Celebrate Success, Digitally!

I found this awesome tool, called Credly, that will allow you to create badges for students, teachers, administrators, and more!  It can be used for anything!  Anyone who is deserving of an achievement can receive a badge.  You can create one for showing good character, act of kindness, conquering a skill, and much more!  The image shown above are badges I created for staff and students at my school.

Simply create a free account and start creating your customized digital badge.  It's that easy!

Credly will allow you to customize a badge by selecting a shape for the badge, an image or upload your own, changing the text color, the border and fill color, and adding a special effect to the border.  

There are 3 easy steps:

1. create your free account
2. create your badge and give it a descriptive name
3. give the badge to the person by email

The recipient will check their email for the notification.  A sample is shown below.

The recipient will  have the option to save it or share their achievement via social media.  

The tool also provides you with an option to upload a .csv file with email addresses for bulk notifications.

I am truly impressed with the ease and quickness of creating a badge.  I would highly recommend using this tool to celebrate success!

Google Apps Update Alert - Avatar Changes

Change to default avatar for Google account owners Posted: 30 Sep 2015 01:41 PM PDT Google account owners with Google+ enabled have the option to add a photo to their account profile to signify when they are logged in and help make it clear which account they are using. To extend these benefits to those account owners who haven’t added a photo to their account, we’ll be replacing the default Google account avatar with a custom avatar showing the account owner’s first or last initial (or digraph, where applicable), depending on the structure of their name. In some cases where initials are not available, a color alone will be used. Starting this week, Google Apps users* with Google+ enabled who haven’t set an account photo will see this change in the Google Bar. The change will be gradually reflected across all Google products over the coming months. *Note: Users with initials using scripts other than Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean will see this change later this year. Launch Details Release track:   Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release Rollout pace:  Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility) Impact: All end users Action: Change management suggested/FYI Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted Launch release calendar Launch detail categories Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates