The Awards tool enables instructors to issue badges and certificates to recognize student achievements. Use this tool to reward students and introduce an element of gamification to your course (e.g., reward obtaining a high score, submitting a discussion post, helping classmates). Students are able to share the awards they've received with others outside of D2L using Linkedin.

A library of awards will be available for faculty to use in their courses (Contact an Instructional Designer if you'd like to create a new award). The awards can be issued manually or distributed automatically based on release conditions.

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Add an Award to Your Course

1. On the navbar, click [Collaboration] > [Awards].
   
   
2. Click the [Course Awards] tab and then click the [Add Award to Course] button.
   
   
   
   
3. Select the award(s) that you want to use, then click the [Add] button.
   
   
   
   
4. Click the [Edit Properties] link to add or edit release criteria or credits. If you would like to automate the distribution of the Award, you must add release criteria. 
   
   

Manually Issue an Award

In situations when you wish to issue an award but the release criteria do not apply, you can manually issue awards.

1. From within a course, on the navbar click [Collaboration] → [Awards].
   
   
2. Click on the [Classlist Awards] tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Select one or more students in the Classlist using the [checkboxes].
   
   
   
   
4. Click [Issue].
   
   
   
   
5. This will open the Issue Award page. Choose an Award from the Select an Award drop-down list.
   
   
   
   
6. Under Issue Date, check [Choose Issue Date] to pick a date on when this award is to be issued. You can also backdate it to a past date if needed.
   
   


7. In the Criteria field, enter a reason for granting the award.
   
   
   
   
8. Verify that the correct students are listed under Selected users.
   
   
   
   
9. Click [Issue].
   
   

View the Brightspace Tutorial video: Manually Issue an Award.

Add Release Conditions to an Award

You can add release conditions to an award. This will allow you to automate the distibution of awards as well as release other content to students when they achieve the condition you attached to the original award. 

1. Within the course, on the Navbar click [Collaboration] → [Awards].
   
   
2. Click on the [Course Awards] tab.
   
   
3. On the award, click [Edit Properties].
   
   
   
   
4. Under Release Conditions, click [Create].
   
   
   
5. From the Condition Type drop-down list, select the release condition.
   • See Release Conditions for specific help or watch the Brightspace Tutorial: Add a Release Condition to an Award.
     
     
6. Complete the associated Condition Details.
   
   
7. Click [Create].
   
   
8. Click [Save].