[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Badges in Sakai/Profile2

[John Bush]

we are about to embark on a certification tool which is common place
in professional training scenarios.  Its basically complete a course
and then you get access to some printable certification that says you
passed the course.  Completion is defined by some set of rules, things
like final grade higher than 75%, grade on specific test, etc, etc.

The plan right now is to possibly leverage conditional release as the
rules engine to what triggers a certification.  The tool would manage
the cert templates and rules associated with certification generation.
 I could see a certification being exposed as a badge down the line.

I think this sounds like a good idea.  I bet OSP folks could think of
all sorts of uses for badges.  I think the key to success of this
would be to keep the rules about what defines unlocking a badge all
under the covers of things that can publish badges.  Which sounds like
what you are thinking.  If you do that, all sorts of stuff could
publish into it.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking about adding badges to Profile2, similar to the badges in foursquare, although it would be academically focused, things like 'I got my first A', '10 connections', or 'Wikimaster' for 100 wiki edits. It would integrate with many of the other tools in Sakai.
>
> You'd be able to see a list of badges you have unlocked, and there would be an info screen for each of your badge unlocks that also showed the date and qualifier for unlocking that badge, if appropriate. For example, if you unlocked the badge 'I got my first A', it would say something like "For assignment 'The History of Sakai' in XYZ class". This would be visible to the badge owner only.
>
> You would also be able to see which of your connections also had unlocked the same badge, but not their qualifiers. Maybe this could be a privacy setting to control it's visibility so that you could also share this.
>
> Profile2 already has the Kudos feature whereby you get a calculated score for using Profile2 lots, this would be an extension.
>
> Chuck alerted me to a project that looks to standardise this (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges), but it may be a while off. Work would not be lost though, the implementation would be swappable for this other Badge project's API. Referring to the diagram about halfway down that page, Sakai would become a badge issuer, Profile2 would display the badge backpack. Then badges from other systems would be visible in Sakai as well.
>
> What do you think?
>
> If this is a goer, would anyone with some graphical design skills be interested in creating some badges?
>
> I'm also interested in what badges we should have. Get back to me with any ideas!
>
> cheers,
> Steve
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