Site Badge Awarder

Site Badge Awarder

by Pete Richardson -
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I'm investigating the different ways badges may be issued within Moodle.

I disabled course badges followed the suggestion in the FAQ document (http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Badges_FAQ) regarding teachers issuing site badges.

Site Administration for a teacher role does have a Manage Badges page (see png attached) but there is an Add a New Badge button which I didn't expect to see. Can a switch that button off somehow?

I'm sure I followed the instructions but when I click on on the Award Badge icon (or button on Badge Recipients page), I get the following message;

"Your current role assignment is not among the roles that can manually issue this badge. If you would like to see users who have already earned this badge, you can visit Badge recipients page."

Can anyone point me towards where I might have gone wrong?

Thanks,

Pete

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Re: Site Badge Awarder

by Mary Cooch -
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Hi there. Could you explain a bit what you are wanting to do? You say that according to the FAQ you disabled course badges  -where does it say about disabling course badges?  Do you want teachers to be able to award site badges?

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Re: Site Badge Awarder

by Pete Richardson -

Mary,
Apologies, my punctuation and/or grammar let us down there.

What I meant to say was "I disabled course badges AND THEN followed the suggestion in the FAQ document ...."

I was looking into how Moodle might be used to award badges based on an organisational badge scheme/pathway. For that approach, badge creation would need to be centralised (confined to Admin or Manager) but teachers should be able to award them to students.

I'm not saying that's what should happen, teachers having the freedom to make their own badges is a great motivator, but I was wondering if it were possible to combine a course and an organisational badge system within Moodle.

After following the FAQ instructions it seems teachers can see site badges but a) don't seem to be able to award them and b) they still have the ability to create badges even though the course badge permission was disabled.

Is that any clearer?

Thanks

Pete

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Re: Site Badge Awarder

by Mary Cooch -
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Ok - you need to create the new role "site badge awarder" and then give it to a teacher  -and then when  you set up a badge you need to select that it can be awarded manually by (amongst others) a site badge awarder - then they can award it. Perhaps I should make the FAQ a bit clearer actually!

 

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Re: Site Badge Awarder

by Pete Richardson -

Mary,
Well spotted!

I had created a badge and selected 'Teacher' as awarder BEFORE following the FAQ and creating the 'Site Badge Awarder' role.

I've gone back to the badge settings and changed from 'Teacher' to 'Site Badge Awarder' and all works as it should.

Thanks for your help.

Pete

PS One other bit about the FAQ - You say in step 2 'Add it to the System context' which is fine but you don't mention what setting to give for the Role Archetype.

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