Release Timing: Generally Available end of April as a Feature Option
Regional Availability: NORAM/LATAM/EMEA/APAC/Global
Customer Type: Higher Education, K12, Partner/Business & Government
Available with: Parchment Digital Badges
Key Takeaway: Until now, many organizations could issue digital badges but had limited insight into what happened next—whether learners accepted them, shared them, or whether employers and peers engaged with them. Without that visibility, it was difficult to evaluate program effectiveness, improve outcomes, or clearly demonstrate impact to stakeholders.
With post-award badge analytics, Parchment Digital Badges delivers a more complete analytics experience, from issuance to impact. This enables organizations to move beyond simply issuing badges to understanding and improving badge performance. By providing clear visibility into engagement and external reach, teams can better assess program success, optimize badge strategies, and more effectively report on outcomes.
Users can now:
- Track badge acceptance, sharing, and views in one place
- Measure performance using standardized Learner Engagement and External Impact metrics
- Identify top-performing badges across programs
- Filter data by organization, issuer, or badge class
- Export analytics via API or directly from the platform
- Evaluate how badge structure and placement drive engagement and external impact
- Track shifting engagement patterns across the entire credential lifecycle
Available in the new Analytics workspace, this release establishes analytics as a core capability for program evaluation, reporting, and continuous improvement, not just badge distribution.
Administrative Highlights:
- Enablement – Feature Option / No enablement needed
- Default State – On by default / no enablement needed
- Configuration Availability – N/A
- API or LTI impact – New APIs introduced, LTI is not impacted
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