Badges settings: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:08, 9 May 2017

Individual user settings

A user can manage badges from Navigation>My profile>My badges.
A user can view available course badges from Navigation>Current course>Badges.

Viewing course badges

Viewing the badges of other users

A student can view other students' course badges by going to Navigation>Participants and clicking on the course profile of a chosen user. Badges are visible in the short (course) profile.

Course administration settings

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

Site administration settings

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

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 organization.

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 an external backpack provider such as the Open Badges backpack.

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:

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 ===Enable connection to external backpacks===
-Unfortunately the Persona service used to authenticate with the Open Badges backpack is no longer working - see MDL-57429 for details. Until an alternative authentication with Open Badges backpack is developed, or another external backpack integration is available, it is recommended that site admins consider disabling the connection to external backpacks.
-Existing users with an Open Badges backpack connection will then no longer see external badges from their backpack nor will they have the option to connect to an external account or push badges earned within Moodle to their backpack.
+This should be enabled in order to connect to an external backpack provider such as the [https://backpack.openbadges.org Open Badges backpack].
 ===Enable course badges===

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