This user guide provides comprehensive instructions on how to utilize the Badgecraft platform, covering topics such as account registration, organization creation, badge production, and project management. It includes step-by-step procedures for tasks like changing account information, issuing badges, verifying evidence, and generating certificate documents. The guide emphasizes the importance of open badges for recognizing various skills and achievements effectively.

1. User’s Guide
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support@badgecraft.eu

2. In this guide you will find: Slides#
1. How to register your Badgecraft account 3-6
2. How to change information in your account 7-8
3. How to create а new organisation in Badgecraft 9-12
4. How to start creating badges on Badgecraft 13-17
5. How to prepare a simple badge for issuing on Badgecraft 18-21
6. How to prepare a badge with evidence requirements 22-25
7. How to set other badges as a requirement 26-30
8. How to invite people to a badge project 31-34
9. How to change a role of a person involved in a project 35
10. How to confirm badge evidence 36-37
11. How to create and issue badge certificate 38-40
12. How to introduce badges to your organisations and earners 41-44
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3. 1. How to register your Badgecraft account
1.1 Type in your email which you want to use for badge activity on Badgecraft platform. You can use the same email also
for badge earning with Badge Wallet application.
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4. 1.2 Choose your prefered method to login on Badgecraft. Use strong passwords!
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5. 1.3 Choose Badgecraft to create and issue badges. Badge Wallet is for badge earning activities. Make sure you
confirmed your email address to use all features of Badgecraft platform!
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6. 1.4 If you already have an organisation, please choose the one where you have owner or admin rights to be able to
create badge projects and badges. Continue to slide 10 to learn how to create a new organisation.
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7. 2. How to change information in your account
2.1 Go to the upper left corner of the screen and click on Account.
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8. 2.2 Modify your account information as you wish. You can change/add prefered email(s) for using Badgecraft. Upload
your profile picture to be recognisable by other people in your organisation and badge projects.
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9. 3. How to create а new organisation on Badgecraft
3.1 If you want to create your organisation, go to the upper right corner of the screen, click on the three dots and choose
Switch to organisation. You will be redirect to organisations’ switch list.
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10. 3.2 Inside organisations’ switch list click + to create a new organisation or you can edit My first organisation that was
created automatically.
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11. 3.3 Complete required information about organisation and click Create.
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12. 3.4 Follow the link to verify your organisation. Once verified, organisation’s information will be locked. Should you wish to
modify your organisation later, contact Badgecraft to unlock this possibility.
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13. 4. How to start creating badges on Badgecraft
4.1 If you start with a new badge activity, create new project by clicking on + or Add new project. People will join project
for badge earning activities.
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14. 4.2 Complete required project information and click Start adding badges. You will be able later to modify project
information.
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15. 4.3 Choose one of the ways to add badges to your project.
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16. 4.4 Choose Create badge, should you wish creating new badges from the scratch.
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17. 4.5 Choose Import editable copy of badges create new badges based on copies of badges available from badge library.
After importing, you will be able to modify these badges.
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18. 5. How to prepare a simple badge for issuing on Badgecraft
5.1 Should you wish to issue simple badge to emails or after using a special badge code, create a badge which will not
require evidence upload.
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19. 5.2 Complete required badge information. Click Save, should you wish to come back and finalise a badge editing before
making it available. If you finished editing badge, click Save and publish and it will be ready for issuing.
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20. 5.3 Return back to the project view and click on a badge. On the upper right corner of the screen you can choose to
issue badge to earner’s email address or give a special badge code to badge earners.
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21. 5.4 Every badge will have automatically generated code. Badge earners can type in this code or scan QR code with
Badge Wallet app to claim badge. You can choose to create codes manually for multiple or single uses.
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22. 6. How to prepare a badge with evidence requirements
6.1 In a badge edit form choose This badge requires evidence and specify badge tasks. Badge earners will get such
badge automatically after completing required minimum of badge tasks.
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23. 6.2 Define badge tasks and settings for evidence verification. If badge has several tasks, you can decide that evidence
for different tasks are verified by users having different role. Save and publish your badge.
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24. 6.3 Return back to a project view and click on a badge to access a special badge code. Give this code to badge earners
who can use it to get to a badge quest quicker.
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25. 6.4 Should you wish to modify published badge, first you will need to publish it. Click on pencil and unpublish a badge. Be
aware that all completed tasks and submitted evidence will be canceled, except if earner already got this badge.
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26. 7.1 You can choose to select specific other badges in the project to require. Click on Badge requirements select This
badge reiquires other badges and select badges which you want earners to have before they can be issued another
badge. You can also specify minimum number.
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7. How to set other badges as a requirement

27. 7.2 If you choose to activate This badge requires evidence and will keep other badges as requirement, then badge
earner will be required to get other badges before they can start a badge quest.
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28. 7.3 Badge earners will see required badges when viewing a badge inside a project. Once they will complete badge
requirement for other badges, they will receive a notification about unlock of a badge.
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29. 7.4 Badge earners will see required badges when viewing a badge which has other badges as a requirement.
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30. 7.4 You will need to first deselect badge from being set as dependency in case you will want to modify a badge which is
used as a requirement for another badge.
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31. 8. How to invite people to a badge project
8.1 Make sure that you are in a project to which you want to invite people. Click on Share project.
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32. 8.2 Activate auto-join web link. Sent this link to people who you want to join your badge project. By following this link they
will join your badge project. It is also possible to use Badge Wallet to scan the QR code and join a project.
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33. 8.3 People will be added to a project after they will earn their first badge in a project. In the case of a simple badge - after
using badge code. In the case of badge requiring evidence - after completing badge quest.
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34. 8.4 You can invite people to a badge project by sending an invitation to their email. Go to a badge project and click on
Invite people to send them invitation to join a project. Before sending invite, you will be able to specify their role.
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35. 9. How to change a role of a person involved in a project
9. Make sure that you are in a project to which you want to manage a role of a person. Go to People tab and click on the
3 dots and select new role. By changing the role to Owner or Admin you will grant them new rights to manage badges,
project settings, invite people.
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36. 10. How to confirm badge evidence
10.1 You will receive a new notification every time when badge earner will submit evidence. Go to Notifications to view
requests to verify evidence.
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37. 10.2 Choose Evidence and select specific notification to view submitted badge evidence. Review badge task and Accept
or Decline evidence. You may leave a comment or feedback.
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38. 11. How to create and issue badge certificate
11.1 Make sure you are in a project where you want to create and issue badge certificates. Click on More actions (3 dots)
and enter project’s settings.
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39. 11.2 Inside project settings you activate badge certificate option and complete required information for a certificate. Set
who can initiate the issuing of certificates. Save changes.
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40. 11.3 Return back to project view and go to People tab. Click on the 3 dots and click on Generate certificate. Earners will
be notified via email about issued certificate.
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41. 12. How to introduce* badges to your organisations and earners
12.1 Mozilla Foundation introduced the standard of digital Open Badges to represent any learning, skills and
achievements. Visual ideas by Bryan M. Mathers: http://bryanmmathers.com/
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Visual ideas by Bryan M. Mathers: http://bryanmmathers.com/

42. 12.2 Badges are rich with data that is hard-coded inside a badge image and enables you to take your achievements with
you.
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43. 12.3 Badges is a dynamic and engaging way to recognise achievements, skills and talents.
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44. 12.4 Badges combine the best solutions from existing solutions to value and recognise learning and levels up recognition
with new technology.
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