Upon viewing your credential on the Credential View page, your unique credential URL can be located within the web address bar of your web browser.

You can place your credential's unique URL in a large variety of places, including:

• Social Media Profiles
• Websites and Blogs
• Digital Resumes
• Email Signatures
• Where ever you can think of!

Sharing your credential link allows others, like admissions officers or potential employers, to easily view and verify your achievement.

By directing people to your Credential View page, they can confirm the credential’s authenticity, learn more about what it represents, and better understand how you earned it.

Locate your unique credential URL on the Credential View page. Your unique credential URL can be located within the web address bar of your web browser. This link can be shared on websites, digital resumes, email signatures, and social media profiles.

Two Ways of Adding Your Credential to LinkedIn

Share to LinkedIn

Create a post about your credential that will appear to your connections in your LinkedIn Newsfeed.

1. Click on the LinkedIn 'Share' button at the bottom of the credential window. If you are not already logged in to your LinkedIn account, you will be prompted to do so.
2. You will then be taken to LinkedIn's site, where you can choose to share as a post or as a private message.
3. Write a message to accompany your certificate in your post or message and click Post/Send.

You will then have a lovely big statement about your achievement that is visible to all your connections. Do bear in mind, though, that this will drop through the newsfeed and become less visible as time goes by.

Add to LinkedIn Profile

1. To add your credential to your LinkedIn profile, you will need to be signed in to your credential. 
2. When signed in to your credential, you will see that the 'Verify' button on your credential view is replaced with an 'Add to LinkedIn Profile' button. Click this button.
3. A pop-up will appear to confirm how you would like to share your credential. Select 'Add to my profile.'
4. Your credential information will be automatically carried over to the 'License and Certification' form in LinkedIn. Click 'Save.'
5. Your credential will then appear on your LinkedIn profile for as long as you would like it to be there, and anyone that clicks on the link will be taken straight to your credential view, where it can be verified.

Embedding into an email signature works best with badges instead of certificates, which can look too big and bulky at the bottom of an email. For this article, we will only refer to embedding badges.

If you have a certificate and a badge for your achievement, you can embed the badge in your email signature, and with one click, people can be sent to view the whole certificate.

Even if you have a badge to embed and no certificate, having it lead back to your badge's live credential view helps people verify its validity.

Embed the Badge

1. Go to the credential view of the badge you would like to embed.

2. At the bottom of the credential window, click on the 'Embed' button.

If this feature appears grayed out or not visible, you may need to sign in to your credential to access it.

Embed into Gmail Signature

1. In the 'Embed Credential' window that appears, click the 'Gmail Signature' tab at the top of the window and then the 'Copy Link' button next to your Badge Image URL.
2. In a separate tab of your internet browser, open your Gmail account and click the cog icon (Settings) at the top right-hand corner of your view. In the drop-down menu, click 'See all settings.'
3. Scroll down to the 'Signature' section. [Create a new signature if needed.]
4. Click on the 'Insert Image' button at the top of the signature toolbar, then to the Web Address (URL) tab.
5. Paste the Badge Image URL that you copied from the 'Embed Credential' window earlier.
6. Once the badge image has appeared, click on 'Select' at the bottom left-hand corner of the window.
7. The badge will now appear in your email signature. You can select the image and resize it to small, medium, or large if you like.
8. Go back to the tab of your credential view. In the 'Embed Credential' window, highlight and copy your credential's URL of Step 5.
9. Go back to the tab with your Gmail account signature settings and Highlight the badge image and click the 'Link' tool at the top of the signature toolbar.
10. In the box marked 'To what URL should this link go?' past the URL you just copied, then click 'OK' at the bottom right-hand corner of the window.
11. Once you are happy with the appearance of your overall signature line, scroll to the bottom of your Gmail settings and click 'Save Changes.'

Embed into Outlook Signature

1. In the 'Embed Credential' window that appears, click the 'Outlook Signature' tab at the top of the window, then right-click the image of your badge. Select 'Save Image As' and download the badge onto your computer.
2. Open Microsoft Outlook and click on 'New Email.'
3. In the new message, the window goes to the 'Signatures' and clicks on 'Signatures' from the drop-down menu.
4. Either create a new signature or select an existing one to edit.
5. To the far right of the signature editing toolbar, select 'Add Image' and select the image of the badge you just downloaded.
6. Go back to the tab of your credential view. In the 'Embed Credential' window, highlight and copy the red text, which is your credential's URL.
7. Highlight the badge you have just uploaded to your signature and click the 'Link' button at the far right-hand side of the toolbar.
8. Paste the credential URL into the 'Address' field at the bottom of the window that appears, then click 'OK.'
9. Once you are happy with the appearance of your overall signature line, click 'OK' to save.

Other Email Clients

If you use an email client other than Gmail or Outlook, such as Yahoo, Hotmail, or Mac Mail, we recommend:

1. Downloading the PNG of your badge using the 'Download Badge' function in the left-hand sidebar of the credential view.

2. Go into the signature settings of your particular email client and inserting the PNG.

3. Highlight the badge image and use your email client's 'Link' function and paste your credential's URL into it. The URL is the web address for your digital credential.

4. Don't forget to hit save on any changes you make to your email signature.

Download a PDF Version of your Certificate

1. Navigate to the certificate that you would like to download.
2. Along the bottom of the credential window, click the 'PDF' button.
3. A PDF version of your credential will appear. Save this onto your computer.

Download and Print the Certificate

To print your certificate, you need to download a PDF copy first:

1. Along the bottom of the credential window, click the 'PDF' button.
2. A PDF copy of your certificate will open in a new browser window. Click on the download icon at the top of your PDF window.
3. Open the PDF version of your certificate now downloaded to your computer. Go to 'File' at the top of your screen, then click on 'Print.'
4. Follow the printing instructions of your computer.

If someone clicks the “Request ECE Evaluation Report” link on your public Insignia page, they will be prompted to create an institutional Dispatch account. Once they have registered for Dispatch, you can order a report copy from your ECE account and select their organization as the recipient.

No, the Insignia package can only be added during the initial application process.