Open-Education-Badges-Moodle-Plugin

A Moodle LMS Plugin to use the Open Badges from the platform Open Educational Badges.

Open Educational Badges is a platform that provides the tools your organization needs to implement a meaningful and sustainable Open Badges system.

With the local_openeducationbadges plugin you can issue Badges created in Open Educational Badges. To use the plugin, you need an account on https://openbadges.education (You can register for free).

How to install

Moodle 4.1 and up:

1. Install the zip via Moodle's plugin page. Select "local" as the type of the plugin. (alternative: unzip to moodle's local subdirectory)
2. Update the database using the notifications page
3. Complete the Post install steps

Post install

To connect to Open Educational Badges, the plugin needs a request token or Credentials.

To generate the required Credentials, log in to Open Educational Badges. When logged in, navigate to Konto > App Integrationen.

This supports multiple clients on one Moodle installation.

On the Credentials page click on Neue Credentials registrieren for OAuth2 Client Credentials. Give a name for the credentials and copy the client id and secret values into OEB Moodle plugin settings, in Site administration > Open Education Badges > Clients.