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Frequently Asked Questions

HPass Digital Badging for Individuals

Please do also look at our Resources and Case Studies page, which offers a range of short video guides to using myHPass.

A digital badge is an indicator of achievement, like a certificate, that can be displayed, accessed, and verified online to demonstrate your competencies, skills and experience to employers and colleagues. The badge ‘metadata’ (visible when you click on a badge), tells the viewer exactly what you have done to earn it.

You can earn badges from a variety of different issuers and display them all as part of one myHPass profile. You can also share badges via social media, or include a link to your myHPass profile on your CV.

Anyone can earn a digital badge and display it on myHPass. The site is dedicated to badges related to humanitarian action, so it is most suitable for staff and volunteers involved in humanitarian action or those seeking to be involved in future.
To find out more about how you can earn a digital badge visit our digital badging page for individuals.

When you earn your first badge, you will receive an email prompting you to claim your badge and set up a myHPass account. You will then be able to add further badges to the same myHPass profile.

You can also set up a myHPass account before earning your first badge, by visiting myHPass

Once you have completed the requirements to earn a digital badge (for example by completing an e-learning course which offers a badge), you will receive an email prompting you to claim your badge. Follow the instructions in the email to accept your badge and display it on a myHPass profile.

 

Your myHPass account lets you make your badge public and share it on myHPass and on social media. You can also create pages on myHPass to display your badges with other material, such as your CV. Alternatively you can edit a page on myHPass called ‘My Profile’ and share with others.

Find out more by emailing info@hpass.org, or download the digital badging infographic here.

Yes, you can upload badges to myHPass that come from other systems that support the Open Badge standard such as Open Badge Passport, Credly and Badgr. Download your badge from the other system and upload the badge to myHPass. (Go to Badges > Manage > Upload)

Adding badges to your MyHPass account is straightforward with our “Import Badges with Assertion URL” feature. Follow these simple steps to import your badges:

  1. Locate the Assertion URL of the Badge: The assertion URL is a unique link provided for each badge you’ve earned. This URL verifies your badge’s authenticity and ownership.

  2. Importing Your Badge:

    • Navigate to the “Import Badge” section of your MyHPass account.
    • Copy and paste the badge’s assertion URL into the designated text field.
    • Click on “Import badge” to proceed.

  3. Viewing Your Badges:

    • Once imported, your badges will be visible under “My Badges”.
    • Should you wish to remove any badges, simply click on the badge you wish to delete and navigate to the delete tab.

Important Note: For the import process to be successful, ensure that the email address registered on the platform from which you are importing the badge matches the email address registered on your MyHPass account. If the emails do not match, the badge import will not be completed.

HPass Digital Badging for Organisations

A digital badge is an indicator of achievement, like a certificate, that can be displayed, accessed, and verified online to demonstrate the recipient’s competencies, skills and experience to employers and colleagues. Digital badges are comprised of an image, and the badge metadata (visible by clicking on the badge), which enables you to see details about the requirements for earning the badge.

You can issue badges to your staff, volunteers and learners in recognition of their skills, achievements and experience. Badges can be used to recognise course completions, assessed competencies, practical experience or a combination, as per the needs of your organisation. Click here to see an example of how World Vision are using digital badges on HPass. (insert link) – pdf to be provided or link back to resources page and case study there.

Your staff, volunteers and learners can build up a portfolio of humanitarian badges on myHPass. They can earn badges from a variety of different issuers and display them all as part of one myHPass profile. They can also share them via social media or include a link to their myHPass profile on a CV.

 

Anyone can earn a digital badge and display it on myHPass. The site is dedicated to badges related to humanitarian action, so it is most suitable for staff and volunteers involved in humanitarian action or those seeking to be involved in future.

HPass badges are created inside a ‘badge factory’, using a simple step-by-step process. The key steps are to create the badge image, to set the requirements for earning a badge, and reflect these in the badge metadata.

Badges can then be issued to staff, volunteers or learners in recognition of their achievements. This can either by done automatically (eg as a result of them completing an online course), or manually by uploading a list of badge earners.

There are many benefits from using digital badges, including:

  • Motivating staff, volunteers and learners to pursue professional development by enabling them to gain evidence of their achievements
  • Providing a clear and transparent mechanism to recognise course/module completions, experience or assessed competencies
  • Easily identify staff with relevant skills, for example for selection for deployment or to work on specific projects

Reaching a wider audience through a publicly searchable catalogue or for a limited audience of your own staff and volunteers

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Quality Standards

The HPass Quality Standards draw together best practice in humanitarian learning and assessment from across the global humanitarian sector.

The standards are available in the form of handbooks and can be used by your organisation as guidance documents, and to review and improve the quality of the humanitarian learning and assessment you provide.

There are two sets of Standards, each contained in a handbook:

  • Humanitarian Learning Standards
  • Standards for Assessment of Humanitarian Competencies

You can learn more about the Standards here

The Quality Standards are for any organisation providing humanitarian learning and assessment services. These may be NGOs, learning and development departments of INGOs or UN agencies, private sector organisations, civil society organisations or academic institutions.

Organisations can download the Standards and use them as reference documents to learn more about best practice for humanitarian learning and assessment. Organisations can also download and complete the self-assessment form to identify areas for improvement.

Both sets of Standards – the Learning Standards and the Standards for the Assessment of Humanitarian Competencies – are split into two levels – silver and gold.

Each Standard has accompanying key actions which indicate whether an organisation is meeting that Standard. The silver Standards have half the key actions that the gold Standards do and have been designed to reflect the core essential key actions an organisation must be meeting to achieve that Standard. Whilst the gold level Standards are more extensive and are intended for more experienced organisations.

In the Quality Standard handbooks those key actions which are only required for the gold level are indicated with a gold asterisk (*) beside them.