You can create awards that can be shared with others in other courses, or have them restricted to the course and its child org units. If you restrict an award, it can only be added to the course offering in which you create the award and any child offerings of that course.
Note: Awards can also be managed and shared with users from the Learner Awards widget. For more information, refer to the Homepage Widget Expansion Pack topic.
Create an award
Awards, which include Badges or Certificates, can be automatically issued based on release condition criteria or can be manually awarded.
If you manually add an award, you must specify the criteria required to earn this award. When the award is automatically issued, the release conditions determine if learners meet the criteria.
Note: To prevent plagiarism and protect an organization's intellectual and branding copyrights, all earned certificates downloaded from the Awards tool are password-protected from editing. Each certificate is generated with a random password that is not displayed to users, preventing anyone from editing the certificate in Adobe® Acrobat® or Adobe Reader®. This makes it unnecessary to manually add password-protection to uploaded certificates.
To create a new award
From your homepage, do one of the following:
On the navbar, click Awards.
Click Course Admin. From the Assessments area, select Awards.
Click the Course Awards tab and select one on more sharing options for your award:
Allow users in this course to share earned awards to an external badge repository/backpack to enable export and sharing of course awards as digital credentials.
Allow users in this course to make earned awards public to enable sharing of course awards as a public link.
Allow users in this course to share awards to LinkedIn to enable sharing of course awards to students 's LinkedIn profiles.
Click Add Award To Course. Figure: Click Add Award To Course to implement your new course award sharing options.
Click Create.
From the New Award page, do the following:
Enter a Name, Criteria and Description for the new award. In the Criteria fields specify what a student must do to achieve this award. Figure: Enter the Name, Description and Criteria of your new award in the New Award page.
From the Award Typedrop-down list, select Badge or Certificate.
In the Availability field, select the appropriate check boxes to indicate if you want the award to be available to other award managers, and where it is available within the org structure.
In the Expiry field, select one of the following options:
To prevent the award from expiring, select Never. Examples of awards that never expire are certificates of merit for passing a course, or badges for perfect attendance.
To set the award to expire on a specific date, select Fixed date. Examples of awards that will expire on a specific date are certifications for a skill that must be renewed, such as first aid training.
To set the award to expire on a day relative to the day the award was granted, select Relative Day of the Month. Examples of awards that expire on a relative date are badges for Learner of the Week or for having achieved 100% on a test or assignment.
To notify the award recipient before an award expires, select the check box and indicate the number of days of lead time.
In the Choose Award Image area, do one of the following:
If the image already exists in the image library, click From Existing Library.
If you want to add a new icon to the image library, click Upload New Icon. Note: For Baked Badges, the only supported format in Brightspace is .png, and the minimum recommended pixel size of the badge is 200 px x 200 px
To launch the OpenBadges website, click Create your own award image. Note: OpenBadges is a free website that allows you to create custom icons.
If you are creating a new certificate, in the Choose Certificate Template area, do one of the following:
If the PDF template already exists in the image library, click From Existing Library.
If you want to add a new template to the image library, click Upload New Template.
Verify that the Issuer Information is correct.
Ensure that the Use this award in <current course> now check box is correctly set.