Your students can now earn externally supported Badges through their Activities/Achievements in the Skillable TMS. This will give your Users an additional sense of accomplishment, and they will be able to share that accomplishment with others outside the TMS.
Create Badges
You create the badges in the external badge provider and attach them to achievements you have created in the Skillable TMS. This feature has the following components:
Badge Provider - a repository to distribute badges. This is a third-party vendor that will issue the badge to the user. Currently the TMS only supports badges from Credly/Acclaim.
Badge - the token given by a Badge Provider to a student to share based on the achievement earned.
Achievement - the criteria needed to earn the badge. An achievement is given to users who complete a specific task(s) in the TMS. When the achievement is earned, the badge associated with it is issued.
Associate Badges with Achievements
The process to create badges and associate them to achievements has four steps. The first one is completed in the Badge Provider’s system. The final three steps are inside the TMS:
Create your badge templates.
Create a Badge Provider
Create a Badge
For more information about creating Badges and Badge Providers, read the following articles.
Badges are digital credential for completing a class or a course which can be assigned manually on the class roster or course assignment. When paired with an Achievement the badge can be automatically triggered by a set of actions such as completing a course or launching a lab. Badges are provided through Credly/Acclaim and can be shared on social media or as email signatures.
Activities are configured in the instructions editor and represented in the lab instructions by a replacement token. Activities fall into two broad categories: Questions and Automated.
- Questions are multiple choice or short answer questions.
- Automated Activities interact with the lab environment (Virtual Machine/Container/Cloud Platform).
Achievements are a feature to recognize an accomplishment with the TMS. An achievement is automatically triggered by an action being completed in the platform, such as, a user launched a lab, completed a lab, completed a course or a set of courses. An achievement can be associated with a badge so that the badge is automatically assigned when the task is completed.
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