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title: "What I'm Learning: Student Badges with Google Apps"
date: 2014-06-01
url: https://learningischange.com/2014/06/01/what-im-learning-student-badges-with-google-apps/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Blog", "What I’m Learning", "What I’m Using"]
tags: []
---

# What I'm Learning: Student Badges with Google Apps

While it doesn’t actually talk to the Open Badges backpack, I really do like how well integrated it is into Google Apps. I also really like how thorough the how to is. Nice work Mr. Russell!

[Mr Trussell Maths: How To Create A Student Badge Leaderboard Using Google Apps](http://mrtrussell.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-to-create-student-badge-leaderboard.html)

> This year I’ve been developing the role of ‘Digital Leader’ in my school to support our move to BYOD. Through research of the benefits of gamification, I decided that I wanted to be able to award badges to students to certify their skills and urge them to support others and develop skills. Mozilla Open Badges seemed like a good place to start, but it was tough to tailor to what we needed, and would be another set of login credentials for students to remember/set up.