Context
Santa Barbara City College's Educational Programs–Business department launched industry-endorsed, not-for-credit digital badges to help students get entry-level jobs or up-skill, issued through Pearson Acclaim.
Engagement
Acclaim verifies badges but does not promote them. We were asked to design a regional badge catalogue portal for the South Central Coast consortium that would market each badge, and the courses behind it, to students, employers, and other colleges.
What we delivered
A fixed-bid design covering college and badge home pages, badge criteria and course mappings, tag-based search, a self-service course-maintenance screen for each college, a secure curriculum resource library, and reusable components integrating the Pearson Acclaim API for badge definitions, issuer profiles, and award counts — plus the badge artwork set of more than fifty badges.
Outcome
The catalogue was specified on a fixed budget with delivery scheduled for July 2015, and the badge artwork set was produced — giving the consortium a single place to present credentials that employers had endorsed.