Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

The Badge Awarder report plugin allows teachers and managers to view their course students, see which course badges they have been awarded and when, and then easily award more badges with one click!

 

This is a course report which fits into the navigation to standard Moodle course reports.

The Badge Awarder report page with the report filters collapsed, the date for which the report is showing data, two download links, and the table. The table has one user per row with some user details columns, and then a separate column for each course badge. In each badge cell, there is a button to award the badge.

Administration

This section is for the administration of the Badge Awarder report.

Version Support

This plugin is supported for Moodle versions 4.01, 4.02, and 4.03.

Deployment

To install the Badge Awarder report (report_bfbadgeawarder):

  1. Unzip and copy the bfbadgeawarder folder into Moodle’s report/ folder.
  2. Go to Site administration > Notifications to install the report.

 

Further installation instructions can be found on the Installing plugins Moodle documentation page.

Configurations

The configurations for the Badge Awarder report are:

  • Date issued format – How to display the format of the date issued value.
  • Default report start date – Default number of days to use for report start date.
  • Use Badge Images as well – Use Badge Images as well as Badge Titles in the header.
  • Use Badge Images only – Use Badge Images only in header instead of Badge Titles.
  • Enable Badge Awarding – Enable badge awarding link in report.
  • Badge ID ordering – Comma separated string of badge IDs, for ordering the display of these badges.
  • Excluded Badge IDs – Comma separated string of excluded badge IDs, to hide these badges.
  • Show all badges for Admins – Allow the admin to see all badges, including excluded.
  • Enable notifications – Notify users when they are awarded badges.

Capabilities

Capability nameManagerTeacher
report/bfbadgeawarder:view: View Badge Awarder reportsAllowAllow
report/bfbadgeawarder:viewhidden: View excluded badges, when enabled with the showexcludedbadgeidstoadmin setting  

View capability

The capability “report/bfbadgeawarder:view” allows users with the relevant permissions for that context to view the course level Badge Awarder report.

 

This capability is granted by default to these following archetype roles, using course context:

  • Manager
  • Teacher

Viewhidden capability

The capability “report/bfbadgeawarder:viewhidden” allows users with the relevant permissions to view excluded badges, when enabled with the showexcludedbadgeidstoadmin setting.

 

This capability is granted by default to no archetype roles.

Copyright and funding

Initial funding for this plugin was provided by the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University. Joint funding is by Brickfield Education Labs and this plugin has been developed, maintained, and is copyrighted by Brickfield Education Labs.