v1.7.2 – Canvas Integration & Customizing your Recipient Experience
January 5, 2017
Great news from the Accredible Team!
We have a new Canvas LMS integration which you can use to automatically sync course data and generate credentials: https://www.eduappcenter.com/apps/652
In addition, you can now customize your recipient experience:
- Change which features are visible to people viewing your certificates and badges.
- Disable features that you don’t want recipients to use.
Here’s our video walking you through how to update the recipient experience: https://youtu.be/1LwYK_CdA00
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v1.8 – Portrait Certificates and International Paper Sizes
January 11, 2017
More news from the Accredible Product Team!
We’ve got another update for your digital credentials! Now you can make your certificates portrait in orientation and select different paper sizes. We’ve added some templates to help you get started. If you previously had a US Letter size template and always wanted an A4 template, you can finally make the switch, and the update should take no time at all.
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v1.10 – Guides
February 8, 2017
We’re excited to announce that Accredible is easier to learn!
We’ve added six walkthrough guides and a new help video to teach you how to get started: creating certificates, making a certificate design, branding an email, customizing your social media settings and using badges. You can access the guides at any time on your dashboard https://dashboard.accredible.com/issuer/dashboard/
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v1.11 – Attributes
March 7, 2017
Custom Attributes now have been separated from Certificate Designs. This means that getting data into Accredible and managing your data is much easier.
Previously the Certificate Design dictated the fields available when creating Credentials – So the [attributes] you added to a Certificate Design would then show when creating credentials.
Now all Custom Attributes are available throughout the platform. Regardless of Certificate Design, Group etc. This is much closer to a standard “mail-merge” feature.
You can manage your Custom Attributes on the settings page. For example, you may add the following Attributes to your account:
* Partner Name – text
* Partner Logo – image
* Practical Exam Date – date
These new custom attributes will now be available to you whenever you add Credentials, regardless of the group. They are also available on the Certificate Design in an easy selection interface.
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v1.14 – Email Customization and White Labelling
April 25, 2017
Take control of your credential communication with our new email editor.
Our visual email editor lets you:
- White label all emails sent to certificate and badge recipients.
- Customize the content of any email.
- Customize the call to actions in your email.
- Specify a particular email template for any course or achievement.
- Use an email template for multiple groups with just one click.
- Localize email templates.
We’ve also taken steps to improve email deliverability and have provided more consistent, visually appealing email templates.
Want to learn how to use the new email editor? Click here.
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v1.14.1 – Japanese Locale
May 17, 2017
We’re excited to announce support for Japanese recipients!
Now we support credential delivery to recipients in English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
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v1.15 – Security Hardening
May 25, 2017
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks making sure our security is bulletproof!
Alongside improving our policies we’ve deprecated some SSL cyphers that drop support for older browsers but ensure that we’re better protected.
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v1.17 – Blockchain Credentials
June 5, 2017
We’re excited to announce you can now securely issue your credentials with our pioneering Blockchain technology.
When this option is enabled, a permanent record of your credentials is cryptographically sealed into the blockchain. What does this mean? Third parties viewing those credentials can be absolutely certain a record has not been altered, providing an ironclad defense against fraud.
It’s easy to use and is included in your current pricing – it doesn’t incur any additional cost.
What is the Blockchain?
The Blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value. Accredible uses the Bitcoin Blockchain to store an immutable record of credentials. Anything that we write to the Blockchain can’t be altered in the future by any party.
How does the Blockchain prevent fraud?
Once we’ve recorded a credential on the Blockchain it cannot be altered, faked, or spoofed. If someone attempts to create a credential that looks like your credentials it won’t verify against the Blockchain record.
Learn more about Blockchain Credentials and see how easy they are to create. View a Blockchain example certificate.
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v1.18 – Improvements
June 15, 2017
We’re always working hard to improve our service and make creation, management and delivery of certificates, badges and Blockchain credentials as easy as possible.
A regular part of our work is to spend time fixing small bugs, making improvements and adding small features. In this update we’ve made many such improvements including:
- You can set a groups credentials to be private by default.
- You can prevent automatic acceptance of typo name changes.
- We’ve added a social media button generator to the visual email editor.
- We’ve updated the appearance of credentials when shared on twitter to be more attractive and flexible.
- You’re now able to rotate your API keys.
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v1.20 – Team Member Permissions
July 12, 2017
To keep up with compliance, prevent mistakes and get the help you need it’s important to have the right team member permissions set up for your colleagues.
We’ve made it easier and simpler to add team members and control what they’re able to do with your credentials.
Now you can:
- Select which groups a team member has access to.
