HIGHER EDUCATION

Elevate your institution and student experience

Create and issue branded digital certificates and badges that improve student engagement and sharing, enhance your institution’s reputation, and drive enrollment.

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“I've spent 45 years in information technology, so I mean it when I say Accredible is highly sophisticated. It’s such high-quality software — that's really what made the difference for us. You can’t miss with it.”

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Executive Director of the Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials, Syracuse University

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Scale your program and brand reputation

Recognize and empower students

Ensuring students can connect earned credentials to career outcomes has become paramount.

With Accredible, you can design and issue verifiable digital badges and certificates that showcase acquired skills, earning criteria, and evidence of learning — ensuring students can effectively represent their achievements. Elevate your brand with unmatched white-labeling — from custom URLs to emails and credentials.

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Drive program enrollment

Turn your students into brand ambassadors. With One-Click Sharing to 40+ social platforms and embedding options for LinkedIn, websites, and emails, students can easily celebrate their achievements — increasing program awareness and referrals.

Boost brand visibility and course enrollment by advertising your credentials to a verified pool of active learners with Recommendations.

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Enhance student engagement

Create visual learning journeys with milestone credentials that remove learner guesswork and incentivize continued learning with Pathways.

Enhance the value of your credentials with Job Market Insights tied directly to the skills and learning outcomes your program offers. Support learners’ mobility with verifiable credential wallets that help communicate the totality of their skills and abilities.

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Analyze & optimize performance

Get visibility into every aspect of your program with analytics and visuals that go beyond the number of credentials issued. Track key metrics like email and credential engagement, social media shares, program referrals, learning pathway completions and dropoffs, and more. 

You’ll always have the right insights to refine strategies, enhance impact, and unlock your program’s potential.

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Connect your favorite tools

Accredible seamlessly integrates with your existing systems—from LMS, CMS, and publishing tools—to streamline issuing credentials without disrupting your workflows.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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How is Accredible different from issuing credentials through our LMS?

Your LMS does one thing well: delivering and tracking learning. But LMS-native certificates typically can't be instantly verified by a third party, carry limited skills metadata, offer minimal post-issuance analytics, and aren't built for sharing beyond your internal ecosystem. When your institution changes LMS platforms, those credentials often don't travel with students.

Accredible sits downstream of your LMS, not in place of it. Your learning platform stays exactly where it is while Accredible handles credential design, automated issuance, sharing to 40+ platforms, and analytics that track what happens after a student earns a badge or certificate. Pathways connect individual credentials into a progression students can follow from enrollment through to career, and credentials stay with learners permanently, regardless of which LMS your institution runs in five years.

Want the full breakdown? Read our comparison of LMS badges vs. digital credentialing platforms →

Will students see Accredible’s branding on their credential?

All Accredible plans include branding controls so your institution's identity is front and center in the credential experience. The level of control increases by plan: Connect includes logo, colors, and primary credential page branding; Growth adds a fully custom domain, complete CSS control, and full white-labeling across emails, credential pages, and learner directories, with no Accredible branding in the experience at all.

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Can students share credentials beyond LinkedIn?

Yes. One-Click sharing supports 40+ platforms, including LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, WhatsApp, and email. No account creation required: students accept and share in a single click.

Sharing matters beyond recognition. Every share is a referral back to your program, and Accredible’s analytics show you which credentials are driving traffic and where.

What are Pathways, and do we need them?

Pathways are visual learning journeys that connect individual credentials into a structured progression, from course completion through to certificate or degree. They show students exactly what they’ve earned, what’s available next, and how it connects to their career goals.

You don’t need Pathways to start issuing credentials. But if learner retention and multi-credential completion are goals for your program, they’re worth building early. Pathways are available on Connect plans (up to three) and unlimited on Growth.

How do we increase the number of students who actually engage with their credential?

Most programs send one notification email when a credential is issued and move on. For students who don’t open it immediately, that’s usually the end of the interaction.

Accredible’s Email Campaigns let you build automated sequences that trigger at the right moments: a congratulations email on issuance, a follow-up for students who haven’t opened their credential within a week, a sharing reminder for students who opened but didn’t share, and a reenrollment prompt for students who are ready for their next course. Every campaign is tracked so you can see open rates, click-throughs, and the downstream impact on shares and program referrals.

What security and compliance standards does Accredible meet?

Accredible is GDPR compliant across all plans, with SOC 2 reports available on request regardless of plan level. SAML SSO and MFA are included on Growth. Custom DPAs with EU Standard Contractual Clauses are available for organizations with international earner populations, and you can choose US or EU data hosting at setup.

For detailed documentation to support a vendor security review, everything your IT or legal team needs is at accredible.com/trust-center.

How long does it take to get live?

Most institutions are issuing credentials within weeks of signing. Your dedicated Implementation Manager handles onboarding and configures your LMS integration. You’re not starting from scratch, and you’re not figuring it out alone. 

For more complex rollouts, including multi-college implementations, custom integrations, or programs that need credential framework design, Accredible’s Professional Services team can scope a structured launch plan built around your timeline and program goals.

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Schedule a demo and discover how Accredible can help you attract and reward students, visualize learning journeys, and grow your program.

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