Open badges
The Open Badges backpack platform, which Learning Manager supports, is being retired. At present, Learning Manager does not support Open Badges.
Open badges is a standard to recognize and verify learning for the learners. You can use these badges to showcase your achievements online.
Learning Manager supports open badges concept for its learners. You can use the downloaded badges as open badges. Each badge that you download has the metadata information that supports the new open badge standard.
Support for Badgr badges
Learners can integrate their learning platform account with their Badgr account. This enables learners to share badges to social websites via their Badgr account. Badgr also offers authenticable badges based on the backpack standard, which means the badges are verified.
Open badges are badges which have some metadata embedded into the badge image. This metadata gives information about the issuer, the recipient, the task achieved, validity of the badge etc. Badgr backpack will be accessible directly from Learning Manager for providing a central place to store all badges and share them. Learners can login to their Badgr account and establish the integration. From then on, badges achieved in Learning Manager get uploaded to Badgr account automatically.
Once the Administrator enables the option Badgr Integration, a learner can then integrate with Badgr and configure his/her badge. To integrate, learner need to login to the Badgr account from Learning Manager.
A Learner must have a Badgr account created before establishing a connection from Learning Manager.
In the Learner app, in Badges page, there is an option called Configure Badgr. If the option is clicked, a dialog will launch, where the status of the connection should be displayed as Connected/Not Connected.
Badge update
A Learner can update his/her badge to the latest badge by selecting the badge and clicking **Update **in the top right section of the page. A badge update happens in case of any changes in Badge image or Badge from the Learning Object by an Admin/Author.
This process of updating the page is called Manual rebake. In this case, the badge gets reuploaded to Badgr backpack after baking is completed even if it has the same badge image/name. After updating the badge, the Learner receives a notification that update is completed.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How to download Badge as learner?
On the badges page, You can download a Badge as an image or in PDF format. Choose a skill or a course, and click either PDF or Badge.