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# How to Enable Badges

# How to Enable Badges

**In this article:**
* Overview
* Before you start
* How to enable Badges
* Things to keep in mind
* FAQs
* Who can do this

## Overview
Badges are visual awards your learners earn for reaching milestones — completing learnings, accumulating points, or clocking up learning time. They give your people something to aim for and a way to show off what they've achieved. Badges are part of SuperPath's Gamification features, so they only become available once Gamification is switched on.

This article covers how to enable Badges. Once they're on, you can start building your own — see *How to Create a Badge*. To understand what triggers a badge to be given out, see *When are Badges Awarded?*

## Before you start
Badges live inside Gamification, so the **Badges** section only appears once **Gamification is enabled** for your account. If you don't see it, turn Gamification on first — see *How to Enable Gamification*.

When you first enable Gamification, Badges are switched on for you automatically, and the **Enable badges** toggle appears so you can manage them independently from then on.

## How to enable Badges
1. Go to **Settings → Gamification**.
2. Make sure **Enable gamification on your account** is turned on. The **Badges** section appears below the Gamification settings.
3. In the **Badges** section, turn on the **Enable badges** toggle.
4. Click **Save** in the editing bar at the top of the page to store the change.

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Once saved, the badge list and a **Create badge** button appear, ready for you to start creating badges.

## Things to keep in mind
* Badges depend on Gamification. The **Badges** section only appears while Gamification is enabled; if Gamification is turned off, Badges go with it.
* Changes are staged until you click **Save** — the toggle won't take effect until then.
* Turning Badges off makes all badge-related features unavailable and stops any further badges from being awarded.
* Creating and editing individual badges is a separate task — see *How to Create a Badge*.

## FAQs
**Why don't I see the Badges section?**
The Badges section only shows when Gamification is enabled. Turn on **Enable gamification on your account** first, then the **Badges** section (with the **Enable badges** toggle) appears below it.

**Are Badges enabled automatically when I turn on Gamification?**
Yes. Enabling Gamification switches Badges on at the same time, and a separate **Enable badges** toggle appears so you can turn them on or off independently afterwards.

**How do I create a badge once Badges are enabled?**
Turning on **Enable badges** reveals the badge list and a **Create badge** button. See *How to Create a Badge* for the full walkthrough.

## Who can do this
Only **Owners** and **Admins** can enable Badges. The Gamification and Badges settings live under **Settings**, and access to all Settings pages is restricted to Owners and Admins — **Managers**, **Content Managers**, **People Managers**, **Instructors**, **Employees** and **Restricted** users can't reach them, regardless of any other permission.