In this article, you can read what Awards are and how to allocate these to students automatically or manually. You can use Awards to reward students for a skill or behaviour that is not formally assessed, but useful and desired. You can also use Awards to reward students for a certain score. This way the Awards can be an additional motivator for students to learn more than necessary, display specific behaviour or develop a certain skill. For each Award you create, you can specify for which course you want to use it and whether other teachers can use the Awards for their course. You can also add awards that other teachers have created to your own course if they have chosen to share it. 

Issuing Awards automatically 

Tip: It is possible to let Brightspace automatically issue an Award to a student, if the student has received a certain score or has finished a certain component. To set this up, you have to attach release conditions to the award. 

Navigate to ‘Course Management’ in the navigation bar of the course. Click on ‘Course Admin’ and scroll down to Assessment. Click on ‘Awards’. In the new screen, click on ‘Course Awards’. Click on ‘Edit Properties’ to adjust the settings of the award. 

Note: If you do not see this option, first read the manual on how to create an Award. Select ‘Award hidden until earned’. This means that the students will see the Award only if they have earned it. Click ‘Create’ under ‘Release Conditions’ to add release conditions. 

If you add multiple release conditions, you can use the drop-down menu to select whether a student has to meet all release conditions (‘All conditions must be met’) or one of them (‘Any conditions must be met)’. 

Click on ‘Save’. 

Note: You can also add credits to an award by using Edit Properties. These credits are not related to any credits in Grades and you cannot attach any release conditions to them. That is why you have to leave the field below credits empty.

Issuing Awards manually 

Navigate to ‘Course Management’ in the navigation bar of the course. Click on ‘Course Admin’ and scroll down to Assessment. Click on ‘Awards’. In the new screen, select the students you want to assign the award to. Click on ‘Issue’.  Use the drop-down menu to choose which award you want to issue. Enter the reason for issuing the award. Note: This will be visible to students. You can see which students you have selected under ‘Selected Users’. Click ‘Issue’. You will now return to the overview.