What are Badges?
The practice of awarding badges as a motivational tool is nothing new. The military and scouting organizations have been using badges for many years to acknowedge and award achievements.
What are the benefits of using Badges?
Badges are a way to introduce the concept of Gamification into your site. By motivating learners and recognizing their achievements, badges can make a learning platform more engaging and increase learning product sales. Using badges, learners can showcase their accomplishments and authenticate their level of knowledge and experience within a community.
How do Badges work?
Badges are awarded based on specific rules that are selected by the administrator, such as completing a learning product, getting a certain score on an assessment, setting up a public profile, posting in a community or enrolling in a certain number of products.
Badges are only awarded once an individual accomplishes a set of learning goals similar to those associated with earning educational certificates.
- Click the
button to add a new Badge.
- Give the badge a Name. This name will be visible to learners along with with badge icon.
- Click the
button in the Badge field to find and upload your image. All badge image files should be 200x200 png images.
- create your own badge! It's fun and easy. Click the Open Badges link to design a badge.
- Enter an Acclaim Integration ID, if applicable.
- Select the appropriate rules for earning the badge in the Rules field. (See sections below on Badge Rules).
- Click
.
- Once saved, your badge will be added to the Badges Dashboard at Admin Dashboard>Badges as well as the Badge tab in the Product.
Badge rules relate to Enrollments, Completions, Claimed Credits, Conferences, Assessments, and miscellaneous actions such as completing a public profile. Badges can be tied to a specific Learning Product or to general actions on the portal.
To access badges tied to general site functions, go to Admin Dashboard>Badges.
Learning Product Badge rules are based on the set up of your learning product. Badges can be awarded on assessment scores, an overall score for the learning product, claiming credit, or completion of the learning product. Any combination of these rules can be set to award a unique badge to your learners.
- Complete Learning Product is always available as a rule option
- This rule will award the badge when the learner completes the learning product.
- Complete Learning Product with Overall Score Range is available when an overall score is set in the learning product. You must set a min/max percentage for the badge rule.
- This rule will award the badge when the learner achieves an overall score within the range set.
- Complete Assessment(s) withing Score Range is available for every assessment in the learning product. You must set a min/max percentage for each assessment included in the badge rule.
- This rule will award the badge when the learner achieves a score within the range set on each assessment included in the rule.
- Claim Credit(s) is available for every credit in the learning product.
- This rule will award the badge when the learner claims any credit included in the rule.
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