Instructors can optionally enable automatic badge awarding in Canvas courses. Course designers and instructors create badges using the Parchment Digital Badges platform and choose which achievements in the course will award badges.
View Modules
In Course Navigation, click the Modules link.
Students can earn badges by completing module requirements in their enrolled courses. Requirements vary and may include completing assignments, achieving a minimum grade, participating in discussions, meeting prerequisites, engaging with multimedia content, or a combination of these. Students can also view their badge eligibility and track their progress toward meeting module requirements.
Contact your instructor for assistance if you feel that you've completed a module, but the module is not showing as complete.
Access badges in the course
In Canvas, click the Parchment Badges link [1]. To see the badges earned in the course, along with the badges not yet earned, click the Progress link [2]. Students can click on a badge they've earned to download and/or share with social media. To view awards, click the Badges tab [3]. When a student accesses the badges menu in a course, Parchment Digital Badges checks for module completion and will award any new badges the student has earned.
View Leaderboard
If the leaderboard is enabled in the course, students can see their badge earnings compared to other students in the course. Instructors have the ability to let students optionally share their real names or may require that students use nicknames to protect privacy. If nicknames are used, students see their own real name (and animal nickname) on the leaderboard, but only animal nicknames for all of the other students.
How to get badges in modules
Depending on how the course is set up, some instructors may place badges in modules so that they are immediately awarded upon completion of the module. The student will see that Parchment Digital Badges is checking for new badges to award. After updating, the badge will subsequently appear in color with a green checkmark. Keep in mind, the badge will not award if the requirements have not been met, even if the student encounters it in the module.
