Verify a GAGE credential
Scanning the GAGE seal on a credential opens its record automatically, with no code to type. This page is for verifying by hand: enter the credential code, which is the long string at the end of the verification link.
The code is the long string at the end of a verification link (/verify/<code>).
What a GAGE credential is
Most certificates are a picture of a past event. A GAGE credential is a live record. It is minted the first time a learner passes a mastery assessment and it lives at one permanent link from then on, so the same link a holder puts on their profile in January still opens the record in December, and it has grown in the meantime as they passed more of the program.
What sits behind that link is the evidence rather than a claim about it: the topics passed, the score on each, and the plain state of the whole thing. Grading happens on our servers, so a score is not something a browser can be persuaded to report. The link, the code and the seal all resolve to the same record.
What the record shows you
- Who earned it and which program, with the date it was issued.
- Every topic they have passed, itemized, with the score for each one.
- Its state, said plainly: complete, still being earned, or revoked.
- Whether the signature on the record validates, checked before anything is shown to you.
- A question box, so you can ask the record something in your own words and be told when your question falls outside what the learner actually did.
How to read it in a minute
Start with the state at the top of the record, because it answers the question you came with. Then read the itemized topics rather than the total: a credential that is still being earned is not a lesser credential, it is a partial one, and the list tells you exactly which parts have been demonstrated. If you want to know whether the holder can do a specific thing, ask the record instead of inferring it from a title.
A record you are shown as a screenshot is not verification. Open the link, or scan the seal, and read the page that comes back on this domain.
See one before you need one
The specimen credential is a real record in the real format, so you can see exactly what a candidate will hand you, including the question box.
Open the sample credentialQuestions
How do I verify a GAGE credential?
Two ways, and both open the same record. Scanning the GAGE seal printed on the credential opens it directly, with no code to type. If you have the verification link or the code at the end of it, enter that code on this page instead. The record that opens is read live from our own database at the moment you ask, so it always reflects what the holder has actually passed rather than what was true on the day the credential was issued.
What does a GAGE credential actually show an employer?
It names the person and the program, then itemizes the topics they passed with the score for each one, and states plainly whether the credential is complete, still being earned, or revoked. Scores are graded on our servers, never in the learner's browser, so a score on the record is a score the learner earned. You can also ask the record a question in plain English, and it will tell you when your question falls outside what the learner actually did rather than guess an answer.
Can a GAGE credential be faked?
Every record carries a signature computed by us over its own contents, and the verify page checks that signature before it shows you anything. A record whose signature does not validate is labeled as such on the page rather than quietly displayed, and a credential we have revoked says revoked in plain words. A link that does not resolve to a record at all is not a GAGE credential.