Comparing Canvas Badges Basic and Canvas Credentials
Canvas Credentials offers a variety of features to help stack credentials, track analytics, gamify student learning and make implementing a full-scale badging program easy and fun. Canvas Credentials can be used with or without a Learning Management System (LMS).
Compare our free offering, Canvas Badges, with our paid Canvas Credentials version
The good folks at Canvas Badges strive to regularly improve the overall functionality of the Canvas Badges app and add new and useful features for users. Below you'll find a comparison chart for Canvas Badges's free version and our paid pro features. We will update this chart as new features become available, both to Canvas Badges Basic and Canvas Credentials and your LMS
Canvas Badges offers free LTI versions 1.1 and 1.3 for Canvas LMS users that can be upgraded with a Canvas Credentials membership to include additional features such as Canvas Credentials Pathways.
Badging data may be housed in the Canvas Credentials server of your choice (Australia, Canada, Europe or the U.S.).
| Features | Personal Space (Canvas Badges) | Organizational Space (Canvas Credentials) |
|---|---|---|
| Social media sharing |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Badge expiration |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Associate standards with badge awards |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Manage “staff” access to issuer(s) |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Public pages |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Badge award data export via CSV |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Certificate format and designs | 1 template option | 9 template options |
| Bulk badge awards via CSV | Limit 50/file | Unlimited |
| Organization space |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Custom welcome page |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Canvas Credentials Pathways & LTI |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Advanced analytics |
❌ |
✔️ |
| QR & claim codes |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Customize your language |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Associate Emsi/Indeed job postings |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Groups membership management |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Organization & Issuer member lists |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Learner record |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Explore other pathways |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Customizations/white label |
❌ |
Additional fee |
| Custom SSO |
❌ |
Additional fee |
| Badgr Groups for Blackboard LMS | Personal Space (Badgr Basic) | Organization Space (Badgr Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| Five-minute LTI setup for Blackboard LMS |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Manual badge objective |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| BB assignment badge objectives |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| CSV progress export |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Course leaderboard |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Custom leaderboard points for badges |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Issuer locking |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Tracking of external badge awards |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Advanced analytics |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Canvas LMS Features | Personal Space (Badgr Basic) | Organization Space (Badgr Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| Five-minute LTI setup for Canvas LMS |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Course leaderboard |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| CSV progress export |
✔️ |
✔️ |
| Issuer locking |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Tracking of external badge awards |
❌ |
✔️ |
| Course & subaccount analytics |
❌ |
✔️ |
Canvas Badges's API
Canvas Badges offers a full-featured API you can connect with for easy badge awarding. Feel free to access our Quick start guide, API documentation and/or get more information from our Connected app developer's site.
