Managing badges

Badges may be managed at the course or site level. (Note that teachers in a course cannot by default access site badges unless they have been given a system role with badge managing capabilities) For information on adding course or site badges, see Using badges

Managing course badges

• If course badges have been enabled in Settings>Site administration>Badges>Badges settings, then a teacher will see a link Settings>Course administration>Badges>Managing badges. This will show a list of badges created and available for allocation, along with actions which may be performed on them:

• • Badge status: Badges may be made available or not by enabling or disabling with the "eye" icon or enable/disable button
  • Criteria : This shows how the badge is awarded
  • Recipients: This shows the number of users awarded the badge
  • Actions: The following actions are available

Note: Availability of enable and disable access actions depends on the current status of a badge (e.g. if a badge is available to users, "disable access" icon will be shown).

Before a badge has been issued to at least one user, all its details and settings can be edited by clicking the "Edit badge" action icon.

Managing site badges

• Badges should be enabled by default in Settings>Site administration>Advanced features and can be managed from Settings>Site administration>Badges>Manage badges. (For information on adding site badges see Using badges

• All existing badges are displayed in a table showing current badge image, name, status, criteria, how many users have already earned this badge and a set of available actions.

The Manage badges screen for site admins

• Other settings are the same as for course badges.

To set up badge criteria, navigate to "Criteria" tab and select a required option. Criteria are added one at a time with additional options available for each criteria.

For example, when a user selects "Manual issue by a role" requirement, they will be prompted to select which roles can award the badge and what rules apply to this requirement.

After criterion is set and added, it will be displayed among current badge criteria.

To edit a body and subject of a message which users get upon earning the badge, go to "Message" tab.

Among additional options here are "Attach badge to message" which allows adding an image file to an email and "Notify badge creator" selector which allows to set frequency of notifications sent to badge creator when this badge is issued to users.

"Recipients" tab displays a list of users who have already earned this badges.

Earning badges

• Once all criteria are set and badge creator is happy with badge details and settings, site users can start earning it. For users to be able to earn a badge, a badge creator/administrator needs to enable access to this badge on a badge overview page or "Manage badges" page (as shown on the picture).

• Normally badges are awarded to users automatically based on their actions in the system. The completion criteria of an active badge are re-calculated every time an event such as completion of a course or activity, or updating user profile happens. If a user has completed all necessary requirements they are issued a badge and sent an email notification.

Only badges with enabled access are available to users and can be earned!

Enabling badge access

Earning a badge

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Badges that have manual award among their criteria can be issued by one user to another. Users who issue a badge must have "moodle/badges:awardbadge" capability. Site administrators can choose their role when issuing a badge.

Important Note: Currently once a badge has been issued it cannot be revoked. So make sure that you are giving a badge to the correct users.