Important Note: Academic badges and co-curricular badges awarded by UNF and its colleges will use the Canvas Credentials platform after approval by the UNF Digital Badging Steering Committee. Please refer to our support article on Canvas Credentials for more information.
What are Canvas Badges?
Canvas Badges (formerly Badgr) is a free and open-source platform for issuing digital badges, or microcredentials. A digital badge is a visual symbol of accomplishment. Badges can be awarded for any definable achievement and earned in many learning environments, games or the workplace. Canvas offers two different badging frameworks: Canvas Badges Basic and Canvas Credentials. Both instances award badges based on predefined earning criteria. Badges are earned and awarded when specified requirements are met at the course, department, or school/college/unit level.
Canvas Badges Basic is available to be used with individual courses as a motivational/gamification tool to promote student engagement and participation. Basic badges are created and issued by the course instructor.
From the Publisher
The good folks at Canvas Badges strive to regularly improve the overall functionality of the Canvas Badges app and add new and useful features for users. Canvas Badges offers free LTI versions 1.1 and 1.3 for Canvas LMS users that can be upgraded with a Canvas Credentials membership. Canvas Badges offers a full-featured API you can connect with for easy badge awarding.
Features
Notable features of Canvas Badges Basic include:
- Used with individual courses as a motivational/gamification tool to promote student engagement
- A course leaderboard can be incorporated to further encourage student participation
- Badges are awarded automatically based on pre-defined criteria
- Badges can be shared on social media
- Badges can have a set expiration date
- Issuers can award badges in bulk (limit 50 per CSV file)
- Quick LTI setup in Canvas
LMS Integration
Canvas Badges Basic is available to be used with all courses for the purpose of enhancing student engagement and participation. Instructors can reach out to CIRT via email (cirtlab@unf.edu) to request that Canvas Badges be installed in a course.
Note: Proposals for academic or co-curricular badges to be awarded by UNF and its colleges must be submitted to the UNF Digital Badging Steering Committee for approval.
Useful Links
The official Canvas Guides hosts a variety of articles on Canvas Badges. Here are a few of the most popular topics:
In addition to the Canvas Guides, CIRT has created the following support documents related to this app:
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Support Docs
Supplementary to Canvas’ Official Support Center, CIRT has created the following support documents related to this app:
