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Light Runner

24. december 2017 21:55
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Recently I've been programming a few different badge icons and ideas. My first one was Aspen.

Aspen was meant to be a badge that user would earn for being a member for 5+ years on Khan Academy. As of right now, there is a badge for 1-4 years of membership, but none for 5. Personally, I think a 5 and 10 year member badge should be put in place.

Aspen: Remain a member of Khan Academy for 5 years

The next badges are for the Unit Mastery system that is, I think, in beta form right now. I decided why not make badges for each category? Apprentice is for 0-24% mastery, Explorer is for 25-49%, Pioneer is for 50-74%, Adventurer is for 75-99%, and Sage is for 100% mastery. These are terms made by the KA team, I simply designed the badge concepts. Now I'm not sure how they would be earned since if you truly mastered all the math skills on KA, you'd get a crazy amount of these badges. So they would probably have to be a different way these were awarded than a set for every single section.

Apprentice: Achieve 0-24% mastery in a given section

Explorer: Achieve 25-49% mastery in a given section

Pioneer: Achieve 50-74% mastery in a given section

Adventurer: Achieve 75-99% mastery in a given section

Sage: Achieve 100% mastery in a given section

Another thing I've wanted for a while is Question badges. Now currently, there are two Question badges put in place (Investigator and Detective) But Answers have Excellent Teacher, Guru, Incredible Teacher, Sensei, and Oracle. I think badges for questions should also have that amount. So, that being said, I believe three badges should be added.

Excellent Thinker: Post 5 questions that earn 3+ votes

Incredible Thinker: Post 25 questions that earn 3+ votes

Curiosity: Post 50 questions that earn 3+ votes

I've only designed a badge concept for Curiosity since finding a "thinker" badge icon that doesn't already go along the lines of other badges out there, is very hard. I was thinking light bulbs, gears, a head with brain, question marks, etc. But all those have already been taken. Nevertheless, here is the Curiosity badge I came up with:

Finally I thought about some rare badges that are real badges, but not many users have them. These are Special Project, Support Advocate, and a more well known Rave Reviewer. Now a small disclaimer, I'm not very happy with my designs for both Rave Reviewer and Special Project but they'll have to do as concepts.

Special Project: Go above and beyond! Contribute to an officially recognized special project that will live on in the KA community.

Support Advocate: Become a Support Advocate who responds to posts in the support community and helps users escalade technical issues.

Rave Reviewer: Evaluate 150 projects

Last, but not least are two badges that have icons, but another user had asked me to make new icons for. I'm not a big fan of them as they have a pretty gross color scheme but they were fun to make.

Documentation Doctor: Create documentation for our programming courses

Trusted Tester: Review our programming courses before we release them

These are just some of the badges I have come up with but I have many other ideas I think KA would benefit from. I won't post them due to length reasons but I might post them in a different request later down the road.

Thanks to all who read, I hope you feel inspired to go out and make your own designs and try new ideas! I certainly had tons of fun while making these badges and am excited to go on to make more later on. Let me know if you have any questions about any of the badges above, I'll be more than happy to answer them :)

All these badges were designed on Khan Academy.

Special thanks:

I want to thank Jett for helping me perfect the gradient inside the badge. Before, they just looked really plain and didn't pop as much. But since he was able to figure it out, they were able to become much more colorful and vibrant.

Another thanks goes out to Legolas. He helped me with the inspiration for Curiosity. I was originally going to just do a hand holding a magnifying glass, but he suggested I put a finger print in there.

-Light Runner

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Andrew

12. april 2022 16:21
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Legolas Greenleaf

23. december 2017 02:50
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It would be great if these badges were added! I hope, since some new badges have been made recently, that some more could be added.
Alex(Prometheus)

23. december 2017 16:12
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Wow, good job on the badges Light Runner! I don't know if the Khan Academy staff will accept these, but I'll drop a link to this post so they see it, at least.

-Alex
Jett Burns

23. december 2017 18:11
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The badges look amazing, nice job. ;)
Duskpin Ultimate

23. december 2017 18:28
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I love them! I should probably post my Black Hole designs.
CarbonPenguin

23. december 2017 18:33
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Wow, the look great! I like the ones for the new unit mastery system the most - I think that as KA grows, it's badges should grow alongside too.
Redapple8787

23. december 2017 19:56
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Excellent designs!
Hopper Is Me

23. december 2017 21:48
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These are awesome badges! I hope they get added! :D
Nicholas

24. december 2017 05:14
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Wow! I like these designs! May I ask, which program did you use to make these designs?
Light Runner

24. december 2017 21:55

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Thank you Nicholas! I actually just programmed these on Khan Academy. Since I used to program various graphics using JS, I found it easier to just use what I was already familiar with.

