Awards

You can create awards that can be shared with other users in other courses or restricted to your course. If you restrict the award, it can only be added to the course offering in which you create the award.

1. To create an award, first go to your course. Click Course Admin and from the Assessments area, select Awards.
2. Click Course Awards and click Add Award to Course.
   
3. Click Create Award.
   
4. Choose the settings for your award. Enter a name and description for the new award. Select an award type from the drop-down list and the appropriate check boxes to indicate if you want the award to be available to the other instructors.
   
5. Select the expiration options for your award:
   • If the award will not expire, select Never. Example: Certificates of merit for passing a course or Badges for perfect attendance
   • If the award will expire on a specific date, select Fixed date. Examples: Certificates for a skills that must be renewed, such as first aid training
   • If the award will expire on a day relative to the day the award was granted, select Relative Day of the Month. Example: Badges for Student of the Week
   • If you want to notify the award recipient before an award expires, select Notify Before Expiry and indicate the number of days of lead time, if necessary
     
6. In the Choose Award Image area, you can choose the icon that represents your badge. You can upload your own icon, or use one of the badges in the Library. If you want to create your own award image, click Create your own award image. You will then be directed to Open Badges, a free website that allows you to create custom icons.
   
7. If you are creating a new certificate, in the Choose Certificate Template area, do one of the following:
   • If the PDF template already exists in the image library, click From the Existing Library.
   • If you want to add a new template to the image library, click Upload New Template.
8. Enter your name and email address under the issuer information.
   
9. Ensure that the Use this award to the current course check box is correctly set.
10.  Click Save. Now you can manually grant your award to students or add release conditions to automatically grant award.
    

Adding release conditions to an award set things up for automatic issuing to students, once they have completed specific tasks or achieved specific goals.

Use these steps to create release conditions for an award.

1. Click Course Admin in your target course, and select Awards (in the Assessment section if viewing by Categories).
2. Click Course Awards.
3. Find the award or which you would like to release conditions, and click Edit Properties.
   
4. Under Release Conditions, click Create.
   
5. From the Condition Type drop-down list, select the release condition you want to apply to the award. You can apply multiple release conditions to an award. Complete the associated Condition Details. Click Create.
   
6. Click Save to apply to release condition to your award.

Issuing awards manually allows you to distribute awards to students throughout the semester, one at a time.

Use these steps to issue a specific award to a specific student:

1. Click Course Admin in your target course, and select Awards (in the Assessment section if viewing by Categories).
2. Click Classlist Awards. Select the students who will be receiving the award. Click Issue.
   
3. Select an award from the drop-down list and enter a reason for granting the award in the Award Criteria field. Click Issue.
   
4. The badge will now appear next to the students in your Class Awards list.
   

To view awards you have issued to students in a specific course, go to Course Admin then Awards (under Assessment if organized by Category).

• Here you will see a list of enrolled students, with any earned course awards listed beside their names.
• Use the dropdown menu to sort the list by students and/or earned awards.
• Select All, Badges, or Certificates to filter the list (option available only if course has multiple awards available).

To remove a specific award from a specific student:

1. Click Course Admin in your target course, and select Awards (in the Assessment section if viewing by Categories).
2. Click Classlist Awards. Select the students for which you want to remove the award. Click Revoke.
   
3. Enter a brief explanation in the Revoke Reason field (required).
4. Click Revoke to complete the process.

Depending on system settings, students may receive a notification indicating their award has been revoked. Moreover, the revoked award is immediately removed from the student’s “My Awards” list.

If you are the creator of an award, you have access to it for use in other courses. You can also make these awards available to other users and their courses by editing the award settings.

To copy other awards between courses, use the Import/Export/Copy Components tool in eLC.