WP Campus Connect and WP Credits badges

[debdesign]

The WP Campus Connect and WP Credits teams would like to request new profile badges for their programs.

WP Credits

For the WP Credits program, we propose the following badges:

• Team – administrative members of the project (#AE47F2)
• Mentor – reps or mentors guiding students (#8329E3)
• Institution – partner institutions (#8329E3)
• Enrolled – students who enrolled in the program (#D547F2)
• Graduate – students who successfully completed the program (#AE47F2)

WP Campus Connect

For WPCC, we propose the following badges:

• Team – administrative members of the project (#3858E9)
• Participant – participants of the program (#3858E9)

Notes

• The respective teams will manually assign all badges.
• A screenshot with the proposed names and visual examples of the badges is attached below.
• The corresponding SVG files are also included.

[dd32]

Are all of these badges needed?

WP Credits Mentor – reps or mentors guiding students (#8329E3)

Is this a 'Has been a mentor before' or 'Is currently a mentor'?

WP Credits Institution – partner institutions (#8329E3)

Is it expected that institutions have a "brand account"/"company account"? This badge seems like one that wouldn't actually be utilised by many, and would offer limited benefit. Similarly, 5FTF companies don't have badges/etc.

WP Credits Enrolled – students who enrolled in the program (#D547F2)
WP Credits Graduate – students who successfully completed the program (#AE47F2)

Generally, Badges are earned and not removed, it would be strange to have both Enrolled/Graduated badges, so it'd be a case of remove-enrolled-add-graduated I guess?

I hate to say it, but it may also encourage some people to attempt to enroll just to get the badge without any intention of furthering. I would personally suggest that this should just be a singular WP Credits Graduate badge.

[debdesign]

Thanks for the feedback! I checked in with the team, and we’ve agreed to continue only with the WP Campus Connect Participant badge and the WP Credits Graduate badge.

[peiraisotta]

@dd32 Hello! We expect the first WP Credits students to graduate by the end of November 2025. What’s the expected timeline for having the Graduate badge ready? Thank you.

[dd32]

Thanks for the ping @peiraisotta, This slipped through some cracks.

I've created the Participant and Graduate badges, currently these are assigned to @dd32 and @peiraisotta for testing.

[peiraisotta]

Thanks a lot @dd32! I see that one badge is WP Credits Participant while it should be WP Campus Connect instead.[Participant – participants of the program (#3858E9)]

After all, we'll also need the WP Credits Mentor [reps or mentors guiding students (#8329E3)]. Is it possible to add this one as well?

[dd32]

@peiraisotta Whoops.. Total misread there :) I'll add those others shortly.

[dd32]

Okay, so, all visible on my profile @dd32

WP Campus Connect Participant badge

​https://profiles.wordpress.org/associations/campus-connect-participant/

Note: The example just has it as 'Campus Connect Participant' but I think it's supposed to have WP there right?

WP Credits Graduate badge

​https://profiles.wordpress.org/associations/credits-graduate/

WP Credits Mentor

​https://profiles.wordpress.org/associations/credits-mentor/

Before you ask how to assign the badges (Unless you already have profiles wp-admin access), I'll follow up tomorrow with a tool for that.

[peiraisotta]

Sounds good, I'll wait for your instructions then. Thank you Dion!

[dd32]

In 14547:

Make: Add a tool to allow Make teams to assign / remove badges as needed.

This allows teams to grant badges from a central place (their Make site) without needing to have BuddyPress (profiles.wordpress.org) admin access.
See wp-admin => Tools -> Profile Badges.

By default this is limited to users with manage_options (Administrators) but can be lowered to those who can publish on the P2 or disabled.

A super-admin needs to set the badges which are able to be managed on each site.

See #8068.
Fixes #3043, #3026.

[piyopiyofox]

@dd32 Is it possible to make me a group admin as well for WPCC? This will allow me to approve requests, correct? At this stage I'm also guessing that students will need to request the badge themselves after participating?

[dd32]

@piyopiyofox Requests were disabled for the badges.

Please use ​https://make.wordpress.org/community/wp-admin/tools.php?page=profile-badges to grant the badges to those who need it. Anyone who is an admin on make/community can access that (Including yourself)

[piyopiyofox]

Ahhh I see, and I can confirm access. Thank you @dd32 !!