Why use badging?
Badges let you publicly recognize team members for contributions to your learning culture — mentoring, completing learning paths, leading sessions, and so on. A badge appears on the recipient's avatar and signals their role or expertise to teammates looking for help, collaborators, or recognition.
Common patterns:
Role badges that mark people who have taken on a responsibility, like Mentor or Office Hour Host.
Tiered recognition for milestones, like an Expert badge with regular and Top variants for different levels of contribution.
Topic badges that signal expertise in a specific area, often paired with tags or channels in your catalog.
How badging works
A badge is an object with a name and an image. Admins create badges in the Badges dashboard, and then automated rules grant or revoke those badges to users based on a People Segment. There is no separate manual badge assignment in PlusPlus — every badge a user holds was granted by a rule.
Once granted, a user's primary badge appears on their avatar wherever the avatar is shown, including the user profile header and mentor and expert cards in people directories.
Set up badges
Before a rule can grant a badge, the badge itself has to exist.
From the admin dashboard, select Badges. The Badges dashboard lists all badges in your instance, with each badge's name, image, and earned count.
Click Create badge.
Upload an Image and enter a Name.
Click Submit. The badge is now available to select as the target of an automated rule.
To edit a badge's name or image later, open the context menu (button with three dots) on the badge row and select Edit. To remove a badge entirely, select Delete.
To grant the badge to users, create an automated rule with the Add/remove badges from users action. See How to automate badge assignments.
Sync badges to Degreed
If you use Degreed alongside PlusPlus, you can push badges earned in PlusPlus to Degreed so they appear on learner profiles for recognition and credentialing. Enable this in Settings > Integrations > Degreed by turning on the Sync Badges option. See Using Degreed with PlusPlus for the full Degreed integration setup.
Limits to know about
Display surfaces in PlusPlus. Badges render on the user avatar (profile header) and on mentor and expert cards in people directories. They do not render in MyHub, catalog cards, search results, or other surfaces.
Primary badge only. When a user holds more than one badge, only the primary badge displays on their avatar. Other badges are stored on the user record but are not visible in the UI.
No recipients view. The Badges dashboard shows the earned count for each badge, but there is no built-in way to see the list of users who hold a specific badge.