Parchment Digital Badges: How to assign Badges for General Education Courses

How do instructors setup and assign General Education badges in their Blackboard course?

This process only applies to YSU General Education Microcredential courses.

Blackboard Course Folder - General Education Badges

• The folder "General Education Badges" will be added to all YSU courses that are part of the General Education Microcredential offerings. Please do not delete this folder and containing modules. 
  
  
   
• Instructors are not required to create an account with Parchment Digital Badges. Assigning the grade in the Badge Completion Assignment triggers the badge assignment in Parchment Digital Badges. 
   
• The folder contains the following modules:
   
  • Student Account Creation Process - KB Article outlining how students create an account and access their earned badges.
  • Instructor Access and Badge Assignment Process (this article)
  • Credentials - Link to Parchment Digital Badges LTI integration.
  • Badge Completion Assignment - Hidden Assignment used as a trigger to assign badges to students who pass the course.
     

Badge Completion Assignment

• At the end of the semester, verify the Final Grade column in the Blackboard Gradebook has been filled out accurately for each student before continuing. 
   
• If a student COMPLETED the course with a passing Final Grade, Enter a "0" in the grade column to trigger the automated badge assignment. 
• If a student HAS NOT PASSED the course, do not enter any score in the Badge Complation Assignment. 
  
  
   
• The badge will be assigned to each student next time the Blackboard course and Parchment Digital Badges sync (automatically a few times a day). If you need to force a sync, click on the Credentials Module and click the Update Now link in the middle of the screen.