Badges: a visible attainment record
Badges give students a visible attainment and engagement record beyond a raw grade - skills mastered, participation kept up, milestones hit across a whole course.
Open Education → Badges. The catalogue lists every badge available on the platform - award one manually, or let auto-award rules handle the routine ones.
A badge catalogue compounds over a course - it becomes a visible skill ladder students can point to, not just a grade average. See "Curriculum templates" for the other half of the same toolkit: packaging a lab for reuse term after term.