Introducing badges in Zoho Learn

You've created interactive lessons, imported engaging SCORM packages and set many reminders for your learners, yet you feel stuck because your learners are disinterested. You've done many things to encourage learning, but you're still stuck on the top of the Ferris wheel. The only way to keep moving is to reward learning. Here comes badges in Zoho Learn to do just that!

Badges are a great way to recognize and reward your learners' efforts. It makes them feel appreciated and pushes them to learn more. Read on to learn more about badges in Zoho Learn.

What should I know about badges? 

Badges are a digital representation of employees' participation in learning. Some things to know about badges in Zoho Learn are:

• You can either choose badges from our templates or upload your own, customized badges.

• Hub admins will have the privilege to create badges. These badges can then be mapped to the courses.

• Learners can receive one or multiple badges upon completing a single course.

• Learners can view all their badges right at their profile.

Gamifying learning with badges

Badges is the first step towards gamified learning and add value to your learning platform in multiple ways. Some of them are listed below:

Provides motivation to learners

One of the biggest pros of adding badges to your courses is to provide motivation to your learners. Course completion badges encourage learners to take up courses and finish them faster just to add them to their profiles. Being a tangible incentive and intrinsic motivational tool, badges definitely help people in undertaking training programs.

Creates healthy competition

Badges allow learners to create an atmosphere of friendly competition where people will learn more to receive the highest number of badges. With the aim to beat one another in receiving badges, the entire organization ends up taking an active part in learning initiatives.

Makes learning simpler

When an employee is assigned many courses per year, it is daunting, stressful, and overwhelming. It diminishes the interest to learn and adds to the stress. Shifting the focus from learning objectives to badge-based learning goals makes learning seem simpler and achievable.

Creates a visual impact

Gamification techniques, specifically badges, add a visual element to e-learning programs. Whether it's adding customized, creative badges or uploading existing badges, they multiply the interests of the learners and make the learner profile visually engaging.

Fosters a culture of learning

Badges create a culture of learning because learners are continually engaged in your training programs. They act as positive reinforcements and rewards for learner efforts. This in turn creates a positive learning culture with engaged individuals.

Getting started with badges 

The badges feature is available in both Express and Professional plans.

Check out the help documentation to get to know the feature in detail. Feel free to comment down below or reach out to support@zoholearn.com for further queries or suggestions.