This refers to Moodle 3.8 11 from September 2020 2022 onward
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How to use Open Badges within Moodle |
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- The acquisition of badges helps you easily work out who has completed units and thus the whole course, to assess entitlement to credit.
- In Moodle, students can see their badges on their profile. The idea is that badges can motivate students to take part in activities and complete units. Badges can also be exported to external sites such as Mozilla Backpack or LinkedIn to add to an online CV.
For credit bearing modules, Open Badges tend not to be appropriate unless there are competencies to be achieved over and above the module outcomes.
What are badges? See the blog post “The Whats and Whys of Open Badges “in Moodle
How to add a badge to your Moodle module
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You can use any graphics program or go to https://www.openbadges.me/designer.html. The graphic should include some word or phrase that explains what it is: e.g., “Resource collector” or “Sustainability Week 1”, and it should also include the University logo.
Example:
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