Open Badge Generator & Issuer using Google Sites/Forms + Source Code
So, the rationale for building this system came from a need for our institution to be able to issue Open Badges , an initiative backed by the Mozilla foundation for standardising the issuing of badges for 'verifying learning'. All the systems that allow you to issue badges to users are all tied in to big and bulky VLEs such as BlackBoard. So what happens when it's a face to face session? How can we issue a badge to a user when they aren't in the ecosphere of the VLE or institution for that matter? We didn't want to have to worry about usernames, registrations, training on another system etc So I had a scout around to see what was about. I came across work by +Martin Hawksey where he used Google Sites to wrap up Mozilla's Open Badges Issuer api and a Google Form to serve this api with the correct badge details. Fab, this is 'sort of' exactly what we wanted. I mean 'sort of' in the greatest respect to Martin's work, simply put, I