Badges are virtual symbols of success or achievement that students can earn by accomplishing specific tasks or particular mastering skills within a course or program. Teachers are the only ones who can grant badges to students.
To craft or purchase your first badge, you must first obtain flasks which can be obtained in various ways, such as creating merit incidents related to behaviour, publishing Interactive Assignments, crafting and selling badges on the badges market, or engaging with games available in the SCL Games Center.
After obtaining flasks, you can begin to perform the following actions.
- Click “Gamification” from the left menu, then click “Badge Crafting”.
- Afterwards, you will notice numerous icons available for you to choose from. You can then personalize the badge by adjusting its colours and style according to your preference.
- While crafting a badge, you can make it publicly visible for five more flasks, allowing it to be listed among your school colleagues. This can help reduce the cost of the same badge for other teachers and earn you more flasks each time a teacher purchases your badge.
- Once you craft your desired badge, click “Craft”, and the crafting cost will be deducted from your available flasks.
- Click “Gamification” from the left menu, then click “Badges Market”.
- Upon browsing the market, you will find the listed badges which have been shared by you or your colleagues. If you wish to purchase one, click on “Purchase”. You will notice that all badges in the market have a reduced flask price, and the purchased item will contribute to its creator’s flask account.
- From your Teacher Group’s Action menu, select Badges.
- Choose one or multiple badges from your badges library.
- Afterwards, you can scroll down and choose one or more of your students to whom you want to award the selected badges.
By clicking on the "Select All" button, you can choose all the students in your Teacher Group.
- To send the selected badges to your students, click the “Award badges to the selected student(s)” button.