Augusta Tech uses Blackboard Learn for all online classes. To ensure that everyone is comfortable with accessing and using Blackboard, Badge Training is a tutorial and assessment students are required to take before registering for an online class.
If you have questions about Badge Training, look for the answer below, or email distanceed@augustatech.edu and please include your name and student ID# in your email. Thanks!
Everyone who wants to take an online and blended course at Augusta Technical College.
A Badge is a virtual certificate of completion that a student earns by completing Badge Training. Badge Training is a series of online lessons which a student must complete to be eligible to enroll in online classes at Augusta Tech.
After you log into Blackboard with your student email and password, click on Badge under Organizations and self-enroll. If this is your first time signing in, you may need to set up your Okta account.The training course is free of charge. Watch this video demonstration of how to enroll in Badge Training.
Now! Badge Training is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with the exception of brief downtimes for maintenance.
No. The Badge is valid for 5 years.
Badge Training is an initiative by Augusta Tech to maintain our accreditation. The goal of Badge Training is to ensure students’ familiarity and comfort with the environment of an online class. The training will result in an increased rate of student success in online classes.
No, you must register before you can take Badge Training. You also must complete Badge Training by the end of the first week of the semester.
Yes. All students who plan to take online classes at Augusta Technical College are required to have a Badge.
About 2-3 hours. It can be saved and resumed as many times as necessary over a two week period.
Yes. Badge Training can be re-taken as many times as needed. Each test can be re-taken as many times as necessary within a two week period. Students who do not complete the Badge within 2 weeks will need to begin at the first unit again. Students who do not log in to the site will need to re-register for the training.
You will receive an email congratulating you on finishing Badge Training within two business days. Students can submit that email to their instructors as proof of completion.
No. Badge Training completion is noted in a student’s record, but it is not a credit course and does not appear on the student’s transcript.
No. Badge Training completion is noted in a student’s record, but it is not a credit course and does not appear on the student’s transcript.