Moodle Open Badges - Staff
Moodle Tutor apple badge (requires student nomination)
Awarded to recognise high quality of Moodle course provision by a lecturer.
Students will be asked to nominate a member of staff for this award in June
every year. Votes will be cast and tracked through Moodle.
iTutor badge (requires student nomination)
Awarded to recognise the best use of e-learning technology in the classroom
by a lecturer. Students will be asked to nominate a member of staff for this
award in June every year. Votes will be cast and tracked through Moodle.
Exemplar
Moodle Tutor – best practice mini-badge
To be awarded by the e-learning team in recognition of a newly created
Moodle course which highlights best practice.
 Creating a new Moodle course in general compliance with Moodle
guidelines issued by the e-learning team
 By incorporating innovative use of assessments or resources
Planner, Creator and Facilitator open badges to be awarded as the result
of Moodle reports identifying completion of each badge level on a
monthly basis.
Facilitator
Moodle Tutor – personalisation mini-badge
 Personalising your ‘My Moodle’ space
 Add a file to your ‘My private files’ area
Moodle Tutor – assessment submission mini-badge
 Setting up an assignment (Standard or Turnitin)
 Providing student feedback through Moodle
 Creating a quiz and adding questions
Moodle Tutor – progression tracker mini-badge
 Activating completion status tracking
 Marking manual progression activity as complete
Creator
Moodle Tutor – activities mini-badge
 Creating a discussion forum
 Replying within a discussion forum
 Adding other relevant activities
 Adding a game
Moodle Tutor – resource creator mini-badge
 Adding a new document or editing an existing document
(Word/Powerpoint etc.)
 Adding a link to an external URL into a Moodle course
 Embedding a video
 Setting conditional activities/topics (i.e. setting a reveal date or
prerequisite completion activity)
Planner
Moodle Tutor Profile mini-badge
 Adding a picture (or avatar) to your profile
 Writing an appropriate personal profile (description field is completed)
Moodle Tutor Course setting mini-badge
 Adding headings to your course
 Inserting a label with text or image
 Adding or removing topics to required number
 Hiding and showing topics and/or resources