Proposal for Adding Badges and Other ‘Learner Achievements’ to WordPress Profiles
In December 2020, WordPress launched its new “Learn” platform with free courses, workshops, and lesson plans. Since then, the Training Team has continued adding more material. The latest proposal is an open discussion for the community on adding participatory badges for completing coursework. “I’d like to nail down what kind of thing we would like to see regarding recognising learner achievements on profiles,” wrote WordPress community manager Hugh Lashbrooke in the announcement earlier this month. The proposal, which now has a GitHub ticket, includes showing the following on a user’s WordPress.org profile page: A course’s completion in the activity stream.The user’s average grade from Learn WordPress.A new “Learning” tab for displaying completed courses with dates and the possibility of individual completed lessons, relevant grades, and other learning data.A new “Learner” badge for anyone who has completed one course. Currently, there are only two courses available. “That is changing as we develop new content,” wrote Lashbrooke in the post. “So my hope is that we will have these rewards in place now, and as content is created, the rewards will flow naturally.” One downside to the proposal may be publicly showing a user’s grades. “I’d be against showing the learner’s average…
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