Exploring badges
Badges are a good way of celebrating achievement and showing learning progress. Moodle supports the management of badges, as well as different ways to award badges. Both mechanisms will be dealt with in this section. Moodle badges are fully compatible with Open Badges and can be published in any Open Badges-compatible backpack.
Badges are awarded based on a variety of chosen criteria and will be displayed on a user's profile. The main components and issuing mechanisms of badges are depicted in the following diagram:
A badge has certain properties, such as a name, expiry date, and issuer. Additionally, badges have one or many criteria that have to be fulfilled to trigger it being awarded. Some criteria only exist at the course level, while others exist at the site level. The awarding process itself is usually automatic, with the exception of manual assignment. Alternatively, badges can be awarded via...