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Award badges to reinforce desired behavior interact with your students on a personalized level.
Badges can be awarded to recognize and encourage students, and they are rapidly becoming the standard in competency-based learning for recognizing and tracking mastery.
Buzz allows for two types of badges:
When badges are awarded to a student, you can review or remove them in the Students grades screen.
Assign automatic completion badges
Automatic completion badges are configured to be automatically awarded to students by Buzz when they complete:
Assign automatically-awarded completion badges to courses
You can choose badges to be automatically awarded to students upon completing a course:
- Open the Editor using the Main Menu.
- In the Tools menu, select Course settings.
- In the Completion badges card, select Choose badge.
- Select the badge(s) you want awarded to students upon completing the course.
- Click Done.
Assign automatically-awarded completion badges to activities or folders
You can choose badges to be automatically awarded to students upon completing an activity or all activities in a folder:
- Open the Editor using the Main Menu.
- Scroll to the desired folder or activity.
- Select the Badges tab in the left panel.
- Select, drag, and drop the badge from the list on the left to the target folder or activity. Students automatically receive the badge upon successfully completing that folder or activity.
You can also set up automatic badges for in Buzz using the Activity editors.
Manually award badges using the Clipboard
Teacher-assigned badges are configured to be assigned by teachers to reward a specific achievement or behavior. Teachers can choose from badges in specific categories (e.g., leadership, scholarship, service, etc.) and provide personalized comments and/or evidence, so students know why they're being recognized.
To manually award badges:
- Open the Clipboard tool from the toolbar or Main Menu.
- Select Badges.
- Add the student(s), Quick Lists, and/or Groups to whom you want to award the badge using the panel on the left (How do I add students to the Clipboard?).
- Select the badge you want to award.
- Enter a brief message in the Badge requirements field, so the recipient(s) know why they're receiving it; this is your chance to personalize the badge for your student(s).
- Click Choose File next to Attach evidence file to browse for and attach a file related to the badge (e.g., a photo of the associated project, the essay or assignment file, a screenshot showing improving performance, etc.,). This is an easy way to tie praise to a concrete achievement for students and show them the thought behind badges.
- Click Award.
Related articles
- How do I create course badges?
- How do I review or remove badges awarded to a student?
- How do I create domain badges?
- How do I use the Clipboard?
Tips
- Students can upload badges awarded after 12/3/15 to external badge managers; direct them to How do I download my badges?
- If enabled in your domain, teachers can also create badges: How do I create course badges?
- To create new domain-wide badges, you need your system admin's help: How do I create domain badges?