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Sash

Sash is a badge issuing & hosting service that follows the metadata format of the awesome Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure project. Allows developers to stand up their own badging platform and integrate badge creation, issuing and displaying into their own products.

The Parts

In Sash everything is scoped to an Organization. When you start Sash up for the first time you will be asked to create an organization. The name and and password you choose here will be the login information you use to manage and track your badges.

Creating Badges

Sash provides a simple CRUD interface for creating and managing your badges. Upon creation badges are given a unique slug based on their name. Use this slug url to issue badges from your application.

Issuing Badges

Here is the general workflow for issue a badge: A user on your platform fufills criteria for earning badge. Your system makes a POST request to the unique badge URL generated by Sash, described above, with your organization's API key and the login or email of the user in your system. side call to Sash with user login or email to issue badge. The User is automatically initialized in the system if they don't exist (unique by username and organization), and the badge is issued to them.

Issue API

ENDPOINT: /issue/:badge-slug METHOD: POST PARAMS: api\_key username email: you may provide username, email or both tags (optional): Any metadata 'tags' that you want to associate to the uses, ie grouping info

Example Response:

{
  "earned": true,
  "badge": {
    "name":"Trailblazer",
    "image":"http://sash-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/badge-images/5035307c2508920200000008-original.png",
    "description":"Thanks for registering. Now get in there and learn something!",
    "criteria":"Register for the course",
    "version":"1.0.0",
    "slug":"trailblazer",
    "tags":["register","generic"],
    "issued_on":"2012-11-16T18:53:46.356Z",
    "seen":true,
    "id":"5035307c2508920200000008",
    "assertion":"http://badges.everfi.net/users/aa7e37bba4f93e5a09554d4f3c0d0ae9424dda4027061b87cbb2c1bbf5b0f660/badges/trailblazer"
  }
}

Displaying Badges

Sash provides a display API allows you to query out the badges for an individual User via JSON. By default badges are marked as 'unseen' by the User, this allows you to track which badges are new to the User and display a dialog to notify the user of a new badge. Sash also provides an API call for marking individual badges as seen.

Display API

Retreve a user's badges in JSON ENDPOINT: /badges.json' METHOD: GETPARAMS:usernameand oremail callback` (optional)

Example Response:

{
  "name":"Trailblazer",
  "image":"http://sash-badges.s3.amazonaws.com/badge-images/5035307c2508920200000008-original.png",
  "description":"Thanks for registering. Now get in there and learn something!",
  "criteria":"Register for the course",
  "version":"1.0.0",
  "slug":"trailblazer",
  "tags":["register","generic"],
  "issued_on":"2012-11-16T18:53:46.356Z",
  "seen":true,
  "id":"5035307c2508920200000008",
  "assertion":"http://badges.everfi.net/users/aa7e37bba4f93e5a09554d4f3c0d0ae9424dda4027061b87cbb2c1bbf5b0f660/badges/trailblazer"
}

Mark a badge as seen by the user ENDPOINT: /badges/:badge\_id/seen METHOD: GET PARAMS: username and or email callback (optional)

RESPONSE:

  { "success": true }

... More documentation to come

Technology behind Sash

Sash is builting using Node.js & CoffeeScript, on top of the delightful Express.js framework. Sash uses MongoDB for the database.

Ok COOL. How do I get started??

Install node.js 0.8.X

Install MongoDB & Redis

npm install to install package dependencies

run the server with bin/devserver

Status

Sash is currently under active development. If you want to get involved contact us @ [email protected]!

License

Sash is released under the MIT License