Community Contributions: Badging and Contributions
Recognize the contributors to your community through customizable badging and recognition. You can recognize event organizers, speakers, hosts, content authors, and custom contributors on their profiles and a new Contributor Page.
If you’d like to start recognizing your contributors with badges, reach out to the Gradual team.
Configuring the Visibility of Community Contributions
From the dashboard, you can switch on or off the visibility of badges, the contributions listed on profiles, or the entire feature.
Turning on or off Contribution Module Visibility
Turning on Contribution Module Visibility
By turning this feature on, all contributions and any enabled badges will appear on contributor profiles and on the contributor page (if enabled). To do this:
- Navigate to Contributors → Contributions Settings and under Contribution Module Visibility, click on Edit.
- Select Turned On and click on Save.
Turning off Contribution Module Visibility
By turning this feature on, no badges or contributions will appear on any profiles. To do this:
- Navigate to Contributors → Contributions Settings and under Contribution Module Visibility, click on Edit.
- Select Turned Off and click on Save.
Controlling Visibility of Specific Badges
You can configure which badges to show by following the steps below:
- Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
- Find the badge you would like to configure the visibility of, and click on the Edit icon.
- Click on the on/off button under Visibility to set the visibility and select Save.
If the Contributor Page is enabled, and the badge board is visible, you'll need to hide that board so the badge can be hidden.
Make that change in Contributors → Contributor Board → Customization → Toggle off the visibility of that board:
Showing Contributions Only
You may want to show contributions and recognition of the events and content by contributors without showing badges.
By turning off the visibility of all badges, you will be able to list the contributions at the base of profiles sans badges.
Enabling Contributor Page
Contributor module visibility must be turned on first if you would like to showcase your contributor page. The following are the steps to enable the contributor page:
- Navigate to the Contributors tab, and to Contribution Settings.
- Make sure that the Contribution Module Visibility is turned on.
- Toggle on Display Contributor Page.
Learn more about the contributor page here.
Contributions
Contribution counts are listed beside the badges at the top of the member profile and on the contributor page.
A detailed list of published events (past, current, and future) that the member has contributed to are all included at the base of their profile, along with any published content pieces they have authored.
If a contributor is associated with an event or piece of content that is space-restricted:
- If the member viewing is not part of the Space: it will not list that event or blog, but it will list ‘There are more exclusive events or content’ at the base of the list of contributions to indicate those access-restricted contributions.
- If the member viewing is part of the Space: it will list that event or blog.
Badges
System Badges
To get you started, there are four badges available to enable, customize, and use in your community. The badges will appear at the top of the member’s profile, and on the contributor page, and include the name of the badge, description of recognition, and the contribution count.
Each badge below can be enabled, or disabled, and the text and graphics can be customized to fit your branding and language. Learn more about the customization of these badges below.
Currently, the connection to the contributors and relation to their role cannot be changed, so ‘Host’ will always relate and show on meeting room hosts if enabled, and cannot be changed to Panelists, etc. If you'd like to build a custom badge, follow the steps in this resource.
Organizer
This badge relates to and acknowledges event organizers. Organizers are the individuals who are listed in the ‘Organized By’ section in General Info of a published event in the dashboard.
This badge does not acknowledge or show on the profiles of admins who create events in the dashboard or any individuals listed as organizers of unpublished events.
Host
This badge relates to and acknowledges hosts in meeting rooms and roundtables. Hosts are the individuals who are assigned ‘Host’ in the dashboard setup of published meeting-type events, meeting rooms within published livestream event agendas, and roundtables within published livestream event agendas.
This badge does not acknowledge or show on the profiles of those assigned ‘Panelist’, hosts of unpublished meetings or livestream events or hosts of community-level roundtables.
Learn how to assign Hosts and all of their controls and settings here.
Speaker
This badge relates to and acknowledges speakers in published events and in published video content. Speakers are the individuals who are assigned ‘Speaker’ in published events, or added as ‘Speaker’ on a piece of published video content in the dashboard.
Learn how to add Speakers here.
Note: Speakers must be linked to a member account to be acknowledged with a badge and contribution. Learn how to link Speaker profiles to member profiles here.
Content
This badge relates to and acknowledges content authors. Authors are the individuals who are added as the ‘Author’ on a piece of published blog or resource content in the dashboard.
Note: Authors must be linked to a member account to be acknowledged with a badge and contribution. Authors are included in the community Speakers list and you can link accounts there. Learn how to link speaker and author profiles to member profiles here.
Custom Badges
You can now add up to 10 custom badges to your community to recognize your members. These badges can be assigned to any members of your community and can appear at the top of the member’s profile, and on the contributor page. You can fully customize the badge graphic, name of the badge, and description of recognition to fit your branding and language. Learn more about building custom badges below.
Badge Customization
You can customize elements of the present, and system badges, and add your own badge(s) to the community contributions.
Badge Graphic
This is the graphic that appears as a small icon in the profile, and in the pop-up that appears when a user hovers over the badge.
Choose or upload the best graphic to fit your branding.
- Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
- Select the Edit icon on the badge you'd like to customize.
- Select the Change button, and select a Present option or upload a custom graphic.
If uploading a custom graphic, we recommend it be a PNG format, 360x360 px, up to 5 MB in size.
Badge Name and Description
The title and description appear on the contributor’s profile and in the pop-up when a user hovers over the badge.
Name your badge and add a description to your badge, according to your community's branding:
- Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
- Select the Edit icon on the badge you'd like to customize.
- Enter the name in 'Badge Name' and the description in 'Badge Description'.
The maximum length of the badge description is 75 characters.
Custom Badges
You can now create custom badges in your community that acknowledge members beyond speakers, hosts, authors, and event organizers.
Building custom badges
- Navigate to Contributors → Badges.
- Select +Custom Badge in the upper right corner.
- Title your badge, provide a description and select a preset or upload a graphic for the badge image.
Assigning badges to members
- Navigate to the Member's Profile.
- Select the Contributions tab.
- Select the 'Log Custom Contribution' button in the upper right.
- Select the contribution from the available (visible) badges, confirm or update the date and if there is a count associated with the contribution, add the total count.
- Save your work and the badge will now appear on that member's profile.
If you need to edit this contribution at any time, you will navigate to their profile and make the necessary edits.
Currently, up to ten custom badges are allowed per community.
Contributors
See your contributors and their activity from the dashboard in the Contribution Logs tab.
Search for certain contributors or sort and filter by badge type, contribution or log.
Contributor Page
The Contributor page showcases the contributions of your community and features your top contributing members on a designated page.
Learn more about the contributor page and how to customize it here.