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CougarVIEW Guides

This is to see what options are available for designing these guides with CSU.

Overview

Overview of Create an Award: An Award can be created, which includes Badges or Certificates, and can be automatically issued based on release condition criteria or manually awarded.

If you manually add an award, you must specify the criteria required to earn this award. When the award is automatically issued, the release conditions determine if learners meet the criteria.

Overview of Add an Existing Award to a Course: To add an existing award to a course, first, create the award. Then, you must add it to a course to make it visible to learners. You can do this from the 'View Available Awards' tab of the 'Awards' tool or the 'Available Awards' tab of the 'Learner Awards' widget.

Awards

  1. Within the course, do one of the following:
  • Open the Assessments drop-down menu in the navbar and click on the Awards item.

Award menu selection

  • select Course Admin. From the Assessments area, select Awards.
    Course Admin click

  1. Select Add Award to Course.
    Add award to course
  2. Select Create Award.
  3. Enter a name and description for the new award.
  4. Select an award type from the drop-down list.
  5. Select the appropriate check boxes to indicate if you want the award to be available to other award managers, and where it is available within the org structure.
    The Name, Description and Criteria fields of the New Award page
  6. Select the expiry options:
  • If the award will not expire, select Never. Examples of awards that never expire are certificates of merit for passing a course, or badges for perfect attendance.
  • If the award will expire on a specific date, select Fixed date. Examples of awards that will expire on a specific date are certifications for a skill that must be renewed, such as first aid training.
  • If the award will expire on a day relative to the day the award was granted, select Relative Day of the Month. Examples of awards that expire on a relative date are badges for Learner of the Week or for having achieved 100% on a test or assignment.
  1. If you want to notify the award recipient before an award expires, select the check box and indicate the number of days of lead time.
  2. In the Choose Award Image area, do one of the following:
  • If the image already exists in the image library, select From Existing Library.
  • If you want to add a new icon to the image library, select Upload New Icon.
  • To launch the OpenBadges website, select Create your own award image. OpenBadges is a free website that allows you to create custom icons.
  1. If you are creating a new certificate, in the Choose Certificate Template area, do one of the following:
  • If the PDF template already exists in the image library, select From Existing Library.
  • If you want to add a new template to the image library, select Upload New Template.
  1. Verify that the Issuer Information is correct.
  2. Ensure that the Associate this award to the <current course> on creation check box is correctly set.
  3. Select Save.
  1. On the navbar, select the Assessments drop-down menu and choose the Awards option.
  2. Select Add Award to Course.

Add Award

  1. If you want to filter the list to your own awards, select Show only Awards I Created.

Show only award created

  1. Select the awards you want to add from the list.

List of awards

  1. Select Add Award to Course.

Note: Awards can also be copied between courses using Import/Export/Copy Components on the Course Admin page. When copying awards using Import/Export/Copy Components, all associated release conditions are also copied.