CanCred Passport

Moving to CanCred Passport is Easy!

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500

If you are an Open Badge Passport user moving your badge portfolio, then you’re very welcome to make Cancred Passport your lifelong badge portfolio.

CanCred Passport is a free service with no advertising that has been serving badge earners across Canada since 2016. It has all the capabilities of other Passports, plus a great Help page, with useful tips to guide you in making an outstanding badge portfolio that you can share in social media , or directly online to build your profile and advance your career.

Create an account on CanCred Passport

If you don’t already have an account on CanCred Passport, we encourage you to apply for the Moving to CanCred Passport badge. It will be issued automatically and accepting the badge will to make your onboarding to CanCred Passport fast and easy!

Request this badge

Move your badges from other Passports

Once you have your CanCred Passport account set up, use the Import badges section on our Help page for tips on how to move all your badges from another Passport.

Build out your new badge portfolio!

Use the Help page for tips on how to build a great badge portfolio that will help you stand out, based on ALL the badges your earn from ANY platform!

Some background to this move

Starting on May 1, 2025, all badges issued from CanCred Factory by Ontario educational institutions will point to CanCred Passport as the default destination platform for accepting badges.

Meanwhile, all original badge issuing information will remain intact in member institution account registries on CanCred Factory.

TIP - auto accept badges on CanCred Passport

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Tired of accepting badges one by one?

You can now accept by default all new badges issued to you from CanCred Factory into your account on CanCred Passport with a default status of Private, Internal or Public.

Just go to your Settings at the top right to make this happen, as displayed below!

CanCred Passport now has a mobile app

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600

The CanCred Passport platform was upgraded this morning and now includes a mobile app for iOS and Android!

All the functionality of the web application now lies in the palm of your hand.

This app was developed by our partners at Open Badge Factory Solutions. It can be used to access not only CanCred Passport, but also Open Badge Passport and several other Dedicated Passports, including myHPass in the humanitarian sector. (Note: eCampusOntario Passport does not support the mobile app at this time.)

Here’s how to get started with the CanCred Passport app:

Download the “Open Badge Passport” mobile app from CanCred Passport’s web login screen or directly from Google Play or iTunes.
Install the app and select CanCred Passport from the list of Passports that appears.
Login and authorize the app.

Now take your Passport wherever you and your mobile phone go!

Platform upgrade

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500

The CanCred platform was upgraded again on June 28, with a number of exciting new community features:

News feed - news items will keep users up to date on the latest developments with the service. Switch on or off.
Instant messaging - send instant messages to your contacts and members of your spaces. Switch on or off.
QR codes- share public badges, Pages and Profiles more easily with employers
Spaces - dedicated “mini passports” for organisations and networks to build learning communities. These will start to appear as organisations build them.
MiniMaps - a tool in Spaces to build diverse learning pathways that look like subway maps. Learning pathways are already under construction..
Weekly Summary - an email containing notifications about your activity and the community, sent to your address once a week. Switch on or off.

CanCred upgrade - share badges directly to LinkedIn

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500

The CanCred platform was upgraded this morning, bringing exciting new features to help you collect and share badges.

Easier badge acceptance now includes:

the ability to share a badge URL immediately to LinkedIn and other social media without the need to register on a backpack or passport
accept on CanCred Passport or a dedicated Passport such as eCampusOntario Passport and begin to build a badge portfolio
download a PDF badge that can be shared standalone as a printed certificate or file attachment or uploaded to Passport as an online badge
a validator service to check that the badge is current and shareable
the ability to check for all the badges you have been issued from CanCred in the past, via “personal data request”

Share your badge on LinkedIn

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600

Check out this quick demonstration showing how to add a badge to your LinkedIn Profile.

Find out more on our Help page

Introduction to self-claimed badges (selfie badges)

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600

Self-claimed badges give you the possibility to get recognized for individual skills and achievements that educators and employers haven’t anticipated and are not described by existing badges.

Watch this webinar from our partner Open Badge Factory to learn how you can issue badges to yourself and to others!

View the slides

CanCred becomes IMS Certified for Open Badges v2.0

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

CanCred is pleased to announce that we have achieved official certification for Open Badges version 2.0 in all three available categories:

Issuer, for CanCred Factory
Displayer, for CanCred Passport
Host, for CanCred Passport

According to IMS Global Learning Consortium, stewards of the Open Badge standard:

“… certification for Open Badges 2.0 demands features and capabilities beyond those that are strictly required by the specification…. Gaining this certification is expected to be more difficult than simply meeting the minimum requirements for producing a valid Open Badge.”

Because CanCred is powered by the innovative code in the already-certified platforms Open Badge Factory and Open Badge Passport, this “difficult” certification comes as no surprise.

But we felt it was important to communicate clearly to the credentialing and recognition community how well CanCred supports Open Badges.

Bilingual service in a bilingual country

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

CanCred has completed the process of becoming a bilingual cloud service for all Canadians:

the CanCred website is now published in English and French.
the CanCred Factory and CanCred Passport platforms offer service in both languages.
CanCred Factory is one of the few Open Badge platforms in the world with the capability of producing multilingual badges featuring English and French. Our badges can also be simultaneously published in Cree, Ojibway, Inuktitut and many other of the languages spoken by our diverse population in Canada.

Presentation at IMS Digital Credentials Summit

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600

Don Presant, President of CanCred by Learning Agents, was proud to partner with Michel Singh, CTO, eCampusOntario on a presentation at IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Digital Credentials Summit in Tempe, Arizona. The presentation focused on collaborative approaches to issuing and recognizing badges that leverage the advantages of CanCred technology and eCampusOntario’s network of post-secondary institutions:

Rethinking Recognition with Open Badges 2.0: Endorsement and Collaborative Issuing Networks

eCampusOntario is the edtech network of excellence for Ontario’s 45 publicly funded colleges and universities. The network has been working with its member institutions and CanCred.ca, the Canadian partner of Open Badge Factory (OBF), to “rethink recognition”.

This rethink leverages some exciting features of Open Badges 2.0 implemented by OBF’s IMS certified technology, such as Alignment and Endorsement, along with other features native to OBF and CanCred, such as collaborative badge issuing. The result is an emerging badge network, where badges converge on a provincial recognition hub, the eCampusOntario Passport.

Sample slide:

Slideshare link to presentation