General

Open Badge Passport, or OBP, is a service that you can use to receive your Open Badges, publish them into the internet or share them with the Passport’s user community. OBP is also a place where you can easily build portfolio pages to showcase your learning and tell about your achievements. In the Gallery you will be able to see different badges that have been earned and the pages that have been built by the OBP community.

My account settings

In My account settings you can change your current password, change the language of the user interface or edit other information.

In E-mail addresses section you can add additional email addresses to your account. If you have previously used Mozilla Backpack, it is advised that you add here the email address you have used for Backpack. This way you can import your Open Badges to the service. We also recommend you to add all email addresses you use to your account, because you might not always know what address the issuer will use to issue you an Open Badge. 

In Facebook section you can connect your account to your Facebook username.

In LinkedInsection you can connect your account to your LinkedIn username.

Profile

You can create a profile page that is visible to other users for example when you share Open Badges and pages to the Gallery.

To edit the profile: My account – My profile – Edit profile

You can add a short bio about yourself to the profile (About me), a profile picture and your contact information.

Badges issued with Open Badge Factory

Open Badge Passport is your personal space where you can receive and manage your badges. Badges issued with Open Badge Factory will be automatically placed into your Passport. You will be able to accept or reject them with one click.

You can find new Open Badges issued to you from Badges – My badges on top of the page and then you can either accept or reject them.

Import badges from Mozilla Backpack

You can import your existing badges from your Mozilla Backpack account. Before you start make sure that the e-mail address associated with your Backpack account is saved at the E-mail addresses page.

To import badges from Backpack, badges have to be placed to a public Collection (group). If your badges are not in a public Collection, please follow these instructions:

  1. Please login to your Mozilla Backpack.
  2. Go to Collections page and drag the badges you want to import under any of the collections.
  3. Check “public” checkbox for the collection.
  4. Click “Import badges from Mozilla Backpack” button below.

Your imported badges will appear at My badges page. You can delete unwanted badges at My badges page in badge Settings.

Upload badges from your computer

You can upload your own badge files from your computer:

  1. Click Browse and browse to your badge
  2. Click Open

Your uploaded badges will appear at My badges page. You can delete unwanted badges at My badges page in badge Settings.

Badge settings

After receiving or importing a badge into your Open Badge Passport, you can change its settings by clicking the “settings” –link located in the right lower corner of the badge.

In the settings window, you will be able to change the visibility of your badge from “private” (default) to “public” or “visible to registered users”. You can add tags to your badges so you can find them quickly and easily.

If your badge has been issued through Open Badge Factory, you will be able to add a link into the evidence field. Later on you can change or empty the evidence field content if you wish.

In the settings window you can rate your badge from one to five stars to express how useful and valuable the badge is for you.

Share badges

By clicking the “share” icon located in the lower left corner, you will be able to publish your badge in Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook and Pinterest. You can copy the link displayed in the page to publish your badge everywhere you like in the Web.

In order to do this, the badge has to be set as “public”.

Opening the badge

By clicking the name of your badge, it opens and you can see the information it contains. If the badge has been created with Open Badge Factory, you will be able to see all the information it contains (including the criteria page’s content) displayed in one view and you will be able to print it. The printed version contains a QR-code that gives the possibility to check the validity of the badge.

Import badges

If you have already received some badges in your Mozilla Backpack you can import them into your Open Badge Passport. Before importing your badges into your Passport, check that you have grouped them into collections and that you have set the collections as public.

Upload badges

Some badge issuing platforms give the possibility to earners to save their badges as files into their computers. If you have some of these badge files, you can upload them into your Passport.

Export badges

In this section you can export badges from your Passport into your Backpack and also download them into your computer. Open Badge Passport contents are backed up daily, but you can use this feature if you want to archive your badges in several places or if for some reason, you want to stop using the Open Badge Passport. Notice that exporting badges from the Passport into the Backpack requires that the email address that you use to log in to your Backpack has been added in your Passport’s Email addresses settings. Notice also that you will only be able to export badges to your Backpack, which have been issued with your Backpack’s login address.

Pages

My pages

Here you can create pages easily, where you add your badges and some other files that you have uploaded in your files _-_area.

A page is a simple form where you can add different types of content blocks such as: heading, sub-heading, badge, text editor and files. The difference between heading and sub-heading is the size of fonts. A badge can be displayed in a short or long format. The long format shows all the contents of the badge in one view (requires that the badge has been created with the Open Badge Factory), and the short format shows the name of the badge and the description field of the badge, but only a link for the criteria. With the text editor it’s possible to write text in which pictures and links can be added. With the file block, you can add page files stored in the files area.

Themes

After saving the content of a page you can add a nice layout by selecting one of the ready-made themes offered by the system.

Settings

The visibility settings of a badge and a page are similar except that a page can be published also with a password protected URL (link). This means that viewing the page will require the password set by the page owner. A page displayed with a password protected URL will not be displayed in the Gallery.

Share

The page and badge share and print features work the same way. A page can be shared onto the web or only in the Open Badge Passport. A page can also be printed.

The Gallery is a place where the Passport users can see badges and pages published by the community.

Shared badges

Here is displayed the newest 100 badges published by the community. When you open a badge by clicking its name, you will see who has been earning and publishing the badge. “and x more” means that the badge has been actually earned by more people, but their names are not displayed because they didn’t set the badge as public. If a badge has been rated by some of its earners, the average rate and the number of rated earners will be displayed below the badge’s picture. By clicking the earner’s name, you will be able to visit their profile page. In the profile pages are displayed: the name of the user, their contact information (optional), the badges and pages they have published.

Shared pages

Here are displayed the 100 most recent pages published by the community. A page contains the name of its author, which is a link pointing to their profile page. When a page is set as “public” or “visible to registered users” in the Passport, all badges displayed in the page will be visible in the Gallery.