Badgr

Badgr

Badgr is an open source achievement recognition and tracking system that allows organizations to define achievements, issue badges, and manage badge earners. It provides a visual way to display skills and achievements.
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Badgr: Open Source Achievement Recognition and Tracking System

An open source achievement recognition and tracking system for defining achievements, issuing badges, and managing badge earners, with a visual display of skills and achievements.

What is Badgr?

Badgr is an open-source achievement recognition and tracking system used by organizations and individuals to define achievements, issue recognition in the form of digital badges, and manage access and display of badges earned. Some key features of Badgr include:

- Open source platform that can be self-hosted or used as a SaaS solution

- Graphical badge designer to create custom achievement badges

- Issue blockchain-secured digital badges with metadata and evidence URLs

- Public badge earner profiles and badge collections (backpacks)

- API access to integrate with other systems

- Granular permissions and roles for badge issuers and earners

- Supports importing badges from other providers

- Extensive usage reporting and analytics

Badgr provides a flexible way for organizations, schools, companies and associations to recognize achievements, competencies, skills and learning outcomes through digital badge issuance and tracking. The open source model allows customization and integration into existing infrastructure.

Badgr Features

Features

  1. Issuing Open Badges
  2. Badge designer
  3. Criteria and Evidence
  4. Badge management
  5. Learner profiles
  6. Integrations

Pricing

  • Open Source
  • Freemium
  • Custom Pricing

Pros

Open source and free

Visual representation of skills

Promotes motivation through gamification

Customizable and flexible

Interoperable badges

Cons

Potential misuse of badges

Technical complexity for non-technical users

Limited analytics and reporting

Less popular than some proprietary systems

Requires learner buy-in


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