Research Guides: Student Quick Start: Badges

Overview

Badges are digital awards that show you have completed a task, learned a skill, or reached a goal. You can earn badges in online courses and store them in a badge backpack to keep track of your achievements. Badges include details like what you did, who gave the badge, and when you earned it. They are helpful because they:

Show your skills and learning
Help you track progress
Motivate you to reach goals
Can be shared on LinkedIn, résumés, or portfolios

In order to share earned Moodle Badges on social media and other services, Badges should be transferred to a learner's own personal portfolio or digital backpack. The guides below describe ways of transferring earned badges to both integrated and 3rd-party digital backpacks.

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How To

Moodle is integrated with Badgr, the original backpack solution. The following describes how to add Moodle Badges to a Badgr portfolio.

Sign up for Badgr:

Go to https://badgr.com.
Click Sign Up.
Create an account using your personal email address and a password. Do not use your Brandeis email.
Important: Do not use Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or other social sign-ins—Moodle requires a manual login using email and password.
Verify your email address by clicking the link in the message sent by Badgr.

Add your Badgr credentials to Moodle:

Log into Moodle Communities.
Open Preferences in Moodle: In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or name, then select Preferences.
Access Backpack Settings: From the Preferences page, click on Backpack settings.
Select Backpack Provider: In the dropdown menu, choose Badgr.io as your backpack provider.
Enter Badgr Credentials: Enter the email address and password associated with your Badgr account.
Save and Connect: Click Save or Connect to begin the connection process.
Verify Your Email: Check your email for a verification message from Badgr. Click the link in the email to confirm and verify your account.
Check Connection Status: Return to Moodle and ensure the backpack is now listed as connected.

Select Preferences to access Badge settings. Line Breaks

Access the Moodle Badge Settings — Select Backpack Settings

Connect backpack settings in Moodle — Select Badgr, then enter your email and password.
Select Connect to Backpack

Backpack connected with badgr settings — The settings show the badges are connected to a badgr backpack

Add Badges to Your External Backpack

Return to the Moodle Preferences page and select Manage badges.

Select Manage Badges.
On the next screen, locate the badge you want to transfer. Select the backpack icon beneath the badge to Add to Backpack.

Select the Backpack Icon to add to your Badgr Backpack.
Confirm transfer. This action will transfer the selected badge to your external backpack.

You will see the Badges in the Badgr Backpack.

It is possible that a learner may already have digital badges in another external digital backpack solution. Using Credly as an example, the following instructions outline how to download Moodle Badges and upload them to a non-integrated backpack solution.

To add a Moodle badge to your Credly profile, you'll need to use Credly's "Add badge from another provider" feature and upload the badge file.

Download the badge. Visit the My Badges page in Moodle Communities and download any badges you'd like to connect. Community Badges.
Access your Credly Profile:
Log in to your Credly account and navigate to your profile page. Sign up for Credly.
Add the Badge: Choose "Add badge from another provider": Select the Upload Credential link and select the .png file you downloaded from Moodle.
Adding a badge to this digital backpack provider will allow you to share the badge on Social Media sites such as LinkedIn.

Settings to upload a badge that has been downloaded to Credly — Select "Add badge from another provider"

Options to add a badge from another provider to a Credly backpack. — Select the Upload Credential link and select the .png file you downloaded from Moodle

Credly Badge Wallet showing unverified badges from Brandeis — Brandeis badges have "Unverified" status labels.

If you've earned a badge in Moodle, you can proudly display it on your LinkedIn profile. Follow these steps below to share your achievement.

Download or Copy the Badge Link

Option 1: Download the Badge image that is sent to your email.

Open the email sent from Brandeis Badge Management
Download the badge to save it on your device.

Option 2: Download the Badge from Moodle

Log in to Moodle.
Go to your profile by clicking your name or picture in the top right corner.
Select "Badges" from your profile menu.
Click the badge you want to share.
On the badge page, you'll see:

A download option to save the badge image.
A public link (if available) to share the badge.

Add the Badge to LinkedIn

Log in to your LinkedIn account.
At the top of the page, select the "Me" tab (under your profile picture), then choose "View Profile" from the dropdown menu.
On your profile page, select the "Add profile section" button near the top.
In the menu that appears, select "Recommended", then choose "Add licenses & certifications."
A form will appear. Fill it out using the information from your badge in Moodle:
- Name: Enter the name of the badge. You can find this in the Badge details section of the badge page in Moodle.
- Issuing Organization: Type Brandeis University and select it from the list when it appears.
- Issue Date: Choose the month and year shown in the Badge expiry section in Moodle.
- Expiration: If there is no expiration date (this is common), you can leave this blank.
- Credential ID: You can leave this blank.
- Credential URL: Paste the public badge link you copied earlier from Moodle.
- Media: You can add the image you downloaded from Moodle.
Click Save to add the badge to your profile.