials Fundamentals
Do the microlearning, complete the quiz, and earn your fundamentals badge.
Claim an Open Badges 3.0 credential and receive a Learner Credential Wallet badge that you can share.
Build a Skills Profile
Discover, document and showcase your skills, capabilities and achievements. Explore different approaches to creating skills profiles that help make learning, experience and potential more visible.
Explore Digital Wallets
Learn how digital wallets help individuals own, manage and share their credentials. Experience how wallets support portability, learner ownership and the secure sharing of achievements.
Explore Digital Wallets
Learn how digital wallets help individuals own, manage and share their credentials. Experience how wallets support portability, learner ownership and the secure sharing of achievements.
Explore Digital Wallets
Learn how digital wallets help individuals own, manage and share their credentials. Experience how wallets support portability, learner ownership and the secure sharing of achievements.
Looking for more
The digital credentials ecosystem is constantly evolving, and new providers, tools and activities are added to the Badge Sandpit throughout the year.
Continue Learning
Want to deepen your understanding of digital credentials, skills, recognition and lifelong learning?
Join as a Provider
Are you a provider of digital credentials, skills technologies, wallets, learning records, recognition tools or related services?
Share an activity, showcase your platform, and help people explore the ecosystem through hands-on experiences.
Become a Provider →