Activity 10: Setting up a Moodle Badge

Complete the steps below to add a new badge based on activities completion to your course page.

1. From the course main page select Badges from the course options menu.
   
   

   

   
   
2. Click on the Add new badge button.
   
   

   

   
   
3. Under the Badge details section, add the following information:
   1. Name: Gamification Badge
   2. Version: 1
   3. Language: English
   4. Description: Completion of all course activities.
   5. Image: Upload the badge image found below.
      
      

      

      
      
4. Under the Badge expiry section, you can leave the standard options or set your own expiry date.
5. Click on the Create Badge button.
   
   

   

   
   
6. Now we have to set the criteria for students to be able to earn the badge. The options most suitable are:
   1. Course Completion: We set this up in the previous section and can be chosen if the badge is awarded at the end.
   2. Activity Completion: Only for selected activities, so you can issue multiple badges in the course progress.
   3. Awarded Bages: Dependent on earning a group of badges. For instance, if you have multiple subsections, you can issue badges for subsections and then a final one for the completion of a section.
7. For this example, let's select Activity completion.
   
   

   

   
   
8. Under the Activity completion section, select all the H5P activities.
   
   

   

   
   
9. Under the This criterion is complete when... section select All of the selected activities are complete
   
   

   

   
   
10. Click on the Save button.
11. Now that we have the criteria for the badge, we can enable access to the badge. Click on the Enable access button.
    
    

    

    
    
12. Read the Confirm message and then click on the Continue button.
13. The badge is now available to be earned by students, and you can disable access by clicking on the Disable access button if required.
    
    

    

    
    
14. Go back to the Badges page from the course options menu.
15. Click on the Manage badges button.
    
    

    

    
    
16. The manage badges page will show you the active badges and how many times the badge wase earned.