Credentialing for further education.
Parchment Digital Badges gives FE colleges a simple, scalable way to verify and showcase learner skills. Secure, stackable digital credentials help you show what learners can actually do, align with Skills England and LSIP priorities, and speak the language employers understand.
Talking about skills is easy. Proving them is harder.
Employers across the UK are asking sharper questions about what learners can do and not just which course they completed. At the same time, FE colleges are expanding apprenticeships, T Levels, adult learning, and continuing professional development (CPD), often without a single way to track and verify skills across programmes.
Parchment Digitary Services, integrated with Canvas, helps you close that gap. Skills, evidence, and credentials live in one connected experience, so colleges can show impact and learners can show proof.
Turn learning into trusted, employer-ready skills
Short courses, micro-credentials, and work-based learning only deliver value when others can see what they represent. With Parchment Digital Badges, every credential tells a clear story about the skills behind it: how they were taught, assessed, and applied in real contexts.
Top features:
- Skills-aligned badges for apprenticeships, T Levels, CPD, and adult learning
- Badge metadata that captures level, context, and assessment criteria
- Evidence pulled from Canvas LMS and Canvas Portfolio showing exactly how skills were demonstrated
- Automatic issuing when learners meet clearly defined outcomes, reducing manual admin
Show learners how small wins stack into big futures
Learners rarely move in a straight line. They switch programmes, return to learn new skills, and blend work with study. Parchment Digital Badges allows you design stackable pathways where each badge is a stepping stone; this lets learners see how today’s learning leads to tomorrow’s role, qualification, or progression route.
Top features:
- Create pathways that span short courses, vocational programmes, apprenticeships, and adult reskilling.
- Use Skills Hub to align pathways with Skills England priorities and local skills improvement plans.
- Give learners a clear visual of what they’ve achieved and what comes next.
- Surface pathway progress inside Canvas, keeping motivation and momentum high.
Not just digital badges—your FE skills infrastructure
Digital badges alone aren’t enough. By integrating directly with Canvas, Parchment Digital Badges connects skills, pathways, and evidence inside the ecosystem where learning already happens.
Colleges can design skills frameworks, align badges to modules and assessments, and build stackable pathways that span programmes, and years. Learners can see exactly how today’s course contributes to tomorrow’s progression. And staff manage everything from one place.
Top Features
Create a shared menu of skills across your college or group. Align national skills priorities and employer expectations, such as Skills England and LSIPs.
Design flexible, stackable routes that connect modules, micro-credentials, and qualifications, so learners can see their next step at every stage.
Capture evidence of learning from both classroom-first environments and work-first apprenticeships, and represent it with relevant badges that link to their respective skills.
Canvas
Open, adaptable, user friendly, and future ready—Canvas is North America's most-loved learning management system.
Canvas is built for:
- efficient, effective teaching
- equitable, accessible learning
- flexible, scalable integration
- community-powered innovation
Parchment
Trusted, secure, and learner-centered, Parchment makes it easy to send, receive, and verify academic credentials anytime, anywhere.
With Parchment you can:
- Streamline transcript and credential delivery
- Empower learners with lifelong records
- Support mobility across schools, states, and careers
- Deliver digital badging and credentialing
Ready for the next step in credentialing?
Ready for the next step in credentialing?
If you’re looking to evidence skills more clearly, strengthen employer partnerships, and simplify how you manage micro-credentials, we’re here to help. Let’s explore how Parchment Digital Badges and Canvas can support your further education strategy.