Why use it?
Badges are a good way of incentivising students, rewarding achievement(s) and/ or steps in their progress. In conjunction with conditions/ criteria (see Completion Tracking), they can be awarded automatically. Students can display them on their profile pages.
Add a Badge
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Go to your course, and choose the MORE dropdown from the course menu tab. Choose Badges.
Give your badge a name and a description, then add an image (these are all required).
Set badge awarding criterium. Activity completion or course completion are good choices.
On the next page you can add further criteria, change criteria and, crucially, enable access to the badge.
You will have to confirm that students can access the badge, which will limit your ability to make further changes. To make changes again, you must disable access. If even one person has earned the badge, it becomes automatically locked and you cannot change criteria again. If you do want to make changes, you will have to duplicate the badge (= creating a new badge).
Student access to and view of badges
Once a badge has been created in a particular course, a new menu item will appear in the student view of a course.
From here, students can view which Badges they can or already have acquired. It will also tell them which criteria must be fulfilled to have a badge awarded. They will also be able to see badges from all their courses from their own profile page.