- Restrict a colleague’s access to billing, designs, analytics, email, etc.
- Set team members to ‘view only’ mode.
We’ve also added the ability to log in to more than one organization, enabling you to manage more than one brand and keep different departments’ credentials separate.
Get help understanding and using the new permissions system.
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Credential Layout Improvements
August 23, 2017
We’re always striving to make sure that our certificates, badges and blockchain credentials are as easy to understand as possible and that our user interfaces communicate in a simple and effective manner.
Our latest update brings improvements to these layouts:
- Your branding is clearer on the credential.
- It’s easier to see who the recipient of a credential and who the issuer of a credential is.
- The sidebar has been redesigned to better communicate the actions a recipient should take.
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Search Attributes
August 28, 2017
With Accredible it’s easy to provide all the data you need to display on a certificate, badge or blockchain credential.
With our latest update it’s easier than ever to search and find what you’re looking for. Our credential search:
- Enables you to view which credentials have been made public or private by your students.
- Let’s you choose which custom attribute you’d like to search within.
- Still makes it easy to quickly locate recipients.
This update makes it easier to work with your any custom data you provide.
Read our help article on searching for more information.
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Infrastructure Update
November 12, 2017
We’re always working hard to ensure that our service is a secure and performant as possible.
In the past three months we’ve released over 100 updates to our product.
Most of our upgrades are like changing tires on a moving car: we rarely pull over to stop, because your credentials, your alumni tracking, and shares never stop. But on Sunday 12th November we performed an upgrade more like swapping out our engine (and adding in 4 turbochargers, plus a larger trunk). This update provides enhanced security and performance.
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Measure Marketing Value
November 16, 2017
We've updated our analytics reporting to bring you more value.
Updated Analytics Reporting
Digital credentials already offer more marketing value than traditional, paper based certificates, but with our latest update you can easily quantify and review the value you’ve received from issuing online.
Accredible is now able to show you the number of views your credentials are getting, how many clickthroughs to your website are generated, and what dollar value that is giving you – essentially for free!
Easier Reporting & Clearer Value
- Options to export analytics reports for the last week, month, year, or all time, it’s easier to gauge your marketing impact over time.
- See how many clicks your website has gained from your certificates and badges.
- Estimate how much these clicks would have cost via paid marketing channels.
- View the marketing value of your certificates and badges for all time.
To view the marketing value for your organization visit: the analytics summary page
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Credential & Wallet Redesign
December 6, 2017
Your Certificates & Badges just got better!
The Credential view, wallet view and user settings, have all been restyled and harmonized to provide a clearer, easier to use experience. You can view an example digital credential here.
- Credential and wallet have a recipient header that shows an avatar and the name of the recipient.
- The experience is fully responsive working from mobile phone up to 4K screen sizes.
- Our responsive menu is easier to use, smaller and less impactful.
- The wallet view can be viewed by issuer or year of issue.
- Transcripts are easier to print.
Over the coming months we’ll continue work on improving the experience for your customers.
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More Certificate Design Templates
January 18, 2018
We’re always adding new designs and resources to make sure that designing, creating, issuing and delivering certificates and badges is as easy as possible.
Signup to use and customize these templates.
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Public Wallets
February 19, 2018
Recipients of certificates and badges can now showcase their learning using our public view of their profile.
We’ll be adding more functionality to this in the future so that it’s easier to collect badges, certificates and blockchain credentials.
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Branded Issuer Pages
April 5, 2018
We’re always working to improve your brand exposure and referrals.
Our latest update creates a page for each of the brands you have in Accredible where we provide links to your social and web profiles alongside your achievements.
Take a look at our example issuer page.
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Easier Workflow: Default Group Settings
April 26, 2018
We are constantly improving the Accredible platform to ease your workflow. Today we’re excited to announce our latest feature: Default Group Settings.
Head over to Groups and click Default Group Settings to set the defaults you’d like for any new Groups that are created, including:
- Language
- Credential privacy
- Brand
- Email options and Templates
- and more!
Now, when creating a New Group, all these settings are already in place!
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Copy Group & Default Designs
May 7, 2018
We are still improving the Accredible platform to ease your workflow.
You can now:
- Clone a Group to save time setting up a new badge or certificate.
- Set a default design. Setting a default certificate or badge design means that you can add new Groups via Canvas, Moodle, Brightspace or your own integration and start delivering credentials with no setup.
Visit Groups to try out the clone feature and Default Group Settings to choose a default certificate and badge design for newly created Groups.
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Customize Your Achievement List
May 30, 2018
We’ve made it easy to customize the appearance of your brand listing page.
