How to get the Discussion Badges?

Hi Roshan!

Here is a breakdown of how community discussion badges work, alongside a guide on earning the rest of the badge tiers on Khan Academy:

1. Community & Discussion Badges

These badges are awarded based on the upvotes your answers receive from other learners in the platform’s discussion sections:

• Good Answer (Moon Badge): Post an answer that receives 10+ votes.

• Great Answer (Earth Badge): Post an answer that receives 25+ votes.

• Incredible Answer (Earth Badge): Post an answer that receives 50+ votes.

Tips to earn them consistently:

• Look for recent questions in popular subjects (like Algebra or Biology) where learners are stuck.

• Provide thorough, step-by-step solutions rather than just giving the final answer.

• Use clean formatting and maintain an encouraging, polite tone.

2. Main Badge Categories & General Requirements

☄️ Meteorite Badges (Common)

Easily accessible badges earned when starting out.

• Focus: Completing initial skill practice, watching your first few videos, or starting short activity streaks.

🌙 Moon Badges (Uncommon)

Awarded for sustained effort and consistent study habits.

• Focus: Achieving basic mastery across skills, maintaining multi-day learning streaks, or accumulating moderate video watch time.

🌍 Earth Badges (Rare)

Require a significant commitment to learning or high community engagement.

• Focus: Reaching mastery on dozens of unique skills, watching long-form instructional content (e.g., 1,000+ minutes), or hitting higher voting milestones on discussion answers.

☀️ Sun Badges (Epic)

Reserved for long-term dedication across major learning pathways.

• Focus: Mastering hundreds of unique skills, maintaining multi-year account activity, or completing major course tracks.

🏆 Challenge Badges

Specialized badges awarded upon reaching specific platform milestones.

• Focus: Completing full unit tests, mastering entire subject tracks (e.g., High School Math), or completing programming project challenges.

Strategies to Target Every Category

1. Daily Streaks & Video Watching: Schedule 15–20 minutes of daily activity to build consecutive learning streaks and steadily gain watch-time hours toward Moon and Earth tier video badges.

2. Skill Mastery: Focus on completing Unit Tests and Course Challenges to raise skills from "Practiced" to "Mastered" efficiently rather than doing individual practice sets one by one.

3. Tracking Progress: Check your profile’s Badges tab to see your current badge progress and discover specific unlocked vs. locked requirements!

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask if you need details on specific badges.

WOW! That was quite.... great! It seems, like a lot of work. Thank you for your time, and answer! =)

It’s actually not that much work if you focus on what you’re doing and learn. For example, I’ve been here on Khan for 2 months, or 13 weeks to be exact, and I’ve got 37 meteorite, 8 moon, 1 earth and 3 Sun.

No, it's not great. There is false information in there because the post is AI-generated.

The part about "multi-day learning streaks" is wrong. The daily streaks were removed 5 years ago and the only streak badges are obtained after multi-week activity.

You cannot earn Earth badges or higher for watching videos. The longest non-retired video badge is a moon badge, "Awesome Listener", that is awarded for watching 60 minutes of video on a single topic.

You cannot earn Sun badges for "completing major course tracks". I'm not entirely sure what that means, but you never could.

Every challenge patch (incorrectly called a "challenge badge") not in the Computer Science courses was retired 6 years ago.

aruloly123034585,

Please don't trust AI to give correct information, and please label anything you share that was created by AI (especially if you don't verify the information).

Haha, I thought that it looked too neat, and a little off with some of the different ways to get badges! Like I noticed that some of it was incorrect. Lol. There’s my solution to that. 

It was AI generated?

Yes, it seems so. Especially since it had outdated material that is pretty obvious if you look at your badges. Also was a bit too organized to be written by the average person without a lot of spare time.

Oh yeah!

Thank you for seeing my post and responding! It was quite helpful.

No worries. I’m sure that you’ll have lots in no time at all.

Thank you so much! Just please don't forget to comment.

You’re welcome.

What do you mean? Why do I have to comment?

I don't know, sorry.

It’s fine. No need to apologize. I was just wondering why

Oh ok! =)

Quick question: Are you still going to do it?

Do what? (Sorry, I was offline for a while. Busy.)

Here are all the Discussion Badges:

• Good Answer (Moon Badge): Post an answer that receives 10+ votes.

• Great Answer (Earth Badge): Post an answer that receives 25+ votes.

• Incredible Answer (Earth Badge): Post an answer that receives 50+ votes.

• Good Question (Moon Badge): Ask a question that receives 10+ votes.

• Great Question (Earth Badge): Ask a question that receives 25+ votes.

• Incredible Question (Earth Badge): Ask a question that receives 50+ votes.

• Investigator (Earth Badge): Ask 10 questions that earn 3+ votes.

• Detective (Sun Badge): Ask 100 questions that earn 3+ votes.

• Excellent Teacher (Moon Badge): Post 5 answers that earn 3+ votes.

• Guru (Earth Badge): Post 10 answers that earn 3+ votes.

• Incredible Teacher (Earth Badge): Post 25 answers that earn 3+ votes.

• Sensei (Earth Badge): Post 50 answers that earn 3+ votes.

• Oracle (Sun Badge): Post 100 answers that earn 3+ votes.

• Bibliographer (Meteorite Badge): Reference a timestamp when asking a question on a video or program.

• Researcher (Meteorite Badge): Reference a timestamp when answering a question on a video or program.

• Thumbs Up (Meteorite Badge): Cast your first vote up for a helpful discussion post or program.

• Thumbs Down (Meteorite Badge): Cast your first vote down for an unhelpful discussion post or program.

• Flag Duty (Meteorite Badge): Flag your first discussion post on a video or program for a Guardian's attention.

adrielman13

Many of those are retired.