Achievements offer your experience a way to reward learners and employers for completing specific activities within it. These rewards come in the form of a digital badge on their profile, but can also be integrated with external systems such a badging, micro-credentialing, or any other type of awards based platform.
Issue badges and micro-credentials to learners for completing projects
Track completion rates of achievements
Integrate with external systems easily
General
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Setting achievement criteria by activity type
As an educator, you can create custom achievements within your Riipen experience to recognize and reward meaningful actions taken by learners, employers, and admins added to your experiences. Achievements help promote engagement, motivation, and goal-setting through gamification. In the Criteria section of the achievement creation process, you’ll select an activity type that will trigger the achievement when completed. Below is a quick guide to each activity type available at the experience level and how you might use them:
Learner activities
Below is a quick reference to each activity option and how they might be used:
Feedback author: Learner provides feedback to an employer.
Encourage learners to reflect on their experience and share feedback at project completion.
Feedback recipient: Learner receives feedback from an employer.
Recognize learners who complete projects and receive evaluations.
Kickoff: Learner joins a project.
Celebrate a learner’s first step into an industry collaboration.
Message: Learner sends a message in the experience.
Promote professional communication between learners and employers.
Milestone: Learner completes a project milestone.
Reward steady progress toward project goals.
Submission: Learner submits a deliverable.
Acknowledge timely and complete contributions to the project.
Survey response: Learner completes a Riipen survey.
Encourage participation in experience feedback to support continuous improvement.
Educator activities
Below is a quick reference to each activity option and how they might be used:
Experience: Educator creates a Riipen experience.
Celebrate the launch of new course-based opportunities.
Feedback author: Educator provides feedback to employers.
Promote active evaluation and collaboration.
Feedback recipient: Educator receives feedback from employers.
Recognize open engagement in the feedback process.
Invite: Educator invites learners to the experience.
Support onboarding and outreach efforts.
Match: Educator accepts a project match.
Mark the start of a new collaboration.
Match request: Educator receives a match request from an employer.
Track incoming interest from industry partners.
Member: Educator joins a new experience.
Highlight collaborative efforts.
Message: Educator sends a message in the experience.
Foster timely communication with stakeholders through Riipen.
Milestone: Educator creates a milestone for the project.
Support structured project planning and clarity for learners.
Employer activities
Below is a quick reference to each activity option and how they might be used:
Feedback author: Employer provides feedback on learners or educators.
Promote constructive feedback and real-world evaluation.
Feedback recipient: Employer receives feedback from learners or educators.
Acknowledge their participation in mutual feedback.
Match: Employer is matched to your experience.
Celebrate successful collaboration setup.
Match request: Employer sends a match request to your experience.
Reward outreach and interest from industry partners.
Message: Employer sends a message in the experience.
Encourage clear communication between employers and learners.
Milestone: Employer creates a milestone.
Promote co-designed project planning.
Use activity types to align your achievements with key moments in the experience—motivating action, reinforcing engagement, and celebrating success across all participants.
How to
Create an achievement
To create an achievement for your experience:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Achievements" tab under the "Advanced" group
Click "Create achievement".
Fill in your achievement details.
Click "Submit".
Delete an achievement
If an achievement has been awarded, you cannot delete it, you can only retire it.
To delete an achievement:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Achievements" tab under the "Advanced" group
Click the achievement you want to delete
Click the trash icon
Retire an achievement
To retire an achievement:
Navigate to your experience
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Achievements" tab under the "Advanced" group
Click the achievement you want to retire
Click the "Settings" tab
Click "Retire achievement"