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Creating and Awarding Badges
Creating and Awarding Badges

An overview on how to use Badges

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Written by David South
Updated over a week ago

Badges are a great way to engage users and encourage involvement. These Badges are assigned based on accomplishments within the platform and can be awarded to both users and groups. Badges must be created within a group or department.

Creating Badges

Follow these steps to create a Badge:

  • Manage your group

  • Select the More Tools dropdown and click on Badges

  • Select Create Badge

    A screenshot of the Badges page highlighting the More Tools, Badges and Create Badge buttons
  • Fill out the Badge Name, Description and other necessary fields

    • Pro tip! Navigate to Photo Gallery and Free Icons to find a variety of great icons to use for your badges

  • Click Save

    A screenshot of the Create/Edit a Badge page highlighting the Badge Name, Description and Save fields/buttons

Awarding Badges

Now that you've created Badges, you can either manually award the badge to users or you can use a Completion Rule to automatically award the badge to users.

To manually assign the badge to users, follow these steps:

  • Find the badge you would like to assign to users and click on the More icon

  • Select Manually Award to Users

    A screenshot of the Badges page highlighting the More icon and Manually Award To Users button
  • Paste the list of emails that should receive the badge and click Submit

    A screenshot of the Manually Award to Users page highlighting the Submit button

To automatically assign the badge to users through a Completion Rule, follow these steps:

  • Find the badge you would like to assign to users and click on Completion Rule

    A screenshot of the Badges page highlighting the Completion Rule button
  • Use the drop-down menus to create a Completion Rule so that the Badge will automatically be applied after a User completes a task or gets involved

  • Click Save

    A screenshot of the Completion Rule page highlighting the Save button

Badge Reports

Once you have badges listed in your group, you can pull a report of all of your group’s Badges and who has earned them. To do so, follow these steps:

  • Select the Badges you would like to run a report on and click Generate Report

    A screenshot of the Badges page highlighting the checkboxes for each badge and the Generate Report button

Please contact support@campusgroups.com with any questions.

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