Showing knowledge with an open badge – Experiences from the "How to use Metacampus" course (Report 1/2024)

Gasplmayr, Katharina & Schön, Sandra (2024). Showing knowledge with an open badge – Experiences from the “How to use Metacampus” course. In: Unite! Digital Teaching and Learning - Success Story Report (edited by Martin Ebner, Katharina Gasplmayr and Sandra Schön), 1/2024, DOI: 10.3217/rsvzg-nd732 

The “How to use Metacampus” course serves as an introduction to the Unite! Metacampus, the federated learning management system (LMS) of the Unite! Alliance. It is intended to be a first point of contact for users who are not familiar with the platform. The course is available for all people within Unite! (teachers, students, staff) for self-enrollment via the Unite! Metacampus and is a self-study course. After completing this course, participants will have basic knowledge about the Metacampus, will be able to find their way around the Metacampus, and will be able to use basic Moodle activities. The “Fit for Metacampus” quiz is a Moodle quiz activity with 8 questions and a passing grade of 5/10 points (see Fig. 1). By taking the “Fit for Metacampus” quiz, participants can show that they have acquired basic knowledge about the Metacampus which is needed to use the platform. Upon passing the quiz, participants automatically receive an open badge via the Metacampus. The badge was created and implemented into the course by the Metacampus support team. To call attention to the “How to use Metacampus” course and the open badge, the course was promoted before the 9th Unite! Dialogue in Graz (February 2024). At the Dialogue, all participants who received the virtual open badge could also claim a “real” badge by showing the digital badge to the Metacampus team at the Community event “Unite! Unite! What’s in it for me”. More details can be found in the report.

The series “Unite! Digital Teaching and Learning Success Story Report” was initiated by Cm.2 Digital Campus, led by TU Graz (Martin Ebner) as part of the idea to collect, spread and enhance the possibilities, usages and lessons learned of teaching and learning offers using the federated learning management system Metacampus in 11/2024 till the end of the current Erasmus+ funding period 10/2026. All reports are available under open license and originally published at the TU Graz repository. Copyright holders are the authors.