Hello Instructure Community!
In case you missed it, Canvas Credentials is moving to the Parchment Award family, and will be officially Parchment Digital Badges on October 31, 2025!
While today this is only a rebrand, it's an important first step in streamlining our issuing offerings and services, as well as ultimately enhancing your experience with digital badging.
Digital badging is proving to be more crucial than ever for today’s learners. With 97% of employers already using or considering moving toward a skills-based hiring approach*, equipping learners with opportunities to demonstrate their skills is pivotal to supporting their academic and career goals.
To help you provide this support to your learners, we envision an end-to-end, holistic credentialing solution that supports every step toward those student goals and their individual learning journeys. This is a crucial first step toward allowing you to more effectively manage enrollments, issue credentials, and maintain student records.
Here, we want to share a little more insight into the Canvas Credentials branding change to Parchment Digital Badges and what you can anticipate in the coming weeks.
What's Changing?
Today this change is purely a re-brand to bring Instructure’s digital badging solution under the trusted Parchment umbrella. This means the only immediate impact to the end-user experience will be naming and branding updates. Users will see some minor changes:
- Within the product itself - there will be newly reflected Parchment branding
- Within the LTI name in Canvas - this will be called “Parchment Badges”
- The url for the product - the new domain will be <institution domain>.parchment.badges.com
- Support email - this change is coming and more information will be provided!
An example of the in-product change can be seen below. As you can see, the changes are strictly branding within the user interface:
Why the Change?
Our goal is to help institutions like yours through their issuance of degree and non-degree credentials, allowing institutions to manage these artifacts through a common platform in Parchment. This all serves to support you to better engage, prepare, and assist learners in achieving their academic and career goals.
This first major step, unifying all issuing services and solutions within the Parchment family, will provide you with the ability to more effectively manage enrollments, credential issuance, and student records, all on one platform.
Equipping your learners with a unified experience to demonstrate their achievements is crucial to provide a holistic look into their capabilities for wherever their learning takes them.
When Will the Changes Take Place?
The in-product change, where Canvas Credentials will officially be rebranded as Parchment Award Digital Badges within the product, will take place on October 31st, 2025. There are also a series of communications that we are planning over the next few weeks to continue awareness around these changes. Here is where you can follow along:
- The Product Blog
- Canvas Credentials (Parchment Digital Badges) Release Notes
- Instructure New & Next Program
What Resources Are Available Now?
While the change is minor, we have created resources that can help you to avoid any disruption to your product experience.
Please reply with any questions, or feel free to reach out to your customer success manager.
- The Instructure Team
*Source: AACSB Insights
