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Blackboard Achievements Tool: What and Why?

The Blackboard Learn 9.1 Achievements Tool is a powerful badging and certificate tool for awarding digital badges to students/learners in the context of an LMS. Using the Mozilla Open Badge system, it can be used within the LMS in courses or integrate with the Mozilla Backpack.

This video provides an overview of the Blackboard Achievement Tool features and its links to Mozilla Openbadge.

Blackboard Achievements Tool

Many of the concepts, functionalities and strategies in this video are discussed with some standardized vocabulary you can explore in the next few sections of this course.

This mini-course is primarily focused on providing Blackboard Learn experienced and casual users the necessary pedagogical and technical knowledge to constructively and successfully deploy this tool in their online, face to face, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses. This is why you will see a bit more in depth instruction and resources for the Blackboard users. However, the concepts you discovered in the video are much larger than Blackboard Learn.

Do I need to be a Blackboard Learn user to benefit from this course?

Even though the Blackboard LMS displays its badges within the course, learners can also open a Mozilla Backback space and display their earned badges publically. They can also put them in their LinkedIn profiles or other social web venues. So the fact that the badges are awarded in Blackboard is not the end of their usefulness.

Digital badge tools are integrated into many Learning Management Systems(LMS), for example Moodle and Canvas, but they are also generated, awarded, and displayed in web environments that are not connected to an LMS at all. For this reason, it will be instructive to all to see how they work in the LMS and outside the LMS. All can benefit from exploring the pedagogy and philosophy behind their use as alternative credentialing, the strategic use of them in gamified course design, and processes involved in creating, deploying, displaying and constructively integrating into the academic and training activities. With a solid understanding of the Best Practices for Blackboard 9.1 Achievements Tool, learners who complete this mini-course will also be able to transfer this rich background knowledge to their own educational or training setting.

How can I use what I learn in this course?

My intent is to provide you with the necessary skills and resources to successfully transfer and apply these best practices for Blackboard Achievements to another LMS, your classroom, your training sessions or any other setting where digital badges would be an advisable next step.

You will learn what digital badges are, how to make them, where to display them, and the pedagogy and best practices of integrating them into your teaching and learning activities.

What to do next?

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Good luck!