Badge
Technical block
Technical blocks allow the creation of more complex and innovative scenarios.
They generally have no visual impact, and focus on the logic of your scenario execution.
Video Tutorial
Take your first steps with this block thanks to the dedicated video tutorial!
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Behaviour
The Badge block allows your learners to earn a badge during a scenario:
- A notification is displayed when the learner wins a badge.
- Once a badge is won, it cannot be lost.
- If the Experience is deployed via VTS Perform, an earned badge is synchronized to the learner's VTS Perform account, so it can be retrieved by the learner by logging into VTS Player on any device.
The only parameter to be defined in this block is the badge to be won. You can then choose a badge from the badges you have configured in your VTS Editor project:
For all the information about the creation of badges, see the section specific to the project's badges configuration.
As with any block, you as the designer choose where to place this block within your graph. You can choose precisely the conditions that make a learner earn a badge. For example:
- To reward a specific answer to a Quiz, link the Badge block directly following that answer from the Quiz block.
- As a reward for reaching the very end of an extensive discussion tree (without ending it prematurely), connect the Badge block after the last Speak block of a discussion.
- Connect a Badge block following a Condition block:
- To reward for exceeding a certain score threshold in a given skill.
- As a reward for spending a certain amount of time in the simulation.
- To reward a very particular action depending on several variables in your project.
- Etc.
If during his scenario the learner goes through this Badge block :
- He earns the badge that is specified in the block's parameters.
- A notification is displayed in the top right corner indicating the badge he has just won, with only the image and the name of the badge. As the description can be long, it is not displayed here. This notification remains visible for a few seconds before disappearing.
- If the learner had already earned this badge in the past, no notification is displayed.
It is possible for the learner to click on a badge notification to display the detailed description of the badge, as defined in your project settings. He will then be able to see what the objectives were, or rather what feat he has just achieved to deserve this award:
When a learner plays a scenario of an Experience containing badges, a specific button for badges is visible at the top left of the screen, displaying a summary of the badges available for that Experiment (already won or not). This button is visible in the previous illustrations. The small dot (here orange, depending on the color chosen for the project) is only displayed when the learner has earned new badges since the last time this button was clicked.
By clicking on this button, the learner then accesses a summary of all the badges existing in the current Experience. There he can see the badges he has already earned, the badges he has not yet earned, and the conditions to meet to earn them.
This badge summary is also accessible from outside the Experience, in the VTS Player main menu. See the specific section about badges in VTS Player.
Once a badge is earned...
- When a learner earns a badge, he is earned forever. It is impossible to "lose" a badge.
- When a learner plays a scenario and goes through a Badge block parametered with a badge he has already won: nothing happens. As the badge is already won, there is nothing new to announce to the learner.
- If the Experience is deployed via VTS Perform :
- All earned badges are synchronized with your learners' VTS Perform account. This means that badges can be retrieved regardless of the device your learners are logged on to. For example, a learner can win a badge by playing the Experience on his desktop computer, then log on to VTS Player on his phone and see that the badge is displayed as "won".
- If you are administrator of your VTS Perform organization, you can see the badges earned by the learners in the session statistics.
The special case of VTS Editor
When you design your Experience with VTS Editor, you are not yourself a learner playing the Experience in VTS Player. Therefore, you cannot acquire the badges as your learners will.
The Badge blocks still have the same visible effect as if the Experience was played in VTS Player: you see the notification, the detailed description and the button to access the summary of all the badges.
The difference with VTS Player is that once your preview is finished, you automatically lose all badges earned during this preview. This allows you to test as many times as necessary the proper functioning of your Badge blocks. If a Badge block is triggered several times during the same preview, the badge notification will only be displayed the first time.
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