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Oct 14, 2025

CanCred badges are now Open Badges 3.0

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Jul 23, 2025

Edalex integrates CanCred to Credentialate to make skills more visible

CanCred by Learning Agents, a leading Canadian cloud service connecting skills performance and careers through the recognition power of digital credentials, announced today that Edalex has connected CanCred Factory to its Credentialate skills data “plumbing” platform, offering organizations a robust and flexible solution for issuing Open Badges to make skills more visible, supported by authentic evidence.

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May 27, 2025

Learning Agents and SkillsAware announce strategic partnership to revolutionize skills recognition in Canada

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May 20, 2025

PDF certificates can now be downloaded by badge issuers for multiple purposes.

PDF badges are an increasingly popular feature of CanCred. Until now, they were only available to badge recipients, i.e., the “owners” of the credentials. But starting today, badge issuers can download them for purposes such as archiving credentials or printing high-quality hard copies for award ceremonies.

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May 8, 2025

Learning Agents announces edtech partnership with global skills powerhouse Edalex

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Sep 2, 2023

Bulk endorsement of badges

CanCred has now introduced a Bulk badge Endorsement feature, available at the (top) Pro level.

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Jun 14, 2023

New enhancements for badge applications

Badge applications are a superpower for CanCred Factory: an authentic way to earn a badge based the submission of direct evidence.

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Mar 21, 2023

Customize your PDF badges!

CanCred Factory subscribers can now customize the look and feel of their PDF badges, right down to each individual badge! Using a combination of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a templating language called Mustache, users can now style text and custom graphics to meet specific needs, combining static and dynamic content to make a single page certificate, a full version with all the badge metadata, or a combination of single page certificate AND the full metadata! Regardless, you can include a QR code and link that will take the viewer straight to the hosted credential for more details and verification.

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Mar 19, 2023

New feature - Send confirmation message to badge applicants

In addition to the default live confirmation that an applicant sees when a badge application has been sent, issuing organisations now have the option of attaching a confirmation message to their badge applications. Your badge applicants can immediately receive an email message confirming receipt of the application. This message includes a link to a read-only version of the badge application for their reference.

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Feb 7, 2023

HINT - A better way to share badges to LinkedIn

You can improve the user experience for your learners sharing badges and micro-credentials to LinkedIn by adding the 6-9 digit code that’s embedded in the admin’s URL for your company page on LinkedIn company page. This code can only be seen by the person with editing rights to the page:

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Feb 6, 2023

CanCred email service interruption

CanCred Factory experienced an interruption of AWS email services from 4:43 pm ET on 27 January to 11:39 pm ET on 1 February.

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Dec 20, 2022

CanCred Passport now has a mobile app

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

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Sep 22, 2021

Agile CanCred client Red River College is featured in Macleans Magazine

This college created a vaccination administration course in just two weeks

Red River College exemplified the pivotal role colleges have played in the pandemic response, training people in highly specific tasks for which there was overwhelming demand

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Jul 14, 2021

CanCred s'associe à Ibbaka pour lancer la plateforme d'alignement GoFrameworks

VOIR LE COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE SUR PRWEB

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Jul 13, 2021

CanCred upgrade - easier badge acceptance, badge reissue/revalidation, blockchain

The CanCred platform was upgraded this morning, bringing exciting new features for your micro-credentialing and badging initiatives.

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May 13, 2021

NEW DATE - June 1 webinar - Blockchain, other new features

Join us with our partners from Open Badge Factory for an international OBF Academy webinar.

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Apr 28, 2021

Blockchain and other new features coming to CanCred

Join us with our partners from Open Badge Factory for an international OBF Academy webinar.

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Mar 9, 2021

Commonwealth of Learning micro-credential webinars

CanCred’s Don Presant led a two-part series of professional development workshops to help demystify micro-credentials for emergent economies in The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) community.

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Mar 2, 2021

New framework alignment hub for Factory

CanCred’s Don Presant introduces an exciting new way to align micro-credentials and informal badges to open frameworks on CanCred Factory and Open Badge Factory, similar to how Pro Factory subscribers can now align badges to ESCO, the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations.

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Oct 5, 2020

Get up to speed with new video tutorials

CanCred has produced a series of video tutorials to help new and current users get the most out of our flexible platform.

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Sep 1, 2020

CanCred's free trial offer for #ONPSE

CanCred is offering a time-limited opportunity to the 30 of the 45 publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Ontario who are not yet CanCred clients:

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Nov 1, 2019

Alternative formats will make CanCred badges more portable and flexible!

Adapted from OpenBadgeFactory.com

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Aug 29, 2019

External Endorsement comes to CanCred

CanCred has achieved another milestone in its exciting roadmap: CanCred Factory now supports external endorsement, following the latest upgrade.

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Mar 19, 2019

CanCred becomes IMS Certified for Open Badges v2.0

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

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Mar 14, 2019

Bilingual service in a bilingual country

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

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Feb 6, 2019

Presentation at IMS Digital Credentials Summit

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:

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Jan 25, 2019

CanCred Factory Upgrade - Pro Level Features

CanCred Factory was upgraded yesterday to create a new organization subscription level: Pro.

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Apr 23, 2017

CanCred Factory Upgrade - Endorsement and Alignments

CanCred Factory was upgraded this morning to add two exciting new features that implement version 2 of the Open Badges standard.

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Mar 6, 2017

New feature in CanCred Passport - Advertise Badge Opportunities

CanCred Passport has added an exciting new feature! Badge issuing organizations in CanCred Factory can now advertise their badges in Passport’s Gallery section.

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Feb 27, 2017

Waterloo University - Open Badges Keynote Kicks Off Educational Technologies Week

On February 27, Don Presant of Learning Agents, providers of the CanCred.ca Open Badges service, delivered a keynote presentation entitled Recognizing Knowledge & Skills in a Digital Age.

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Feb 20, 2017

CanCred.ca hosts BC Open Badges Forum with KPU

On February 17, CanCred.ca hosted a innovative cross-sectoral workforce design lab in partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Teaching and Learning Commons.

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Sep 14, 2015

Open Badges – Moving from Further Professional Training to Self-directed Competency Development

Open Badge Factory Academy was launched with this webinar. Eric Rousselle from Discndum welcomed everyone and said a few words about the Academy and its purpose. Omnia’s Esko Lius and Pete Stockley presented a very interesting and successful use case, which sparked a good conversation between the participants.

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This college created a vaccination administration course in just two weeks