Automatic Badges

Maintained by Cristian J. Lamus, Daniela Alexandra Patiño Davila

Automatic Badges is a Moodle local plugin that allows teachers to define rules for automatically awarding badges to students based on their activity and performance in a course. Rules can be triggered by minimum grade thresholds, forum participation, assignment submissions, or any grade book item — including calculated grades that aggregate multiple activities. Global rules can target all instances of a module type at once, and an optional bonus points system writes extra credit directly to the grade book when a badge is issued. Badges are evaluated in real time via Moodle events and in batch through a scheduled task. A built-in dry-run simulator lets teachers preview which students would receive a badge before activating any rule.

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Supports Moodle 4.5-5.2 See all versions

Latest release: 3 months ago

Installations: 29

Downloads (last 90 days): 383

Frankenstyle name: local_automatic_badges

Local plugins

Current version

1.1.1 (2026041701)

Moodle 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2

Uploaded on Friday, 17 April 2026 at 05:56 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Local plugins

Frankenstyle component name: local_automatic_badges

Version build number: 2026041701

Version release name: 1.1.1

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/Unidad-de-Educacion-Virtual/AutomaticBadges

Repository branch:

Repository tag: v1.1.1

Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/Unidad-de-Educacion-Virtual/AutomaticBadges/issues

Automatic Badges (local_automatic_badges)

Automatic Badges is a Moodle plugin that empowers course administrators and teachers to dynamically assign badges to users based on flexible rules and criteria.

Requirements

Moodle 4.5 or later (Requires version 2024100700 or newer).

PHP 8.1 or newer.

Capabilities

Define rules per course or globally to issue badges.

Assign badges based on activity grades, course completion, or forum posts.

Apply bonus points natively depending on the criteria met.

Extensive logging to keep track of all automatically issued badges via GDPR-compliant privacy structures.

Installation

Upload the ZIP file with the plugin code.

Check the plugin validation report and finish the installation.

Alternatively, you can copy the automatic_badges directory into the local/ directory of your Moodle installation and run the upgrade script via php admin/cli/upgrade.php or by visiting the Moodle administration page.

Usage

Once installed, site administrators can enable the plugin globally or per-course from the plugin's main configuration page.
Teachers will find a new section within their course settings to define the automatic badge rules.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.

Authors

Daniela Alexandra Patiño Dávila

Cristian Julian Lamus Lamus

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Automatic Badges

Versions

1.1.1 (2026041701)