Gamify courses and engage students using Badgr Open Badges in Canvas

Gamify Your Canvas Course with Badgr

Badgr is a FREE and easy option for awarding badges in Canvas courses

Recognize achievement and add an element of gamification to Canvas with Badgr Open Badges. Badges are a great way to engage your students with their coursework. Teachers can add Badgr to their courses as an LTI app and set badges to be automatically awarded to students as course modules are completed. Easily track students' movement through the course using the progress page or optional leaderboard.

About This Course

Learn how to set up the Badgr LTI app in Canvas, how to create and award badges in courses and manage the gamified course leaderboard. See how the analytics allow you to track badge usage in courses, badge awards, and badge sharing. Easily track students' movement through the course using the progress page or optional leaderboard. Students are motivated by badges and love showing them off outside the classroom. This course is for anyone who creates or manages Canvas coursework.

Read through each of the pages sequentially to learn about Badgr and Open Badges. Complete any of the optional activities and earn a badge when you've completed the course!

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About Concentric Sky

Badgr is a product of Concentric Sky Links to an external site., an award-winning software firm located in Eugene, Oregon. We design and build mobile, web, and enterprise software solutions for prominent organizations around the world including NASA, the National Science Foundation, Encyclopedia Britannica, and The World Bank. We have deep domain knowledge in the areas of educational product design, scalable technology platforms, and digital credentials.

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