{"id":18656,"date":"2022-09-05T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2022-09-05T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:12:18","slug":"brightspace-tip-344-recognize-learner-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-344-recognize-learner-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #344: Recognize Learner Accomplishments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a way to recognize learner accomplishments in your courses? The Awards tool enables instructors to provide merit-based awards to students. Instructors can use the Awards tool to provide students with a reward, in the form of a digital badge, that acknowledges an achievement, whether it is a skill, competency, or completed task.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/bumblebee-bee-insect-flower-7320843\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2022\/07\/14\/09\/07\/bumblebee-7320843_960_720.jpg?resize=480%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bee pollinating a flower\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Christopher Jones, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Washburn University, uses the Awards tool to recognize individual students in his courses. A few years ago, he stopped grading participation and started issuing badges to recognize learner accomplishments instead. A few of the badges he issues to learners in his courses are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bumblebee:<\/strong> Like a bumblebee, you work extremely hard in ways that aren't always appreciated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mantis shrimp:<\/strong> The mantis shrimp has the strongest punch and the widest visual color spectrum in the animal kingdom. Like the mantis shrimp, you see things from a lot of different angles and you aren't afraid to say so.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crow:<\/strong> Crows are highly intelligent and they use their loud voices to stay connected to each other. Like a crow, you share your intellect and insight freely in ways that help others stay connected to the conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this has piqued your interest and you are looking to reward your students for positive behaviors, check out the sample awards in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfChrisMJones\/status\/1561443495478525953\">award badges twitter thread<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we conducted a workshop on how you can use Brightspace Awards to engage learners. In case you missed it, you can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8B43Tor-s2c\">Engage Students Using Awards in Brightspace workshop recording<\/a> at this link.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we have a corresponding \u201c<strong>Awards & Badges<\/strong>\u201d module in the #LearnEverywhereXULA (#LEX) course that you can complete to earn a digital badge for this topic that will count towards your <a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/LearnEverywhereXULA_Advanced_Certification\">#LEX Advanced certification<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Want More Information?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchrepository.ucd.ie\/bitstream\/10197\/9691\/1\/The_Usefulness_of_Digital_Badges_in_Higher_Education__Exploring_t.pdf\">The Usefulness of Digital Badges in Higher Education<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-why-use-gamification-in-your-courses\/\">Why Use Gamification in your Courses?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.brightspace.com\/EN\/le\/awards\/instructor\/about_awards.htm\">Issue Brightspace Awards to Recognize Learner Accomplishments<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/#awards\">Awards Tool How-to's<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Create-a-new-award-1541964491\">Create a New Award<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-237-release-conditions\/\">Brightspace Tip #237: Release Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View all the <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?s=Brightspace+%2Brecap\">Brightspace training recaps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Brightspace:_Instructors_Quick_Start_Tutorial\">Instructors Quick Start Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/All-Release-Notes\">Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/index.php\/Brightspace_Known_Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\">Request a sandbox course<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><br \/>\nYou can find <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.brightspace.com\/EN\/-\/-\/-\/welcome_page.htm\">Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.<br \/>\nJoin the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/\">Brightspace Community<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Brightspace How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/\">Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a title=\"Brightspace FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-faq\/\">Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or <br \/>call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: Are you doing something innovative in Brightspace or perhaps you've discovered a handy tip? Share how you are using Brightspace in your teaching and learning in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-189-educator-share-showcase\/\">The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/bumblebee-bee-insect-flower-7320843\/\">Image<\/a> by Peggychoucair from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a way to recognize learner accomplishments in your courses? The Awards tool enables instructors to provide merit-based awards to students. Instructors can use the Awards tool to provide students with a reward, in the form of a digital badge, that acknowledges an achievement, whether it is a skill, competency, or completed <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-344-recognize-learner-accomplishments\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #344: Recognize Learner Accomplishments\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[376,402],"class_list":{"0":"post-18656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-awards","8":"tag-brightspace","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-4QU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12799,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-61-september-continuous-delivery-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":18656,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #61: September Continuous Delivery Updates","author":"Janice Florent","date":"September 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"D2L (the company that owns Brightspace) uses Continuous Delivery to update our Brightspace system. 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