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Life & fun · December 23, 2010

We just launched badges for Khan Academy

Yesterday we added a brand new badging incentive system to the Khan Academy. It's really simple for now, round 1, blah blah all that jazz. We're dealing with all types of internal debates about proper behavior to encourage and how users will respond. We've seen students in schools get extremely excited about very, very simple game mechanics attached to their practice problems/homework/etc, and building the roots of a deeper badging system seemed like an important next step to help us guide users through desired paths in the system. You can check out all of our badges here…

We just launched badges for Khan Academy launched on December 23, 2010 with 8 votes, #36 of 98 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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Yesterday we added a brand new badging incentive system to the Khan Academy. It's really simple for now, round 1, blah blah all that jazz. We're dealing with all types of internal debates about proper behavior to encourage and how users will respond. We've seen students in schools get extremely excited about very…

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