Badges

Badges are achievements participants unlock by playing, or collect when you hand one out. They don’t carry points. For a prize you give a person or a team, and can take back, use Awards instead.

Who can do this: Org admins create, edit, award and deactivate badges on the dashboard. Read-only users and station staff can see them. Station staff can hand out badges from the organiser app.

Where: Event → Engagement → Badges

Participants only see badges while the Badges module is on.

How a badge is earned

How it’s earned	What happens
Awarded by hand	Only you give it out.
At a points total	A participant gets it automatically once their total reaches Points needed.
After a number of completions	A participant gets it automatically after Completions needed challenge completions. In Counts (completions only), choose Any challenge or one challenge type.

Create a badge

1. Click New badge.
2. Enter a Name and, optionally, a Description of when it’s earned.
3. Optionally, upload an Icon (PNG, JPEG or WebP). Without one, the badge shows its first letter.
4. Choose How it’s earned.
5. For an automatic badge, fill in Points needed or Completions needed, and for completions choose what it Counts.
6. Click Create badge.

How a badge is earned is fixed once the badge exists. You can still edit its name, description, icon and threshold: open it and click Edit, then Save changes.

Hand out a badge

1. Click the badge to open it.
2. Click Award.
3. Pick the participant.
4. Click Confirm award.

Take a badge back

Only a badge given by hand can be taken back. One a participant earned automatically shows “earned” and has no ×.

1. Open the badge and click Take back. You see everyone who holds it, newest first.
2. Click the × next to the person.
3. Confirm with Take back.

Deactivate a badge

Badges are never deleted, so who earned one stays on record.

1. Open the badge and click Deactivate.
2. Confirm. It stops being awarded but stays visible as Inactive.

To deactivate several, tick them and use the bulk Deactivate.