Checklist for badging in Canvas courses

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Contents:

• Beginning badging in Canvas #beginning
• Best practices #bestpractices
• Troubleshooting #troubleshooting

Beginning badging in Canvas

If you are outside the U.S., please ensure you are using your regional server (Australia, Canada or Europe). You will need to get your consumer key and shared secret from the appropriate server to install the app.

Add the Badgr LTI to Canvas

• Most Canvas URLs are automatically pre-authorized — If it's not pre-authorized, Badgr will prompt you to request
• Add the Badgr LTI to Canvas

Set up Badgr in courses

• Enroll as a teacher in the course as module completion requirements may be tied to grades, which only teachers can access
• Publish the course and modules (see Instructure's How do I create a module?)
• Add module completion requirements (see Instructure's How do I add requirements to a module? ; see also the image below

If you used your Canvas email to create your Badgr account, you'll find your Badgr issuer(s) and badge(s) available in Canvas. However, issuers and badges can also be created in Canvas without a Badgr account.

• Create an issuer and Badges
• How to create an issuer in Badgr Creating an issuer in Badgr
• How to create badges in Badgr

OR

• How to create an issuer and badges in Canvas
• Assign badges to modules to award upon module completion
• Trigger badge awards once the course begins

Module completion requirements trigger badge awards and must be assigned to each module for which you wish to award a badge. Teacher and student roles interact best with Badgr. Custom roles are not supported.

Take note:

• Badgr will not award badges when using the Canvas "test student" feature as a teacher. Badgr must have access to an email address to award badges.
• Currently, Badgr does not work with Blueprinted courses. Teachers will need to select the default issuer and assign badges to modules in each course.

Best practices

Triggering badges

For badges to be awarded, a badge check must be triggered from the Badges Progress page. For very large courses, such as a MOOC, we recommend triggering badges daily using the CSV export method.

Adding a badge to a module as an external tool

By adding a badge as an external tool within the module, students will be able to claim the badge while progressing through a module. This will alleviate the need to trigger badge awards from the Badges Progress page because students will be able to claim their badge within the module.

Troubleshooting

Below are listed some common issues when beginning badging in a Canvas course. If you're experiencing any of these issues, please take a look at the troubleshooting articles listed.

• If you encounter the error "Authentication failed" you may have entered the consumer key and shared secret incorrectly
• If one or more students completed the module and have not received their badge:
• You may need to trigger a badge check
• You may need to review your module completion requirements
• Badgr may be unable to access student emails
• You can review our article about unexpected badge awards
• If a student has not completed the requirements but has earned the badge:
• You may need to review your module completion requirements
• You can review our article about unexpected badge awards

If you continue to experience difficulty after trying our troubleshooting steps, you can contact us at Support@Badgr.com for help. Please include:

1. A detailed description of your issue, including what steps you have already taken and a screenshot if you have encountered an error.
2. Screenshot of the module you are having difficulty with
3. Screenshot of the completion requirements for that module
4. Screenshot of the progress page including a student who has completed the requirements but not earned the badge
5. Course URL (found by selecting the Canvas course you're experiencing the issue in and copying the URL from your browser's address bar)