View and manage awards tool in myCourses
View awards in the awards leaderboard widget
The Awards Leaderboard is a widget that can be added to your Course Home page. See the Customize your Course Home Page with Widgets in myCourses article for how to add new widgets to your course. The Awards Leaderboard shows the ten students who have earned the most badges in your course, which can encourage friendly competition between classmates.
Select the downward arrow beside the widget title to access these settings:
Customize this widget: choose to sort the Leaderboard by Number of Awards (recommended) or Credits.
Style this widget: customize or remove the Leaderboard title.
The Awards Leaderboard will sort students with the same number of awards by name in alphabetical order. If no awards have been granted yet, then the Awards Leaderboard will be empty.
View awards in a classlist
You can view the awards that you've granted for all students in the classlist for a course.
Add the Awards tool to your Navigation Bar, or navigate to Course Admin and select Awards under the Assessment heading.
Select the Classlist Awards tab.
You can filter the list by name, or by students with the most or least awards.
In the Classlist Awards tab, you can also select the checkbox beside student names to manually Issue or Revoke specific awards.
Hide an award from students
You have the option to hide awards from students until they have earned them. In this case, the award will not be visible in their View Available Awards tab until they receive the badge or certificate.
Add the Awards tool to your Navigation Bar, or navigate to Course Admin and select Awards under the Assessment heading.
Select the Course Awards tab.
Locate a particular award and click Edit Properties.
Select the Award hidden until earned check box.
Click Save.
Add release conditions to an award
You can add release conditions to an award and release other content or another award to learners when they achieve the award requirement that you define.
Add the Awards tool to your Navigation Bar, or navigate to Course Admin and select Awards under the Assessment heading.
Select the Course Awards tab.
Locate a particular award and click Edit Properties.
Click Create under the Release Conditions heading.
Select a release condition from the Condition Type dropdown menu.
Complete the associated Condition Details.
Click Create.
Click Save.
Learn more:
Add a release condition to an award (Brightspace Youtube video)
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