You’re now able to:
- Upload a banner image.
- Write an organization description.
- Add your logo.
- Choose which certificates and badges are displayed.
- Include links to your website and social profiles.
Here’s an example brand listing page: https://www.credential.net/issuer/3044/brand/2770
Head over to Branding Settings to customize yours: https://dashboard.accredible.com/issuer/dashboard/settings/branding
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Better Badges & Certificates
June 12, 2018
We’ve improved the experience of your certificate & badge recipients.
– It’s now easier (and more attractive) for your recipients to share their collection of credentials. If you’re issuing more than one certificate or badge to the same person, they can now easily share a glance-able page with all of their achievements.
– A recipient of a credential can now set a password for return visits for easier login. Recipients of certificates and badges are still automatically logged in to the credential and don’t get prompted to create a password. They will only see the option in the dropdown from their account name. This makes re-logging in much smoother (and equally secure option) for many recipients who have found the security-code process difficult in the past.
– We now indicate to certificate and badge viewers that they can ‘Verify a Credential’. We want your recipients to benefit from increased trust in their credentials.
– We’ve updated the display of the credential page to put more emphasis on the requirements and status of a credential.
– Sharing is easier. We’ve reworked the actions on the credential view to ensure that the key options are easier to access.
– Certificates & Badges load much faster and have a reduced file size.
– We now support the French language. We’re always adding new languages.
Take a look at our badge example: https://www.credential.net/badge111
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Service Status Page
June 28, 2018
We’ve created http://status.accredible.com so that you can easily view our real time platform status and find out about past incidents.
Using this new website you can:
- Subscribe to receive email notifications whenever an incident happens.
- View the current system status.
- Learn about the details of past incidents.
- Share it with your students so they can see incidents resolved in real-time.
Visit http://status.accredible.com to subscribe for incident notifications.
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Department Usage
July 24, 2018
View the usage of Accredible across your different departments.
Visit Admin Usage in the dashboard to see:
- Certificate & Badge issuance over time.
- Email activity per department.
- Team member sign ins.
As always we’d love to hear if you have any feedback! If you’d like to enable Departments for your account then please reach out to support@accredible.com.
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New Audit Feature
August 30, 2018
Never worry about losing your certificate & badge information again!
We’re excited to release our new Audit feature which lets you track and view all the changes to your data.
Visit Audit in the dashboard to:
- View data has that been changed in your account.
- See which team member created, updated or removed data.
- Recover mistakenly deleted data.
The Audit feature is available on all accounts whilst it’s in Beta!
As always we’d love to hear if you have any feedback! Please reach out to support@accredible.com and let us know your thoughts.
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New Language Support
November 9, 2018
We’re very excited to announce further localization of Accredible certificates, badges & blockchain credentials.
We’ve added support for: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese (TW) and Turkish. We already had support for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
Next on our localization list is the addition of Arabic, Hebrew and Malay.
If you’d like to request support for a new language then please just let us know via support@accredible.com.
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Our Favorite Five New Features for November 2018
November 21, 2018
We’ve added a lot of new features and functionality to Accredible in our latest release. Here are our top five!
1. New Credential Page Layout
The new credential page is cleaner and easier to read:
We’ve introduced screen areas for new information to be added, such as other courses. You can also provide your own custom call to action and link, as shown middle right below:
2. Credential Privacy Indicator
Sometimes its the little things that make the biggest difference, and this much asked for feature will allow issuers to see the privacy status of their issued credentials, in the credentials list.
3. Contract Details View
Now you can see detailed information on your subscriptions and your entitlements, including your monthly cost, any adjustments, next month’s charges, and your balance.
4.Kryterion Webassessor Integration
Kryterion Webassessor is a leading testing platform used by some of the biggest names in education and technology.
We’ve built an integration to deliver world-leading certificates, badges and blockchain credentials from their platform. Automatically issue credentials for successful test takers and enable automated lifecycle management to handle recertification.
If you’d like to know more about the integration please contact us at support@accredible.com.
5. Additional Language Support
We’ve added support for: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese (TW) and Turkish. We already had support for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.
Next on our localization list is the addition of Arabic, Hebrew and Malay.
If you’d like to request support for a new language then please just let us know via support@accredible.com.
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Certificate and Badge Embed
December 22, 2018
It’s never been easier for recipients to embed your certificates and badges in their emails, websites and social media profiles!
Our new embed function guides recipients through the process of adding your certificate or badge. Embedded badges and certificates are now stateful. If you delete or expire the credential we make sure that the embedded image is updated.
Learn more about embedding credentials into email signatures, and embedding credential images to a webpage.
