Microcredentials Help

The Career Academy is a curated library of Professional Certificates offering industry on-demand skills. The leading authors of these certificates include Google, Meta, IBM, and many more.

Our partnership with Coursera allows free access to the Career Academy to all UT Dallas students, faculty, and staff.

The Professional Certificates include many on-demand industry skills, such as Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Project Management, etc. Professional Certificates average between 6 - 10 courses each with most including capstone projects or certification exam prep courses (as available).

All professional certificates require no prior knowledge and start at a beginner level.

Faculty can choose between embedding stand-alone courses (ex. Introduction to Data) or the whole Professional Certificate (ex. IBM's Data Analyst). Embedding Courses may be more beneficial to briefly introduce students to a topic, while assigning a whole certificate would ensure the students grasp a more robust understanding of the subject.

The professional certificates average from 6-10 courses. However, these courses' structures closer resemble chapters of textbooks and can be completed significantly sooner than the estimated time found on the Coursera website. Some students finish the entire Professional Certificates in as little as a couple of weeks (depending on their academic responsibilities).

Some Professional Certificates provide the required study materials for industry recognized certificate exams (ex. CompTIA). Our partnership offers free access to the professional certificates only. Any costs related to the exams or additional study materials are not covered by UTD.

Coursera promotional materials may promote content housed under their subscription service, Coursera Plus. Our partnership does not offer access to Coursera Plus. Anyone interested in these materials may purchase them directly from Coursera.

For common troubleshooting support, please ask your students to review the Coursera FAQ document housed on the eLearning Landing page. If they still need help, they can email microcredentials@utdallas.edu.

For common troubleshooting support, please review the Coursera FAQ document housed on the eLearning Landing page. To ask additional questions, schedule a meeting, or request 1-1 or departmental trainings, please email microcredentials@utdallas.edu.

Digital Badges are a digital representation of the completion of a microcredential. Recipients may share this digital credential via link or through social media platforms, such as LinkedIn. UTD awards digital badges for academic and non-academic programs.

All digital badges awarded by UTD do not expire.

Recipients will receive two emails. The first email will include instructions to set up the Canvas Credentials account, and the second email will be directly from Canvas Credentials with a direct link to the digital badge.

To retrieve your digital badge, you must:

• Create a Canvas Credentials account using your netid@utdallas.edu email address
• Open the email notification from noreply@badgr.com, and click “Go to the Badge” found at bottom of email body.
• Log in & View the badge.

This badge will automatically be stored under the "Backpack" tab.

When you are viewing the badge within Canvas Credentials, you will see a "Share" button at the top right. Click the button and select and follow the prompts for the desired social media platform.

All new and existing programs can submit a proposal to award a digital badge. If approved, the microcredentials team will create and award the digital badge through Canvas Credentials.

Canvas Credentials is a digital badging platform. It allows users to view, share, and store their digital badges.

All recipients must create a Canvas Credentials account using their netid@utdallas.edu email address to view and store their digital badges awarded by UTD.

No. User accounts to view and store badges are free.