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jQuery plugin for image special effects

For the badges program, I needed to find a way of graying out badges already awarded to this particular user. As an aside, I am looking up whether a badge has been awarded using the Google Apps Script […]

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How to set up your own badge environment

In the various sections in Badges I showed the detail behind creating a badge environment. Now, let’s say you wanted to implement your own badge issuing environment. You can use some or all of the xLiberation environment, […]

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Protecting email addresses

I’m using Persona to handle authentication for badges. This is largely because that’s what Mozilla open badges use. However it does mean that I can avoid storing any identifiable data, even though I have to host […]

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Implementation progress

What’s going on here In Badges I described a badge manager infrastructure I was planning, centered on the Mozilla Open Badges. There a quite a lot of components involved. I’ll be showing the latest pieces I’m working on […]

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Badge component summary

Here is a summary of how all the pieces fit together Stored and referenced from scriptdb Badges – the base unit of earning Badge collections – a collection of Badges that are likely to go […]

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Qualifying for a badge

In Assigning badges to pages we looked at how to create a panel showing which badges have been earned, or could be earned, on a page. To be able to earn a badge you have to demonstrate […]

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Badges

What are badges? Check here What has openbadges to do with Excel Liberation Open badges are a great way of recognizing competence, and I’m interested in seeing whether I might be able to personalize the […]

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Creating badge environment from a spreadsheet

In Assigning badges to pages I covered what a script would look like that could generate a badge awarding environment. Typically you would create a UI to manage this, rather than doing it through scripts. However, here’s […]

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Assigning badges to pages

One of the things we need to be able to do is to assign a set of badges that can be earned on a web site, know which badges have already been earned, and allow […]