Recognize the contributors to your community through customizable badging and recognition. You can recognize event organizers, speakers, hosts, content authors, and custom contributors on their profiles and a new Contributor Page.
If you’d like to start recognizing your contributors with badges, reach out to the Gradual team to enable this feature in your community.
Configuring the Visibility of Community Contributions
From the dashboard, you can switch on or off the visibility of badges, rewards, the contributions listed on profiles, or the entire feature.
Turning on the contribution module visibility
By turning this feature on, all contributions and/or any enabled badges will appear on contributor profiles and on the contributor page (if enabled). To do this:
Navigate to Contributors → Contributions Settings and under Contribution Module Visibility, click on Edit.
Select Turned On and click on Save.
Turning off the contribution module visibility
By turning this feature on, no badges or contributions will appear on any profiles. To do this:
Navigate to Contributors → Contributions Settings and under Contribution Module Visibility, click on Edit.
Select Turned Off and click on Save.
Contribution Recognition Modes
There are now two modes to the contribution feature to allow you to offer your community contributors badging and acknowledgement, or a more robust mode with points and a rewards center.
Badges-only mode
This mode is available in all tenants and allows you to recognize contributors with badges, a contributor board, and some level of customization.
From the Contribution settings page, you can opt to enable the Contributors Page and the Community Card:
Points & Badges mode
This mode includes the badges feature plus the ability to assign points and offer a rewards center to your members. This mode is an additional element - reach out to the Gradual team if you'd like to add this module.
From the Contribution settings page, you can opt to enable the Contributors Page and the Community Card, plus enable a rewards center.
