Teaching Tip: Build game-badging options inside Blackboard

September 6, 2016

Marissa Carl

Consider using badging or achievement game techniques to motivate students to achieve greater understanding in your course. Using gaming strategies, student progress can be about winning and learning. Encourage students to repeat exercises until a perfect score is received; acknowledge a student who is a conscientious discussion board commenter. There are many ways to motivate students.

Try the Blackboard feature called “Achievements” to start! Find out more in this week’s Teaching Tip.

— Teaching Tip by Heidi Olson, the learning design coordinator for UAF eLearning, a Google for Education certified trainer and adjunct instructor with over 25 years of experience in higher education.