Badge Management
- The digital badges do not represent an official UCM educational record.
- UCM will not provide any support for badge awardees on access to their badges, reissuing lost badges, or management of their badges.
- Individual programs/units may provide support for their badge awardees, as desired. However, it must be noted on any communications describing such support that the awardees may only solicit support through the program/unit and that the university does not maintain or support their digital badge.
Badge Oversight
- A UCM Digital Badge Oversight Committee will be formed. This committee will consist of a representative each from Division of Undergraduate Education, Division of Graduate Education, Student Affairs and the Faculty Senate.
- The Digital Badge Oversight Committee will meet once per semester to review badges in the system for adherence to policy. Badge issuer privileges may be revoked for any unit found out of compliance with policy.
- The Digital Badge Oversight Committee will designate a member each semester to be in charge of periodically reviewing and approving requests for new badge awarders.
- Finally, the Digital Badge Oversight Committee will annually review the program implementation and make recommendations for changes to policy, changes to implementation or roll out of new badge categories.
Other Digital Badging Usage
UCM faculty, staff and students may not independently award digital badges with any UC Merced logo or the UC Merced name through channel other than through the official UCM Digital Badging platform and associated policy.