The actual badges you see across KA are made using Illustrator and Sketch, in case you wanted to try your hand at professionally making some icons yourself :)
Redapple8787

24. december 2017 18:33
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I have an idea. For the Unit Mastery badges, maybe we could make it so that you need a certain level of mastery in multiple skills, say 5 or 10. That would reduce the number of these badges greatly and make it more fun to earn.
Light Runner

25. december 2017 01:10

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Good idea Red Apple! I was thinking about something similar. An example would be Kindergarten. The Kindergarten section has 3 "mini-sections"; Counting and place value, Addition and Subtraction, and Measurement and geometry. Maybe Sage, the highest unit mastery badge would be awarded once you achieved 100% in all three units? That way you would only get one set of badges instead of three sets.

The only problem would come with bigger sections. Statistics and Probability is a good example of that. Since it has 16 "mini-sections" you'd have to do 5 times the work to earn the same set of badges.

We'd have to see how they would approach this if they ever plan to implement the badges. Again, good suggestion :)
JavaLava

28. december 2017 18:29

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I find the unit mastery badge system suggestion interesting, but I also find the potential number of badges much too high. Instead, I suggest implementing a subject leveling system. Each subject page would have a side bar with:

• Unachieved badges: greyed-out

• Past achieved: colored but slightly greyed-out

• Current: colored with a bit of light shining from behind

KA could then add to the user profile a Subject Mastery pod, which would display the user's level for all started subjects among other related items (such as the total mastery achieved, helpful for gauging the distance to many badges).
Light Runner

28. december 2017 18:16
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Nice idea JavaLava! That's one way to fix the amount of badges that could possibly be earned by the Unit Mastery system. I'm a visual person so I quickly threw together some concepts of what your suggestion could look like.

The sidebar you said could look something like this. You just have to adjust the padding and dimensions of the "100% Unit Mastery" and add in the badge icons:

The user profile widget could have a similar look to either the badge counts or the showcase:

It could, as you suggest, show the amount of mastery in subjects that you have. (Along with the lower levels of mastery)

Great idea! Thanks for sharing it :)
Nicholas

29. december 2017 03:56
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I finally understood the unit mastery system! Yay! Now the thing about earning too many sets of badges. You could easily earn a whole lot of badges from that as there can be many sections, and many grades and other math subjects, ugh. So, what if a new badge category was added and the category is unit mastery badges?? There can be level 1: apprentice and explorer level 2: pioneer and adventurer level 3: sage I'm lazy and don't want to go through each math grade and subject counting how many badges you can earn from all that. I think it's best to leave everything to the KA team. They will decide what is best to do.
Light Runner

29. december 2017 20:24

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I just counted and there are 408 possible sections to get each 5 badges so 408 sections * 5 badges each section = 2,040 badges. So, instead of that, I was thinking something along the lines of the above graphic. Possibly once you get all your skills above Apprentice level, you get the Apprentice badge. That way you're only awarded one of each badge.

So, for example, these could be the requirements:

Apprentice: Take your first unit mastery test (or something like that)

Explorer: Achieve the level Explorer and above in all sections

Pioneer: Achieve the level Pioneer and above in all sections

Adventurer: Achieve the level Adventurer and above in all sections

Sage: Achieve Sage in all sections

That way you have to get 100% in all the sections in order to get the Sage badge. Yes it's harder to achieve, but I think that getting 5 badges is better than getting 2,040 extra badges. That might mean we'd have to bump up the levels of the badges (Like moving Sage up to a sun badge) but I don't think that'd be a problem. Anyways, you're right. If KA decides to implement these badges, I'm sure they'll be able to figure out the best way possible to award them.
Luke

31. december 2017 03:29
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Nice work, but maybe try to provide svg files? They can't just upload these with the press of a button if they aren't svg.
William

18. september 2018 23:18
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Here's my idea for a new badge. Archimedes is for earning 5,000,000 energy points. I hope they accept it!
Jackson Preston

13. maj 2019 17:09
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Some ideas for new badges:

Santa (Meteorite Badge)

Log on Khan Academy on Christmas Day

Hyperion (Sun Badge)

Remain a member of Khan Academy for 6 years

Poseidon (Black Hole Badge)

Earn 20,000,000 energy points

Miraculous Answer (Sun Badge)

Post an answer that earns 100+ votes
VEXCESS #BringBackBackgrounds

5. januar 2021 03:38

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I have been a member of khan academy for 10 years, and I think it would be great to have a for both 5 years and 10 years.
liyu197328

15. marts 2022 13:59
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My Black Hole Badge

Ten to the eighth: Earn 100,000,000 energy points.

Fibonacci: Reach mastery in 7500 skills

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