Explore Credly Skill Data & Analytics in Watershed
Watershed helps you track in-demand skills, celebrate learners’ training accomplishments, and ensure Credly utilization.
With Credly data in Watershed, you can track your people’s skills and accreditations. Keep pace with trending skills, map out skills in your organization, and identify knowledge gaps. You can also use Credly reporting in Watershed to celebrate accomplishments and ensure all parts of the organization use Credly.
Watershed lets you combine your Credly data with HRIS data, as well as any other data sources you may already be using. This helps you spot trends across your entire learning ecosystem.
Empower your people to make data-driven learning and development decisions by giving them the data they need, in a format they understand. Our reports can all be accessed via our easy to use dashboard, and can be fully configured to individual needs.
Watershed lets you monitor the skills your people develop.
Skill data has never been more critical—which is why you need Watershed to present your Credly data. You’ll gain insights into how your people develop knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as their recognized competencies.
- Identify Trending & Emerging Skills
- Visualize Existing Skills in the Organization
- Highlight Skills Gaps
Identify Trending & Emerging Skills
Tracking which digital credentials people earn enables you to monitor those associated skills' growth (or decline). You also can identify emerging popular skills and use those insights to inform hiring and training needs analysis decisions.
For example, suppose all your developers are suddenly earning digital credentials relating to a hot new programming language. You might consider asking about that language when recruiting new developers or incorporating learning about that language in the developer onboarding program.
Visualize Existing Skills in the Organization
Knowing what skills you have already in your organization is critical to making the best use of your people.
This helps avoid contracting unnecessary and costly consultants when skills already exist internally and helps people feel valued and recognized for the skills they have developed.
Highlight Skills Gaps
Understanding where you have skills gaps is crucial to inform hiring and training needs analysis decisions since you will either need to hire or train to fill those gaps. Credly data combined in Watershed with benchmarks of desired skills levels enables you to visualize where the organization falls short of those benchmarks.
Identify Trending & Emerging Skills
Tracking which digital credentials people earn enables you to monitor those associated skills' growth (or decline). You also can identify emerging popular skills and use those insights to inform hiring and training needs analysis decisions.
For example, suppose all your developers are suddenly earning digital credentials relating to a hot new programming language. You might consider asking about that language when recruiting new developers or incorporating learning about that language in the developer onboarding program.
Visualize Existing Skills in the Organization
Knowing what skills you have already in your organization is critical to making the best use of your people.
This helps avoid contracting unnecessary and costly consultants when skills already exist internally and helps people feel valued and recognized for the skills they have developed.
Highlight Skills Gaps
Understanding where you have skills gaps is crucial to inform hiring and training needs analysis decisions since you will either need to hire or train to fill those gaps. Credly data combined in Watershed with benchmarks of desired skills levels enables you to visualize where the organization falls short of those benchmarks.
Celebrate individual and team achievements.
Credly digital credentials are a great way to recognize and celebrate your team's learning achievements. You can use an individual or team dashboard in Watershed to show off those achievements. Team dashboards also provide managers with a view of what skills their people are developing—which can help inform development and hiring decisions as well as help managers assign work to the most appropriately skilled team member with availability.
By integrating both Credly and HRIS data into Watershed, you can automatically assign data permissions to managers so they can see their own people's digital badge data. This means you can configure a single team dashboard once, and each manager will then see relevant data about their people in that dashboard.
Evaluate digital credentials for impact on job performance.
Integrate Credly data with job performance data to evaluate whether those who have earned a particular credential perform better in tasks related to that credential than those who have not earned it. This helps you understand the credential's effectiveness at indicating job performance.
Ensure high uptake of Credly digital credentials across the organization.
You've invested a lot of effort into creating useful digital credentials in Credly, so it's vital to ensure that Credly is used across the organization to ensure maximum impact. Combining your HRIS data with Credly data in Watershed means you can:
- report on how often certain parts of the organization use Credly, and
- identify where you need to target efforts to promote Credly where uptake is lower.
How do I convince my stakeholders?
Digital credentials—delivered by Credly and tracked in Watershed—are a valuable way to recognize, verify, and track skills development in your organization. Yet, only about 1 in 3 large organizations actually use a digital credential platform today. That’s why we put together this helpful guide outlining how to build a business case and convince your stakeholders that digital credentials and associated reporting are worth the investment.
How does Credly work with Watershed?
Watershed’s reusable Credly connector pulls data from Credly and presents it in flexible dashboards and reports. You can report on digital badges and credentials as learners earn them and keep up with the accredited skills in your organization. We handle the whole integration process, so you can relax and let the data flow.
Report on Credly data in Watershed alongside data from all your other learning platforms to see the learning activities that contributed to earning digital credentials. This includes learning platforms like:
- An LMS (e.g. Bridge, Cornerstone)
- An LXP (e.g. EdCast, Bridge Advanced Video/Instilled, Degreed)
- Video Platforms (e.g. Kaltura)
What data is included?
Watershed pulls data from Credly about when learners earn a digital credential, such as:
- Information about who earned what and when. This includes the learner's name and identifier, the digital credential earned, and the date it was earned.
- Metadata about the digital credential. This includes the credential's difficulty level, the required activities associated with earning it, and a list of skills related to earning it.
We handle all the implementation details of the integration between Credly and Watershed. However, you may find the following resources helpful:
How do I get started?
Reach out to your Watershed account manager to enable the connector to get started. We've already done the development work, and the data is ready to flow. Or, if you're not already a Watershed customer, contact us for a demo.