Prerequisites: Badges are an advanced feature that is enabled by default. In the unlikely event it is not, you can contact the customer support team to enable it for you.
Summary: Badges are a form of digital credential, awarded to users for the achievement or demonstration of certain skills, knowledge, or behaviors. You can change how badges look, can set them to be awarded automatically for actions in the LMS, and can award them manually. All of this can be done from the badges section of the admin menu.
After earning a badge, users can choose to display it publicly across a variety of social and professional networking platforms When a badge is shared and displayed, details of the badge (such as the criteria for earning the badge and the organization who awarded the badge) are shown.
Within the LMS, there are two types of badges:
Site badges: Available to all users within a site and awarded for activities or criteria at the system level - such as completing a program or adding information to a user profile field.
Course badges: Available to users enrolled in a course and awarded for activities, behaviors, or actions within the course - such as completing an activity or the course.
Badge settings
Site administrators and users with capability badges:manageglobalsettings can configure the general Badge settings via the Badges area under the Site administration menu.
These options set the default values for fields in a new badge form but can be changed by a badge creator if necessary.
Manage badges
Go to Manage badges via the Badges area under the Site administration menu.
Here you can add, remove, and monitor your badges. Press Add a new badge to create a new one.
Creating a badge
Fill in all the details. We recommend using a square image of 250x250.
Press Create badge to continue to the Criteria.
- Manual issue by role lets you pick roles from a list, and then the users with that role can manually award badges to users.
- Completing a set of courses lets you pick which courses a learner must complete in order to earn the badge.
- Profile completion lets you select which elements of their profile a learner must complete in order to earn the badge (e.g. first name, job title, etc...)
- Audience membership lets you select an audience or audiences, when a learner is a member of one or all of them, they will receive the badge.
- Program completion will award a badge when the specified program(s) is completed.
Manually awarding a badge
If you’ve set your badge’s criteria to Manual issue by role (see previous page) then users with the selected role(s) can award badges by following these steps:
Go to Manage badges.
Click on the trophy icon next to the badge you want to award.
In the right-hand column, select the user you would like to award the badge to. Then click Award badge.