Investigate usefulness of Open Badges

[boeckhoff]

After some research, these are the steps I have come up with that are needed to make this happen:

• [ ] Create and host issuer profile JSON according to issuer spec

• [ ] Create and host BadgeClass JSON files for each challenge according to BadgeClass spec

• [ ] Link the BadgeClass JSON files to respective challenges as class property (path of BadgeClass json)

• [ ] Adapt documentation accordingly so that when contributers add new challenges they also add a BadgeClass and link it to the challange

• [ ] Modify ChallangeCompleteView so that when a challenge is finished a BadgeAssertion JSON is created and hosted on the server

• [ ] Include Issuer API at challenge completion step in frontend so that the user can receive the badge and place into openbadges backpack

• [ ] (optional) Consider adding insignia to frontend to indicate that we support badges

helpful links: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-backpack/wiki/New-Issuers:-Give-Yourself-a-Badge http://validator.openbadges.org/ https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-backpack/wiki/using-the-issuer-api https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-backpack/blob/master/docs/apis/issuer_api.md https://openbadgespec.org/examples/

[nikriek]

The good thing about Django: People can built modules ("apps"): Maybe you find one for badges. Then most of the work should be done.

[nikriek]

https://github.com/concentricsky/badgr-server?

[nikriek]

At least we should create separate app, when we are coding it ourselves