Awarding Badges in Badgr

How to award badges to an individual or to a group, revoke badge awards, and remove a badge from your issuer.

Contents:

• Manually awarding a single badge
• Bulk awarding badges with CSV
• Revoking badges 
• Deleting a badge from your issuer profile

Manually awarding a single badge

1. Login into Badgr.com and select the Issuers tab from the navigation bar at the top of the screen.
2. Select the issuer of the badge you would like to award.
3. Select the Badge you would like to award.
4. Select Award Badge.
   

Badge Award page

1. Enter the recipient name (optional)
2. Enter an email address into the Recipient Information field. The badge will be awarded to this email address.
   • You may also award a badge to a URL or phone number.
3. To send a notification email to the earner, along with a copy of their badge, mark the Notify Recipient by Email checkbox.
4. The issue date automatically selects the current date. You may adjust the date if needed.
5. Enter a Narrative (optional). *
6. Evidence may be included (optional). Select "Add additional evidence." Enter a  description and/or Evidence URL.*
7. Set an Expiration date for your badge (optional).
8. Click the Award Badge button.

*For more instructions see the section below.

Optionally Including a Narrative or Evidence with a Badge Award 

1. For the overall Narrative, you may use Markdown formatting to add more information to the badge.
2. For Evidence Items, each may include an external URL, a narrative, or both. The narrative of each item often is used to describe what is found at the URL so a badge consumer understands what the content is before viewing.
3. Enter information into the appropriate field(s).
4. There is one overall Narrative and as many Evidence items as you wish.
5. Select the Award Badge button to finish the process and award the badge.

View the awarded badge

1. To view the awarded badge, go to the Issuer Detail page.
2. Find the badge under Issuer Badges, then select the badge you wish to view.
3. Select the Awards tab below the badge.
4. To view all recipients select Include Revoked and Expired Badges boxes.
   

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Awarding badges to a group of recipients (in bulk)

Uploading a CSV File

1. Login into Badgr.com and select the Issuers tab from the navigation bar at the top of the screen.
2. Create a new issuer or select the Issuer you would like to award badges for.
3. Select the badge you wish to award. You may also issue a badge to an individual from here.
4. Select the Bulk Award from CSV button.

From here, you may download a Sample CSV file to see how to structure the data.

Use the Sample Template as your guide, your first few times.

1. Email (required)
2. Recipient Name (optional)
3. Narrative (optional)
4. Evidence URL (optional)
5. Issue Date (optional)
6. Expiration Date (optional)

1. Once your file is prepared according to instructions, you may upload it by dragging and dropping your file or you can use the file picker.

2. Select the Next button. 

3. Match the columns in your file to Badgr's system using the drop-down arrows and click the Next button.

   

4. If there are problems with your CSV file, you may be presented with information about how to fix the problem(s).

5. If so, adjust your file following the instructions and re-upload your file.

   

1. Now you are ready to issue the badge to multiple recipients.

2. Be sure to click the Notify Recipients by Email box (if applicable).

3. Be sure to click the Prevent Duplicate Badge Awards box (if applicable).

4. When you are ready, click Finish.
5. You will be returned to the badge detail page where you may view the recent and past Awards from the tab under the Issuer name.

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Revoking Badges in Badgr

1. Click the ISSUERS tab.
2. Select the issuer of the badge you wish to revoke.
3. From the list of badges, select the badge you wish to revoke.
4. Select the "Awards" tab.
5. Click the ellipsis next to the user you wish to revoke the badge from.
6. Click the revoke button and confirm to prevent this recipient from verifying this badge in the future.

Revoking a badge in the Badgr app in Canvas

Sometimes a teacher discovers that a badge awarded automatically for module completion needs to be revoked. Perhaps a student broke the plagiarism code of conduct. Badgr allows teachers to revoke badges in cases such as these.

1. Log into Canvas and navigate to the course where you are a teacher.
2. Alter the student's grade or condition that triggered module completion for the relevant badge so it is not automatically re-awarded to them after you revoke it.
3. Navigate to Badgr via the Badges item in the left-side course navigation menu.
4. Click the Progress tab in the Badgr app.
5. Find the page where the student in question appears or search for the student by name with the search box.
6. For a particular student, click the badge you wish to revoke to open the detail dialog.
7. Click Revoke Badge.
   
   

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Deleting a Badge

1. To delete a badge that has already been awarded, you will first need to revoke the badge from each recipient that it was awarded to. See Revoking badges
2. To delete a badge that has not yet been awarded click DELETE in the right side column.