{"id":921,"date":"2013-04-15T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:52:02","slug":"whats-this-whole-moodle-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/whats-this-whole-moodle-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s This Whole Moodle LMS Badges thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Totara and Moodle badges are pretty awesome. Think of Scouts and the badges that one receives for achievements\/ accomplishments. They are a fantastic way to show exactly how skilled and educated you are.\u00a0 Honestly, how many people out there have a box of certificates packed away that they only pull out when asked to prove something. Online \u201cbackpacks\u201d are given for storing your badges so you can pull it out on your smartphone if asked. however you can also show them on a WordPress blog or on Twitter, and Mozilla offers and issuer insignia to those offering badges to display on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Each badge contains meta data that shows how you obtained the badge and who from it is easy to prove credibility. Definition wise I would say a badge is a digital records to show:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceItemVisualAid mceItemLayer\" style=\"float: left; width: 50%; position: relative; height: 200px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagen1.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-919\" title=\"moodle lms totara badge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagen1.jpg\" alt=\"moodle lms badge\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceItemVisualAid mceItemLayer\" style=\"float: left; width: 50%; position: relative; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 30px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Achievements,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Skills,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Interests,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Affiliations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Roles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Totara<\/a><\/strong> will be able to support Open Badges in May 2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/what-is-moodle\/\">Moodle badges<\/a> will be following soon afterward. You can definitely say that we at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paradiso Solutions<\/a><\/strong> as Totara Partners are super proud and very excited. Moodle and Totara show a huge amount of forward thinking by supporting Open Badges. Between just these two LMS systems Millions of learners around the world are now able to prove skills and achievements. With the success of MOOC\u2019s this will really be awesome for learners who attend Universities or MOOCs from overseas. It hopefully will save a lot of HR people`s time checking references.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And Mozilla offers and issuer insignia to those offering badges to display on their website.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920\" style=\"width: 553px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagen21.png\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-920 \" title=\"moodle lms totara badge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/imagen21.png\" alt=\"moodle lms badge\" width=\"553\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">moodle lms badge<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Who\u2019s using them? Are credible organizations using them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Yes&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Currently the are being used actively by<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mozilla Webmaker<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2249\">Corporation for Public Broadcasting<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">NOAA Planet Stewards<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=3229\">4-H\/USDA<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smithsonianeducationconferences.org\/\">Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cibersociedad.net\/\">Cybersociety Observatory<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Youtopia<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tltc.shu.edu\/badges\/\">Seton Hall University<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Makewaves<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcanyc.org\/association\/pages\/y-mvp\">YMCA of Greater New York<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">NYC Department of Education<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/illinois.edu\/\">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dma.org\/visit\/dma-friends\">Dallas Museum of Art<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">HIVE NYC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetwaterfoundation.com\/\">Sweet Water Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Illinois Online Network<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And Organizations currently building badges will really surprise you&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2247\">NASA<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2246?\">Microsoft<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2762?\">Disney-Pixar<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2244\">Intel and Society for Science and the Public<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=3258?\">UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=2976\">Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/badges-projects.php?id=3213?\">Cybersociety Observatory<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">OpenBadgesUA<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/unimooc.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">UniMOOC aemprende<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginecollege.com\/\">Search Engine College<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Not a bad list&#8230;.and that is just to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Let us know how we can help your organization start offering and recognizing badges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\">ParadisoSolutions.com<\/a> shows how Moodle badges feature works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1B0itPjGzk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totara and Moodle badges are pretty awesome. 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