Simon Coggins

Hi William,

There are actually a couple more criteria - it's just that some criteria are only available to "site" badges and others only available for "course" badges.

If you look at the badges menu within a course (Course admin > Badges) you can create badges based on activity completion - so you should be able to do what you want already.

Creating new criteria types is relatively straightforward but does require a developer.

I agree about adding the profile image to the profile completion criteria. It was something we wanted to do but didn't get to it for the first version.

Simon

As I said above, backporting to 2.4 (or earlier) wouldn't be that hard for a developer, in fact we have already done it to allow us to put Open Badges into Totara 2.4.

I wouldn't suggest modifying the code to be a Moodle plugin, you'd need to make quite a few changes to things like language strings (which are scatters all through the code) and they undo them when you move to 2.5 in the summer.

Simon

Hi Mary,

Yes you are right there is a bit of an issue here. If you set up an external backpack connection you are able to say which badges you want to display in Moodle. Since you are explicitly choosing to share those badges they appear on your profile automatically.

On the other hand we originally didn't want to automatically push badges earnt on the site straight to the profile, in order to give the user control over what was shared. So as of right now new "internal" badges are hidden from the profile by default, and must be explicitly shared to be visible.

We have subsequently realised what you say (about it requiring an extra step that people may not remember to do), so as part of some improvements to the backpack connection we've added a user setting - "Automatically show badges I earn on my profile page" which we've enabled by default. That means that:

• New badges earned from the site will appear on a user's profile by default
• They can still choose to hide individually badges (on their My Badges) page
• If they want they can have new badges default to hidden, and only show the ones the want to (by making them visible on their My Badges page).

Hopefully that addresses your point but still gives the users control over their how they show their badges.

The patch that includes this change is awaiting review here:

https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-39063

We are hopeful it will make it into 2.5.0, if not it will be in 2.5.1.

Simon

I'm pleased to report that Open Badges has been integrated into Moodle in time for the 2.5 release (the next major release).

Now that it is part of core Moodle it has it's own discussion forum:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=8085

So I'd encourage you to subscribe and post any new questions or ideas there.

Simon