Instructure
Setting potential in motion
Parchment Digital Badges is the credentialing solution brand in Instructure’s product portfolio.
Parchment provides a comprehensive digital credentialing ecosystem that helps learners collect, manage and share achievements across education and employment. Its services include digital badges, certificates, transcripts, diplomas, Comprehensive Learner Records (CLRs) and credential verification, supporting trusted and portable recognition throughout a learner's journey.
Through stackable credentials and learner-owned records, Parchment helps organisations make skills, knowledge and achievements more visible. As part of one of the world's largest credential exchange networks, Parchment connects learning achievements to further study, career development and employment opportunities, helping turn credentials into meaningful pathways for lifelong learning and workforce success.
Find out more: Parchment Digital Badges
Activity: Earn a badge and explore skills
Discover how skills-rich digital credentials can connect learning to employment opportunities. Claim a digital badge and explore the real-time skills intelligence embedded within it, including in-demand skills, hiring companies, job titles and live job postings across multiple regions. Experience how a well-designed credential can act as a gateway from recognition to opportunity.
A Badge Sandpit “Skills to Job Explorer” badge demonstrates how embedded skills intelligence can instantly link verified skills to real job opportunities in real time.
As part of the challenge you will also set up a free account with Parchment Digital Badges to claim and view your credential.
Activity Snapshot
Estimated Time: 10 minutes
What you'll do: Claim a digital credential and explore how embedded skills intelligence can connect you directly to real job opportunities.
Who's It For?: Anyone interested in digital credentials, skills recognition, employability and career pathways.
What You'll Need: An internet connection, web browser and email address.
What You'll Get: A Skills to Job Explorer badge, a free Parchment Digital Badges account, and insights into live job opportunities linked to credentialed skills.
Step by step instructions
Step 2. Explore the skills and jobs
Open your badge in Parchment and and click on the skills tags to review the embedded skills intelligence
Explore skills trends for specific regions (Choose from US, UK and Canada in the Current Country dropdown - lefthand side near top of page)
Top companies hiring for the selected skill
Top job titles requiring that skill
Key locations hiring for that skill
Explore live job postings, Click through to see real, current job postings linked to the skill inside your badge.
Apply for a job in one click, Experience how embedded skills intelligence can connect you directly to real employment opportunities.
Step 1. Claim your Sandpit badge
Click here to Claim the Skills to Job Explorer badge
or Scan the QR code
Enter your email address and you will be sent a verification code
Check your email and follow the link to claim your Badge Sandpit credential.
Follow the onscreen instructions to set up your Parchment Digital Badges “backpack” (your personal credential wallet) to store the badge online.
Need Support?
If you have questions, encounter technical issues, or would like help completing an activity, we're here to help.
Email us at badgesandpit@lifelonglearningpractice.com and we'll do our best to assist you or connect you with the activity provider.
Share Your Achievement
Completed the activity? We'd love to see what you discovered.
Share your badge, skills profile, wallet, insights or reflections on LinkedIn and help others explore the world of digital credentials and skills recognition.
Use #BadgeSandpit in your post so the community can follow your journey and discover new ideas, tools and opportunities.
