Open Badges

LEAST supports IMS Global Open Badges v2.0 — digitally verifiable credentials that learners can add to their LinkedIn profile, email signature, or CV. Badges are cryptographically signed and publicly verifiable.

Every badge has:

• Name and description — what the badge represents
• Criteria — what the earner did to earn it
• Image — the badge artwork (PNG, 512×512 recommended)
• Issuer — the organisation issuing the badge

1. Navigate to Admin → Badges → New Badge
2. Enter name, description, and criteria
3. Upload badge image
4. Set the issuer organisation
5. Save — the badge class is now available for issuance

Badges can be issued in three ways:

Manually:

1. Navigate to Admin → Badges → Issue
2. Select the badge class and enter the recipient's email
3. LEAST creates a signed assertion and emails the recipient

In bulk:

1. Prepare a list of email addresses
2. Navigate to Admin → Badges → Bulk Issue
3. Upload the list — LEAST issues to all valid emails

Automatically (via cron):

1. Configure automatic issuance rules on a badge class
2. LEAST's daily cron job checks eligibility and issues badges automatically

When a badge is issued, LEAST dispatches an xAPI statement (verb: earned) to the configured Learning Record Store (LRS). This enables badge issuance to appear in learner activity streams and LRS dashboards.

Each badge assertion has a unique public URL. Anyone can verify a badge by opening the assertion URL — LEAST returns a JSON-LD document confirming the earner, criteria, and issuer. Badge wallets (Badgr, Open Badge Passport) can import assertions via this URL.

1. Navigate to Admin → Badges → Issued Badges
2. Find the assertion and click Revoke
3. The assertion is marked revoked; verification checks return revoked status
4. The earner is not automatically notified — notify them manually if appropriate