Learners in our organization don't navigate to their transcirpt often. It would be nice to have badges show up in a tile on the Learner Experience Dashboard. It would be a great way to help incentivize learners to complete training and see their accomplishments.
I see this is getting a bit of traction which is great! I stand by the idea of having some sort of ribbon that displays the learners current badges.. maybe even a greyed out version of badges available to show what they're working towards would be cool!
Hopping in here to say that our users would love to see a "game board" like display for their progress. Each person would have their own icon and be "racing" along the path. The more points they earn, the farther they go along the path. It would create a very visual cue and motivator for engagement.
Well, for example, I tried to create competencies that celebrated things like "Completed curriculum early", or "highest percentile of quiz", or first done from their facility/department or for the group "first facility done with annual training". These competencies I try to manually award so that they get a gif as a badge. However, if they can't see their badge on a leaderboard or dashboard it does no good.
A previous LMS (Relias) had interactive badges. Everyone had a shield, and as we earned completions we could choose items to decorate our shield with. The first few completions were small items (like a fill color or a symbol), and as you completed more training, you unlocked higher level items (coats of armor, swords, ivy, etc). These showed right next to each person's profile so that people began seeing other people's cool badges and wanted to create their own. The only way to unlock more decor was to complete more. It was excellent!! Suddenly people with "no computer access" were "suddenly" somehow able to jump on for training.
If it can't be a badge, then having a dashboard tile that shows their peer's progress in cute form may work. I was honestly hoping that was what the Leaderboard would do, but I have not been able to get the leaderboard to truly show accurate levels. People are somehow able to put themselves on the leaderboard. I did a race horse GIF as a badge one time.
I would love to hear some more insights, to better understand how do you think about the learner's engagement and what would be some ways to drive it (other than engaging content). What kind of achievements display would work best in such context?
Apart from badges, as a a way to display a certain competency, is there anything else that could be displayed on the Learner Dashboard, that you'd consider as engagement drivers for the Learners in your organization?
As you may be aware, not all courses award a competency upon their finish, but there are also credits and certificates, that can be collected and are valid within a certain timeframe.
To respond to the admin, it feels inaccurate to describe a badge as a global resource. It's a competency, an achievement, and since Absorb touts its gamification as a feature, then that reward should be something easily seen by the user and help keep them going on their learning journey. I'd like to see this one revisited.
What about allowing badges to show in a billboard? I love that admins can see their own competencies in their dashboard, but lay users are not able to get excited about their competencies and see their badges.
A badge tile on the homepage would be a nice capability.
It would be great if under the "What's Next" area of the dashboard a person who has completed their work or earned a badge could see their badge RIGHT THERE. As it is, badges are hidden in their transcript.
Whether it is a banner dedicated to the earned badges, a billboard that features their earned badges, or in the What's Next slot of the dashboard, an earned badge needs to be seen.
Thank you for your idea. We do not have immediate plans in 2021 nor 2022 to implement thumbnails for global resources.