Instructor: Awards

Find the Awards tool within Course Admin.

1. Select Course Admin from your course navbar.

    

2. Select Awards.

The D2L Awards tool enables instructors to grant digital badges or certificates.

There are two types of Awards that an instructor can issue to a student:

• Badges: digital markers that represent the accomplishments based on criteria determined by the instructor of the course. 
• Certificates: certificate in PDF form also awarded based on criteria determined by the instructor of the course. 

To create awards:

1. Select Course Awards.
2. Select Add Award to Course. 

    

3. Select Create. 

    

4. Enter the new award Name and a Description. 
5. Enter the Criteria for demonstrating achievement and receiving the award (see also note after step 12). Release conditions can be used to automatically issue the award to learners who meet the criteria.

    

6. Choose whether to create a Badge or a Certificate. 

    

7. Set the Availability for your award. 

    

8. Choose an image for your award. You can Create your own award image or upload an icon from the online library or your computer. 

    

9. If you are creating a new Certificate, you will have an additional option under Choose Certificate Template: to use an already existing PDF template, click From Existing Library. To add a new template to the image library, click Upload New Template.  

    

10. Enter the Issuer Information. This information will display in the awards details when issuing the award. 
    • Issuer Name: Enter the name of the person issuing the award.
    • Issuer URL: You can use your course URL or the University of Arizona D2L URL: https://d2l.arizona.edu/ .
    • Issuer Contact: Enter issuer's email address. 

       

11. Make sure that the Use this award now check box is selected if you want to use it in the course site you are creating the award in.
12. Select Save and Close.

Note: The addition of Criteria to the awards will be displayed in the Public Award version that is shared out to others: 

Awards can be added or removed from any course you create.

1. Select Course Awards.
2. Select Add Award to Course. 

    

3. Check the box to the left of the award(s) you wish to add. 
4. Select Add. 

    

Make changes to existing awards or certificates.

1. Select Course Awards.

    

2. Search for the Award you want to edit, and under the award image, click Edit Award.
3. Make necessary edits, and click Save.

Note: Changes made to an award will apply to all instances of this award including those who have already been issued the award.

Release Conditions allow you to automatically award students for meeting set criteria.

1. Select Course Awards.

    

2. Search for the Award you want to add a release condition to, and select Edit Properties.
3. Under Release Conditions, click Create. 

    

4. After creating your release conditions, select Save.

Manually issue or revoke student awards.

To manually issue an award:

1. In Classlist Awards, select the students you want to issue awards to using the checkbox by their names.
2. Click the Issue button. 

    

3. Select the award you want to issue, and add the criteria that the student met in Award Criteria. 

    

4. Click Issue.

To revoke an award that was already issued:

1. In Classlist Awards, select the students you want to revoke awards from using the checkbox by their names.
2. Click the Revoke button. 

    

3. Select the award you want to revoke, and add the reason for revoking the award in Revoke Reason. 

    

4. Click Revoke.