Badges settings

Course administration settings

• A teacher can add and manage badges in their course if the administrator has enabled course badges in Settings>Site administration>Badges settings.
• They will see a link to badges in Settings>Course administration>Badges. where badges may be managed and added.

Site administration settings

• Badges are enabled by default and can be disbled in Settings>Site administration>Advanced features. (Note that disabling the feature once badges have been awarded does not prevent those badges being verifed by external backpacks.)
• The site settings for badges are located in Settings>Site administration>Badges>Badges settings

Default badge issuer

Here you set the name and email address of the issuer. The name will appear where the badges are displayed and might typically be the name of the organisation.

Salt for hashing recipient's email address

If a hash is used (numbers and letters only) then backpack services can confirm a badge earner without exposing their email address.

Enable connection to external backpacks

This should be enabled in order to connect to, for example Mozilla Open Badges. Note that this will not work on a Moodle hosted locally/offline.

Enable course badges

Ticking this box will allow teachers to add and manage badges in their courses.

Badges capabilities

There are a number of capabilities associated with badges:

• Manage global badge settings
• Create or duplicate badges
• Award a badge
• Set up criteria for awarding a badge
• Set up and edit badge details
• Configure badges messages
• Delete badges
• Earn badges
• View and manage your own earned badges
• View badges without earning them