How do I Embed a Credential to my Email Signature?


Embed your Digital Open Badge into your email signature so that everyone seeing your emails has the opportunity to check out your live credential. Embedding into an email signature works best with badges instead of certificates, which can look too big and bulky at the bottom of an email. For this article, we will only refer to embedding badges.

If you have a certificate and a badge for your achievement, you can embed the badge in your email signature, and with one click, people can be sent to view the whole certificate.

Even if you have a badge to embed and no certificate, having it lead back to your badge's live credential view helps people verify its validity.


Embed the Badge
  1. Go to the credential view of the badge you would like to embed.
  2. Click the 'Share' button and then click on the 'Download Image' button.

This is your personal Badge image, which contains all of the verification information within it.



Embed into Gmail Signature
  1. Open your Gmail account in another tab and click the cog icon (Settings) at the top right-hand corner of your view. In the drop-down menu, click 'See all settings.'
  2. Scroll down to the 'Signature' section. [Create a new signature if needed.]
  3. Click on the 'Insert Image' button at the top of the signature toolbar, then on the 'Upload' tab.
  4. Select or drag the Badge Image that you downloaded from the 'Share Credential' window earlier.
  5. Once the badge image has appeared, you can click the image and resize it to small, medium, or large if you like.
  6. Optional:
    1. Go back to the tab of your credential view, and copy the 'Sharable URL' from the Share Your Credential Window.
    2. Go back to the tab with your Gmail account signature settings and Highlight the badge image and click the 'Link' tool at the top of the signature toolbar.
    3. In the box marked 'To what URL should this link go?' past the Sharable URL you just copied, then click 'OK' at the bottom right-hand corner of the window.
  7. Once you are happy with the appearance of your overall signature line, scroll to the bottom of your Gmail settings and click 'Save Changes.'

Embed into Outlook Signature
  1. Open Microsoft Outlook and click on 'New Email.'
  2. In the new message window, click on 'Signatures'.
  3. Either create a new signature or select an existing one to edit.
  4. To the far right of the signature editing toolbar, select 'Add Image' and select the image of the Badge you just downloaded.
  5. You can resize the image by selecting it and dragging the scale controls if you like.
  6. Optional:
    1. Go back to the browser tab of your credential view, and copy the 'Sharable URL'.
    2. In Outlook, highlight the badge you have just uploaded to your signature and click the 'Link' button at the far right-hand side of the toolbar.
    3. Paste the 'Sharable URL' into the 'Address' field at the bottom of the window that appears, then click 'OK.'
  7. Once you are happy with the appearance of your overall signature line, save and close the Outlook signatures window.

Other Email Clients
If you use an email client other than Gmail or Outlook, such as Yahoo, Hotmail, or Mac Mail, we recommend:
  1. Downloading the PNG of your badge using the 'Download Image' button in the credential view.
  2. Go into the signature settings of your particular email client and insert the PNG.
  3. Highlight the badge image and use your email client's 'Link' function and paste your credential's 'Sharable URL' into it. The Sharable URL is the public web address for your digital credential.
  4. Don't forget to hit save on any changes you make to your email signature.

As always, feel free to reach out to AVID Care if you have any questions.

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