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So does it mean that you can never collect a badge?

It just comes to you in some way if you have contributed enough in that group or something?

With mission badges, if you complete the set of tasks for that mission you get awarded with the badge in your user profile. So you can collect mission badges by going out and completing the tasks.

The only badges that appear in the Places activity section appear to be mission badges which have been related to that Place.

I've only got three mission badges that appear under places:

• the 'CodeBug' badge under the 'Codebug' place
• the 'micro:bit' badge under the BBC micro:bit place
• the 'Support Helper Level 1' badge under the 'Feedback and Support' place

I'm still relatively new to the community site however, so there may be a few others which show up under places.

The points in the places activity section are awarded on general activities on the site such as replying to discussions, taking part in polls, etc. There is a page which outlines in detail what activities gain what amount of points and how many you can claim in one day:

Your Ranking: element14 Community Badges, Levels & Points

(select the 'Points for Activities' tab)

If you go to the top right of the browser page and open the drop down menu next to your name (to the left of the 'Create' drop down menu), then click on reputation and points, it should open up to a summary of your activities and missions. If you click on Missions on the left, it lists all the different badges that you can earn, and their points, and tracks how close you are to fulfilling those missions. If you click on the bottom right of each of the badges they turn over and reveal more details on the different activities necessary to earn those badges, and which ones you have already done. I hope that helps you snidhi - then it also becomes easy to see what courses are on offer, etc, and how you are progressing through them.

...and what a great set of icons have been used :-)

Rod

Thanks Nigel. yes I know how missions work. pretty simple. Got quite a few missions done actually early on.

My original question is only about the Badges which seem to work different from missions.

Cheers

You obtain badges by completing missions.

Your question appeared to be more about the points in places though and then the connection between places and mission badges.

Perhaps you could rephrase the question if you are still confused about this.

Thanks everyone

worrying about points is not going to get anyone anywhere.

I just asked out of curiosity

Yes, I think I got the hang of it.

Cheers

Thanks to Nigel and Dave, I have got the point finally.

Doing is learning

finally I see something here

I see being less active for the last quarter has dropped me down the rankings from 7th to 9th. Perhaps I should join in the next design challenge and ignore the family who claimed they would change the door locks if I did!

find middle ground by starting a bluetooth enabled diy doorlock project...