Before enabling a Leaderboard, an instructor must first configure Canvas Badges to automatically award badges in the course.
What is a course Leaderboard?
Canvas Badges's course Leaderboard is a privacy-aware method of allowing students to track each other's progress through a Canvas course learning pathway – adding an element of gamification to their learning. The leaderboard scrolls and paginates through the full list of students and course objectives.
Enabling the Canvas Badges course Leaderboard in Canvas
Once enabled, instructors and students will be able to access the Leaderboard, showing course progress sorted by which students have earned the most badges. Teachers can view students' real names, but students will only see the randomly-generated animal nicknames for each other by default.
Instructors who have the Canvas Badges app in their courses have a Leaderboard tab. The Leaderboard is disabled by default, but instructors can enable it for their course by checking Enable Leaderboard.
Instructor's Leaderboard view Here is what the Leaderboard looks like in Canvas for an instructor. Instructors also have access to an Objectives tab (students do not). Note that each student's real name is listed above their nickname.