How can I use Badges in my Community?
Badges can be an integral part of member interaction in a community. When engaging in discussions, community members can view others' profiles and which badges they have earned. This encourages participation in the community with the incentive of earning badges to show expertise and knowledge about the community subject matter.
You can configure your badges to keep your participants active by requiring a certain number of posts, or by issuing badges for upvotes and accepted answers.
- Click on the
button to add a new badge.
- Give the badge a Name and a short Description of its purpose. The name and description 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.
- Set the Max Awarded Per Learner to the number of times a single learner can earn the badge. If no number is entered, the badge can be earned an unlimited number of times. If you need to set the number back to unlimited after entering an amount, just remove the number.
- Choose your badge Rules. You can select just one, or multiple rules for a single badge.
- Minimum number of questions asked by learner: Requires the participant to post a certain number of questions in the community to receive the badge.
- Learner's question with minimum number of up-votes: Requires that the participant receive a certian number of up-votes on their question to receive the badge.
- Learner's answer with minimum number of up-votes: Requires that the participant receive a certain number of up-votes on an answer to a community question to receive the badge.
- Minimum number of learner's answers marked correct: Requires the participant to receive a certain number of accepted answers in Q&A's to receive the badge.
- Learner's file with minimum number of downloads: Requires that the participant's uploaded files have been downloaded a certain number of times to receive the badge.
- Minimum number of topics created by learner: Requires that the participant create a certain number of discussion topics to receive the badge.
- Minimum number of posts made by learner: Requires the participant to make a certain number of posts in discussion threads to receive the badge.
- Learner's topic with minimum number of posts: Requires that the participant's discussion thread receive a certain number of posts to receive the badge.