Ready to have some fun with your participants? Badges are the way to go! In addition to default badges provided for you, you can create custom badges designed specifically for your event.
Check out this video for an overview of this article's content:
When you click Badges on the control panel, you'll be taken to the Badge Center. Here you'll see a list of all system badges and any custom badges you've created, along with the number of Awardees.
First, let’s go over the System Badges! These are the default badges included with each new peer-to-peer event. Your Participant Badges include:
Your Team Badges include:
You may activate or deactivate any system badge by using the toggle to the left. For system badges exclusively, you'll see a Manage link to the right. This link allows you to Award or Revoke badges manually, if necessary.
The Profile Completed badge is the only System badge that cannot be deactivated. If you have the Welcome Quest activated, the badge will also remain activated.
Creating Custom Badges
You can create your own badges, too! Click the Add Badge button to get started.
As you work through creating your own badges, any updates/changes you make to a badge will appear in the Preview window on the right side of the screen.
To get started, type in a name for your badge.
You may choose a background color for your badge by clicking the Choose Color button and making adjustments until you have your desired hue.
If you have your exact color, you may enter that color code in the box and click OK.
Next, you can choose an icon for your badge by clicking the Choose Icon button. You may choose from three categories: Events, Animals, or Miscellaneous.
Don’t forget to activate your badge by using the toggle switch.
Next you'll be determining who is eligible to receive your badge by using the Who can earn this badge? drop-down menu. Your options here are: Any Participant, Any Team, A Team Member, or A Team Captain.
Now you may choose events to trigger the badge delivery. Your options here are: Manual, Achievement Reached, and Engagement Contest.
Manual: This option is for you to award badges on a case-by-case basis. They will NOT be auto-awarded by the system. This allows you to award badges for things that our system can't track, such as achievements offline.
Achievement Reached: These types of badges will be awarded to participants who achieve the milestone outlined by you. The three milestones we allow you to use as a basis to award badges are listed below.
- Individual Donations - Here, you can award a badge based on the number of donations someone collects.
- % of Donation Goal - Here, you can award a badge based on the percentage of their goal a participant/team reaches.
- Total Donation Amount - Here, you can award a badge based on the total monetary amount of donations a participant/team raises.
Engagement Contest: These types of badges must be competed for and move from participant to participant based on who's in the lead according to your configuration. The two engagement options are listed below.
- Donations Use this option to award the badge to whoever gets the most donations by a certain date.
- Team Members This option awards the badge to whoever gains the most team members by a certain date.
Note: The Team Members option can only be selected if you have Team Captain selected on the Who can earn this badge? drop-down menu we went over earlier.
You may enter a custom date or click Use Event Date to populate the field with the event date on record in your system.
To see how many people are eligible to receive your badge, click the button shown below, which is located below the preview window.
When you're finished making changes to your badge and settings, you may choose to Save Badge, Cancel, or Delete it.
Once you save your badge, it will be accessible from your Badge Center screen. You may edit or delete it at any time.
Uploading a Badge
You can also upload your own badges in the Badge Center if you'd like to get even more creative. Click the Add Badge button and choose the Upload a Badge option to use your own images.
You'll follow the same steps for the badge settings as you did in the Creating Custom Badges section. The key difference here is the ability to upload your own image to display as a badge. This option can be found in the preview window.
You have two options here! You can upload an image to become a badge or you can use the templates in the Need a Template? area to design custom badges to look more like System Badges. Clicking on any of the 3 file types under Need a Template will download that template type.
Once you've decided on the image you'd like to use, click the Choose Image area in the Preview box. Once clicked, you'll be taken to your computer’s files. Browse until you find your desired image or pre-designed badge based on a template. Once you select a file, it will upload to the preview window. When you're happy with how it looks, click I’m Done Editing.
Once you save your badge, it will be accessible from your Badge Center screen. You may edit or delete it at any time.