This document discusses how to create and manage digital badges in Moodle. It explains that badges can be earned by students for completing tasks like readings, quizzes, or entire courses. The instructor determines the criteria for badge achievement. Badges are created in Moodle by providing a name, image, and criteria. They can then be manually awarded or automatically awarded upon activity or course completion. Students can display their badges on their Moodle profile or sync them to an external digital backpack for sharing accomplishments.

1. Moodle 2.6
By Donna Olsen,
Ph.D.

2. • A badge is an item that appears for a user in
Moodle once it is earned.
• A badge may be earned once the student has
completed certain assignments that have been
set up.
• The best analogy to think of is winning a blue
ribbon or receiving a certificate of
accomplishment.

3. • Badges may be awarded to students for tasks
specific to the course content:
• completing a reading
• viewing a film clip
• taking a quiz.
• An instructor can award badges in place of
grades.

4. • When creating badges, determine who will have
the ability to award them.

5. • The Recipient details spell out why the individual
is receiving the badge.

6. • There are a few restrictions on the achievement
that one can win an award.
• The choices in Moodle are:
• Manual issue by role;
• Course completion;
• Activity completion.
• Usually, completion is based on taking or
finishing the activity or course and not on
performance.

7. • Usually, completion is based on taking or
finishing the activity and not on performance.
• You may put stipulations in place to define
completion further: for example, only giving a
badge to those scoring 95 percent in the course.
• The following picture shows the fields that can be
used to place a stipulation on completion.
• You may limit the completion badges to a
minimum score and/or finish date.

8. • First, create the badges you are going to award.
• To do so, select Add a new badge beneath the
Administration options for the course as shown
•

9. • This requires you to provide a name and image to be
associated with it along with issuer information and
expiration values.

10. • Thenounproject.com
• An icon for every noun
• Credly.com
• Lets you upload icons

11. • Next, choose the criteria for which the badge will be
given.
• If it is to be associated with the completion of an activity,
you'll be prompted to pick which activity/activities it is
associated with as shown on the next slide

13. • Note, you can tie it to the completion of set of activities or
the completion of an activity (or set of) from various
choices.
• After creating the award, you must then "enable it" or
make it live.
• By doing so will automatically award it to all who have
already completed the activity as well.
• Moodle does not offer the ability to remove a badge:
Once it has been given to an individual user, it stays
unless you delete the badge entirely or expiration occurs.

14. • Once you've created a few badges, you'll find
that managing them is pretty straightforward.
• Badges can be awarded by role or completion,
and it is important to note that this is an "and/or"
relationship.

15. • Any one badge can be given based on multiple criteria as
shown

16. • To manually award a badge, you can choose from any
students who are enrolled in the course

17. • Once awarded, you can see a list of recipients and the
date they were awarded.

18. • After a badge has been awarded to a user you
cannot edit the details of the badge.
• The only way to make any changes is to disable
access to it, make the modifications and then
enable it again.

19. • Students can preview available course badges
by selecting the badges link under the Navigation
settings.
• The student, through their "My Profile Settings"
located under the administration block, can
manage awarded badges.

20. • Students can choose whether to allow badges to appear
on their profile page in Moodle or become viewable
outside Moodle through a digital backpack.

21. • Students will be prompted to set up a Mozilla
Personal account should they choose to have
their badges visible to prospective employers or
others outside of Moodle.
• Mozilla through its Open Badges project allows a
student with a personal account to manage and
share their badges kept in their backpack for
showcasing their skills and accomplishments to
potential employers, social media and other
outlets.

22. • Badges provide an easy method by which to
acknowledge the accomplishments of users within
Moodle.
• You can customize them and award them automatically
or manually based upon criteria you establish as an
instructor or in line with institutional standards.
• The ability for students to sync their badges with a digital
backpack outside Moodle greatly expands the impact of
awarding badges in a Moodle course.

23. • http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2014/08/20/Awardi
ng-Badges-in-Moodle.aspx?

24. • Open Chrome
• Go to thenounproject.com
• Type your noun in the search, like instructions
• Click on one
• Download
• Signup
• Login with Facebook
• Download
• Attribution (free)
• Click checkmark to Agree to Attribute the Designer
• Downloads as zip
• Extract all
• Drag png and license.txt to desktop
• Has transparent background
• Svg is for Photoshop

25. • Open a new tab in your browser
• Open credly.com
• Create an account or login
• Use your email address for this one
• Confirm in your email by clicking the link
• In credly.com
• Click on Created tab
• Click on +New Badge
• Click on Shape
• Choose a shape
• Click on icon
• Upload
• Upload an icon
• Browse for png file & open
• Click Use this icon

26. • Click on A to replace “Blank Slate” text
• Type badge name
• Also fill in right side
• Save
• Right click on Badge
• Save image as
• Give name
• Use png
• Save (it downloads)

27. • Go to your course in Moodle
• Badges
• Add a new badge
• Fill in Name, Description
• Upload png file from Credly.com
• Fill in Issuer Details and Badge Expiry
• Click on Criteria
• Choose Activity Completion (or other)
• Choose Activity or Activities
• List requirement of all or one
• Click on message
• Edit it
• Open License.txt and copy and paste into message
• Enable badge so it can be earned!

28. • Moodle Mountain Moot
• mike.agostinelli@montanadigitalacademy.com
• http://bit.ly/badgemotivation
• http://bit.ly/badgeted