-Location FMS Library -Targeted Audience: ALL FMS Teachers -Presenter: Chrissie Flanagan Gamify your classroom using badges. Badges are an important kind of symbol, a shortcut that we use to quickly understand more about the people we meet. Consider police officers, service members, and retail workers; their physical badges represents many hours of informal training, formal education, and official certification. Digital badges provide a similar shortcut to understanding the competencies and achievements of the people we’re teaching, recruiting, and collaborating with online.
Are you looking to gamify your Canvas course? Do you want to award badges to students who complete online learning objectives? This PD session will lead show you how to use badges to reward students who complete tasks assigned in a Canvas course. You will also learn all of the necessary steps needed to create badges in your own courses. Throughout the session, we will discuss gamification to enhance learning as well as share additional ideas to add engage students online. At the end of this PD session, you will be able to add badges to your own course!