Badges- Introduction

Digital learning badges, so-called "Badges", document certain skills and knowledge of the users. You can actively assign badges to individual users or have them assigned automatically via ILIAS.

Behind a digital badge, there is further information: a description and certain criteria determine when a badge is awarded and how long it is valid.

In ILIAS, there are two types of badges related to courses and groups:

  • Badge awarded by performance (automatic): the badge is awarded automatically when particular objects in the course or group have been successfully worked on.
  • Manually awarded badge (manual): The badge can be awarded manually only within courses/groups (by course/group administrators or tutors to course/group members).

Depending on the learning success settings in the administration, the automatically awarded badge is based on the learning progress or the edited status of an object.

Note: Badges are not available on your learning platform? Then please get in touch with your ILIAS administration.

Settings for learning success in the administration
The automatic awarding of badges is linked to some learning success settings in the administration. If learning progress is activated on your installation, badges are awarded based on different criteria than if learning progress is deactivated.

You want to change the settings for learning successes or learning progress on your installation.

  1. Open Administration - Learning successes - Access statistics and learning progress - Settings tab
  2. Enable tracking - learning progress" option is enabled: The automatic awarding of a badge is based on the learning progress in the course or group. The badge will be awarded automatically if certain learning progress is reached in the course or group.
  3. Option "Activate tracking - learning progress" is not activated:
    A new link, "Edited status," appears in the Settings tab: Instead of Learning Progress, Edited Status automatically awards badges and certificates.
    You can define the respective mode for determining the Edited status for supported object types.

Own badges

View your badges in the learning success

  1. Open Learning Outcomes > Badges.
  2. Open the tab View.
  3. ILIAS will show you your badges if you have already acquired any.
  4. Click on the picture of the badge.
  5. ILIAS displays the badge and shows:
    - Title, Image, Description, Criteria, Received On, and information about the context in which the badge was awarded.
    - If validity were specified, it would also be displayed.
  6. Close the badge with the small x in the upper right corner or click OK in the lower right corner.

Manage badges and add them to your profile

  1. Open Learning Outcomes > Badges.
  2. Open the Manage tab.
  3. Select the corresponding badge and choose "Add to Profile" from the drop-down menu at the end of the line.
    - Alternatively, select Add to Profile from the ▼ menu at the end of the line.
    - Alternatively, you can add the badge to your profile via the Show tab.
  4. ILIAS reports, "The settings have been saved," and adds the badge to your Profile.

Remove badges from your profile

  1. Open Learning Outcomes > Badges.
  2. Open the Manage tab.
  3. Select the corresponding badge and choose Remove from Profile from the drop-down menu at the end of the line.
    - Alternatively, you can expand the ▼ menu at the end of the line and select the entry Remove from the profile.
    - Alternatively, you can remove the badge from your profile via the Show tab.
  4. ILIAS will report "The settings have been saved" and remove the badge from your Profile.