Earn multiple digital micro-credential badges! Get your badges immediately! Share your badges to show off your skills!
NOTE: Only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges at this time.
See the FAQs at the bottom of this page -- More questions? Contact Dr. Mandy.
Data Literacy! Series badge and workshops cover core data literacy skills with real-life examples and expose students to a variety of data tools. COMING SOON!
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Data skills are highly valued by today's employers -- "the most lucrative skill[s] to have" and "the most valuable skill[s] you can learn." By earning GSU Data Ready! Badges, you demonstrate to potential employers that you are committed to growing the data skills that they look for in hires.
Software & Coding Training badges and workshops cover skills in quantitative & qualitative data analysis, data visualization, and data collection & discovery.
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Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Workshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
A digital badge/micro-credential is a visual symbol of accomplishment. They can be awarded for any definable achievement and earned in many learning environments, games, or the workplace. We are using the GSU Stacks/Canvas system and the Badgr "Open Badges" system to award verifiable badges -- click here for more information about Badgr and Open Badges.
No. Attending the data workshops and earning GSU Data Ready! Badges is FREE!
Each badge requires completing two or three workshops, typically totaling about 5 to 7.5 hours of time commitment for the workshop itself. The number of total quiz questions to earn a badge typically range between 10 to 15 (roughly 5 questions per workshop) and are a mix of multiple choice, true/false, or matching. Once you score 100% on all the badge module's quizzes, you'll automatically receive your badge from the Badgr system.
Yes. You can attend a live workshop OR watch a recorded workshop -- both count toward earning a badge.
Yes. You can attend a live workshop OR watch a recorded workshop -- both count toward earning a badge.
Yes. Current GSU students, faculty, and staff can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. A GSU CampusID is required to sign in.
No. Only current GSU students, faculty, and staff can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. GSU Alumni CANNOT earn badges because the badge system is tied to having a current and active CampusID.
Yes. GSU alumni are welcome to attend live workshops or recorded workshops.
No. Only current GSU students, faculty, and staff can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. Non-GSU people CANNOT earn badges because the badge system is tied to having a current and active CampusID.
Yes. Non-GSU people are welcome to attend live workshops or recorded workshops.
No. We have stopped our attendance-based certification program and replaced it with this new digital badges micro-credentialing program that requires completion of quiz assessments to earn GSU Data Ready! Badges.
Because badges are better!
See why LinkedIn recommends digital badges as an eLearning strategy.
Yes, but only if you are a current GSU student, faculty, or staff member. If you remember the workshop content well enough to score 100% on the badge quizzes, you do not need to re-attend or re-watch workshops to earn GSU Data Ready! Badges. If you're not feeling that confident about remembering the workshop content, re-attend live workshops or re-watch recorded workshops to refresh your learning and take the quizzes to earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges.
Yes, but only if you are a current GSU student, faculty, or staff member. If you remember the workshop content well enough to score 100% on the badge quizzes, you do not need to re-attend or re-watch workshops to earn GSU Data Ready! Badges. If you're not feeling that confident about remembering the workshop content, re-attend live workshops or re-watch recorded workshops to refresh your learning and take the quizzes to earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges.
Yes. We know it looks suspicious, but currently we have no way to change the automated Badgr email so that the From: name does not say Default Frontend Config. Rest assured, the email from the badgr.com site is safe to open, whether it goes directly to your GSU email Inbox, into the Junk folder, or into spam quarantine.
No, but recommended. While not required to receive badges, we recommend creating a Badgr account so you can take advantage of Badgr's Backpack feature for easily sharing your digital badges with others.
No. The GSU Data Ready! Badges do not expire. Your badge will have the issue date on it to indicate when you received the badge.
No. Because the badges do not expire, you can earn each individual badge one time only. You are welcome to re-attend or re-watch workshops that you've already earned badges for to refresh your learning -- but you will not be able to retake the workshops to receive a new/duplicate badge because you've already earned that badge.
Yes. Every badge page indicates that it's been verified, provides a Re-verify Badge button to verify on the spot, and includes an Independently Verify Badge link to Open Badges 2.0 Validator to validate the badge and verify the recipient.
Yes, please do! Students can attend live workshops or recorded workshops on their own time, go to the GSU Library's Stacks course catalog to join/"enroll" in the appropriate GSU Data Ready! Badge course, and complete our quiz learning assessments to earn badges. Once students receive a badge, have them share it with you for verification by either (1) having them forward their Badgr email notification, or (2) having them create a Badgr account to then send you a link to their badge in their Badgr Backpack. It's that easy!
No. Only GSU course instructors can assign GSU Data Ready! Badges for required or extra credit because only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. Non-GSU students are welcome to attend live workshops or recorded workshops, and Non-GSU instructors are welcome to assign workshops and create their own approach for having students verify workshop attendance. NOTE: We cannot track attendance for you.
No. ​Only workshops in which a methodology and/or a software application is taught and that involve learning specific data/methods skills count toward the badges; Data in the ATL talks and Data Empowered Events do not meet these specific outcomes.
Contact Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Head of the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Department.