Simon Coggins

Yes this is an interesting one.

On one hand, we are keen to avoid reimplementing every feature of course and activity completion in badge criteria - if people want more criteria relating to activities or courses it makes sense for them to be added to completion rather than badges. So in this case fixing MDL-40495 would solve the problem.

On the other hand, as Yuliya says in MDL-40755, you may want to issue badges for slightly different criteria to the "completion" criteria. Her example is a good one, maybe the course grade to complete is 50%, but you want to award a "distinction" badge for a grade of 80% or more.

Personally I'm not sure the best way forward with this, interested to hear what people think!

Simon

For anyone looking at implementing badges who might be interested in academic research into best practices, there is a blog post here describing some recent work:

http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/research-design-principles-for-studying.html

Simon

I have created a tracker issue for this here:

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-40551

Simon

Just a note to let you know that we have decommissioned the Totara test site (linked above) now that 2.5 is out. If anyone wants to try badges out they should now use the Moodle demo at:

http://demo.moodle.net/

Thanks,

Simon

Just a note to let you know that we have decommissioned the Totara test site (linked above) now that 2.5 is out. If anyone wants to try badges out they should now use the Moodle demo at:

http://demo.moodle.net/

Thanks,

Simon