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Open Badges 3.0 · W3C verifiable credentials

Issue and verify digital microcredentials backed by your institution.

ZyCred lets institutions design, issue and verify digitally signed microcredentials.

Represent an institution? Institution access

Built on open standards

  • Open Badges 3.0
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials
  • did:web
  • LTI 1.3
  • OpenID4VCI

Platform

The whole microcredential lifecycle, in one place.

From the first design to public verification, with the controls an institution needs.

  • Microcredential design

    Templates with name, description, achievement criteria and artwork, organized by academic unit.

  • Manual, automatic and API issuance

    Issue to one person, from your own systems through the API, or let rules connected to Moodle and other LMS issue when criteria are met.

  • Governance and approvals

    Institution roles, academic-unit scopes and approvals with separation of duties before issuing.

  • Learning pathways

    Group microcredentials into pathways that recognize each learner's progress.

  • Verification and revocation

    Every credential is digitally signed, has a public verification page and a revocation status anyone can check.

  • Institutional reporting

    Track issuance, reach and use of credentials to support decisions.

For everyone involved

Value for whoever issues, receives and verifies.

Institutions

  • Issue with their own digital identity and verified-issuer seal.
  • Publish an institutional page with their credential catalog.
  • Connect their LMS and their own systems through the API.

Learners and professionals

  • Keep every credential together in a personal dashboard.
  • Share them on LinkedIn or with a public link.
  • Download them as PDF or store them in a digital wallet.

Employers and verifiers

  • Check a credential without creating an account.
  • See the achievement, issuer, criteria and dates.
  • Know its current status: active or revoked.

How it works

From learning to verifiable recognition.

  1. 01

    Design

    The institution defines the microcredential and its criteria.

  2. 02

    Issue

    It is awarded manually, automatically from the LMS or through the API.

  3. 03

    Share

    The holder receives it by email and takes it to their professional profile.

  4. 04

    Verify

    Anyone confirms its authenticity from a link or code.

Bring your institution's microcredentials to ZyCred.

We register your institution, verify its legal identity and enable its issuing workspace.

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