 How can I use badges in my Moodle? Administrators or others with appropriate permissions can award site badges to users who complete various tasks. Teachers can award course badges for tasks within courses. These digital badges may be awarded and displayed just in your Moodle site and courses or you can connect to an external badge awarding organisation like Badger so that your users can send and display their badges elsewhere online. Badges are enabled by default but you can disable them from site administration advanced features. You can access the badges settings from site administration badges. Here you can set up a connection to an external backpack and manage these from backpack settings and manage backpacks. As an administrator you can award site badges by clicking Add a new badge, giving it a name and description plus other optional information and uploading a suitably sized image file. Give the issuer details, perhaps yourself or the organisation and when you click to create the badge you can then specify the criteria. You can award the badge manually or select a condition which the user must meet in order to obtain the badge. One example is profile completion where you can specify certain profile fields to be completed. This can encourage students to add extra information to their profile. Teachers within courses can add course badges. When a teacher accesses their course they can add and manage badges from the link in the navigation drawer. They can award badges based on slightly different criteria. For example they can award badges for completing individual activities or a whole course whereas you as admin can award a badge based on a series of courses being completed. To summarise, site and course badges may be manually awarded or automatically awarded depending on activities completed. Badges can be connected to an external backpack.