Badges are a good way of celebrating achievement and showing progress. Badges may be awarded based on a variety of chosen criteria and may be displayed on a user’s profile
Badge
In the course page;
Step 1: Go to management page
Click on the “Gear” icon at the top right of the page to go to “Management” page
Step 2: Scroll down to Badge section
In the management page scroll down to the Badges section click on “Add a new badges”
Step 3: Fill in the badges details.
Badge details
Add a name and description and upload your badge here.
Issuer details
If you add the teacher name here, it will appear when the badge is displayed. An email address is optional.
Badge expiry
Set a date here if the badge will cease to be valid after a certain date. Leave it to never if you want the badge to be permanently displayed.
- When the settings are saved, you are then taken to the Manage badges screen where you can decide the criteria for awarding the badge along with other optional information.
Step 4: Click Create and save
Step 5: Set the criteria
Criteria
- For course badges, the criteria are: Manual issue by role; course completion, activity completion, previously awarded badges, and competencies.
- When selecting Manual completion by role, you can choose the role you wish to award the badge, so for example a teacher could allow a non-editing teacher to award badges in the course.
For badges to be awarded for course or activity completion, Completion tracking must be enabled in the site and the course.
Step 6: Enable Access
Once criteria have been set, you are returned to the Manage badges screen where you must “enable access” for the badge to be available:
When you clicked “Enable” a pop-up will appear – Click continue
Your badge is now available to your students. To disable the badge click on the “disable access” button
