Mozilla backpack closing down, Badgr in

Mozilla backpack closing down, Badgr in

by Peter Diedrichs -
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According to this article Mozilla Backpack will close down and help their users migrate to Badgr, https://medium.com/read-write-participate/an-update-on-badges-and-backpack-5a06fab252ea

Will Badgr work with Moodle?

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Re: Mozilla backpack closing down, Badgr in

by Mary Cooch -
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Hello. There is a related tracker issue here: MDL-63262

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Re: Mozilla backpack closing down, Badgr in

by Tom Curley -

I have exchanged some emails with someone at Badgr, and they currently have no plan to integrate with Moodle. Badgr has been focusing its efforts on integration with Canvas, instead. Here is the relevant part of the email I got from Badgr:

We don't have any plans to offer an integration for Badgr in the same way we do for Canvas.

However, within the next month we will be offering an LTI integration with our newest product Badgr Pathways a companion app to Badgr. This will allow users to trigger a badge award via the API and see it being tracked in Pathways.
Here is a 

 and an article] for Pathways.
Pathways is free to use up to 100 users, the costs $1 per user, per year.

We also offer a full featured API for organizations with the resources and ability to use.