Create a Badge
To create a badge,
- In Awards, click Course Awards.
- Click Add Award to Course.
- Click Create.
- Enter a name and description for the badge.
- Select the award type “Badge”.
- Select availability settings for whom you want the badge to be available.
- Select “Make this award available to all of my courses” to use it in other courses.
- Select “Make this award available to other award creators and their courses” so other instructors can grant the badge in their courses.
- Select “Restrict award to the course and its child org units” if you only want to use the badge in this course.
- Select “Restrict award to the course and its child org units” if you only want to use the badge in this course.
- Select expiry options.
- Select “Never” if the badge will never expire (such as for passing a course, for perfect attendance, for assignment mastery, etc.)
- Select “Fixed date” if the badge will expire on a specific date (such as for certifications that must be renewed, like First Aid or CPR)
- Select “Relate Day of the Month” if the badge will expire relative to a day it was granted (such as for Student of the Week)
- Select whether or not to notify the student before the badge expires and indicate the number of days of lead time
- Choose an image for the badge.
- Create your own image by clicking “Create your own award image”. This lets you design your own badge icon.
- When done designing, click Download to download the badge. It will be in your Downloads folder. TIP: Rename it so a new badge doesn’t overwrite it if you are making multiple badge images.
- Click “Upload New Icon” to add the image you created to the library.
- Select “From Existing Library” to use one of the images already in the library.
- Select “Upload New Icon” if you have an image to use to add it to the library.
- Ensure the “Use this award in the course now” option is selected.
- Click Save and Close or Save.
- If you get an Edit Award Alert, click OK, then click Save and Close.
