{"id":1770,"date":"2020-01-24T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:05:20","slug":"badging-in-canvas-a-quick-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/2020\/01\/24\/badging-in-canvas-a-quick-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Badging In Canvas: A Quick Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings FAU Family!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the third week of the Spring 2020 term.\u00a0 We&#8217;d like to take a moment to share this post regarding the use of Badging in Canvas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Badging<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Badgr <\/strong>is an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openbadges.org\/get-started\/understanding-badges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMS-certified Open Badging platform<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Over 15 million Open Badges having been awarded to students in K12 schools, RTOs, and universities and professionals in the corporate world. <strong>Badges<\/strong> are a simple way to incentivize and track students\u2019 mastery as they move through their course curricula.<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1782 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-768x713.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-1024x950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-530x492.jpg 530w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-130x121.jpg 130w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/logo.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At FAU, <strong>Badgr<\/strong> connects with Canvas automatically to award badges to students as they complete their work. Open Badges issued through Canvas can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide students with a unique way of showcasing and online representations of skills and achievements on their public profile.<\/li>\n<li>Be leveraged with your staff and students to increase engagement; and<\/li>\n<li>Introduce gamification to your course, enhancing course aesthetics\/learning experiences for students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">4 Step Setup<\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Create modules for your course content.<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1809\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface.png 1255w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-1024x701.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-530x363.png 530w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-130x89.png 130w, https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/01\/interface-150x103.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Badgr uses modules to aware badges. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-13129-415241424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create modules<\/a><\/strong> that allocate and organize course content and learning goals. Then <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-12689-415241427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add content to them<\/a><\/strong> and define any <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-13092-415241433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-requisite modules<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-13134-415261967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requirements for their completion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Include the <strong>Badges<\/strong> link in your Course Navigation Menu.\n<ul>\n<li>By default, the\u00a0<strong>Badges<\/strong>\u00a0link is included in every course. However, if you do not see it, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-12933-415257079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add it to your course&#8217;s course navigation menu.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Select or create an Issuer.\n<ul>\n<li>Upon clicking the\u00a0<strong>Badges<\/strong> link for the first time in a course, you&#8217;ll be asked to select or create a badge Issuer for this course. This is an account that gets associated with your course and stores any badges created under the account.<\/li>\n<li>You can create new Issuers for different courses so that your badges are organized into their respective course materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Define Badges for each module.\n<ul>\n<li>After choosing an Issuer, Badgr displays the modules of your course along with drop-down menus to create or select their corresponding badges.<\/li>\n<li>When creating a new badge, you have the option of uploading an image or using the built-in badge studio to make one on the fly.<\/li>\n<li>When your students click on\u00a0<strong>Badges<\/strong> in your course, they will see the Badges they have obtained alongside the ones available for the course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more information or support, please <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techevents.fau.edu\/appointments\/LMS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to book a 1-1 session<\/a><\/strong> with any of our Training team members.\u00a0We encourage you to activate and use Badges as an enhanced learning tool. Also, be sure to check out the video below for a video from Badgr for a visual aid on how to set it up in your course(s):<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto;width: 75%\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCjw8ejuqbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings FAU Family! Welcome to the third week of the Spring 2020 term.\u00a0 We&#8217;d like to take a moment to share this post regarding the use of Badging in Canvas. &nbsp; Badging Badgr is an\u00a0IMS-certified Open Badging platform.\u00a0Over 15 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.fau.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}