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We’ve upgraded our badge-baking protocol from the 0.5 version to the 1.0 version. If you have trouble loading an existing badge into your backpack (particularly on Badger), try finding it in your dashboard and re-baking it. If you’re having any issues, drop us a line and we can probably do it for you.
Badges In Action
There’s more to our badges technology than Pirate Adventure. We’ve rolled it out and adapted it to several other uses as well.
The Stillman School uses a version to manage the Stillman Passport. Events are created as badge-like events, and participants are credited when they attend.
The new SAIL program is also using a version. Among the refinements are the ability to use a swipe-card reader to credit attendees.
Plus, several other institutions have borrowed our code and successfully adapted it for use in their own programs.
If your department or organization needs a way to manage and track complex events or assignments, get in touch with TLTC and maybe we can make this work for you as well!
Show Your Class Spirit!
Now you can use the leaderboard to see how you rank in your class. Click on the “By Class Year” tab and see.
Wait A Minute, I’m Not There!
Be sure you’ve set your class year in your personal settings. Go to the Your Account screen, and click on the Settings tab. Put in your class year, and make sure that you’ve set Make My Scores Public.
New On The Leaderboard
Now you can see leaders by year!
Just visit the leaderboard on the Badges web site and click on the By Year tab. You can see who’s on top in this year’s race, and also review last year’s standings.
The Doubloon Hunters are on the prowl — don’t miss your chance!
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The Doubloon Hunt is Over!
Congratulations to the 93 of you who found all 31 doubloons.
The drawing will be soon for the big prize winner, so watch here for the announcement.
Leaders
One of the features we’re working on is a leaderboard. We hope to show some combination of points and number of badges won; by categories; and by time periods such as “top winners yesterday” and “top scorers last week.”
What would be meaningful to you?
To participate, be sure to go into the ‘Settings’ tab of your Account page to allow others to see your score. Also, to show your badges you have to both check off the “show badges I select” option on the ‘Settings’ tab, and then click individual ‘Show’ buttons next to each badge you want to display. (You can always click ‘Hide’ later on to not show them.)
Power Up!
We’ve just set up a feature to build tier 2 badges. Set one up the same way you set up a standard badge, but with a few differences.
There’s nothing to click, no QR codes to snap. Just use the drag-and-drop interface to pull in the badges that the recipient must have earned to get it. The rest will happen automatically.
Drag must-have badges into the top block. Then drag options into the bottom. Options? For example, say you have six weekend events and you want the recipient to have attended at least three of them. Drag the badges for the six events into the bottom block, then enter “3” into the “And/or any __ of these” box.
These composite badges can be edited or copied, just like regular badges. Just go to the Administer Awards screen and click “Edit.”
Introducing The Pirate Adventure Patch
Our first badge, this is awarded to incoming freshmen the first time they log into PirateNet.