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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available.

What is a badged course?

While studying Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role you have the option to work towards gaining a digital badge.

Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from Open University courses because you do not receive support from a tutor, but you do get useful feedback from the interactive quizzes. You can share your achievement with friends, family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course.

How to get a badge

Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do:

  • read both sessions of the course
  • score 50% or more in the badge quiz in Session 2.

For both the Session 1 and Session 2 quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get one attempt). If you get the answer right first time you will get more marks than for a correct answer the second or third time. Therefore, please be aware that for the badge quiz at the end of Session 2 it is possible to get all the questions right but not score 50% and be eligible for the badge on that attempt. If one of your answers is incorrect you will often receive helpful feedback and suggestions about how to work out the correct answer.

For the badge quiz, if you’re not successful in getting 50% the first time, after 24 hours you can attempt the whole quiz again, and come back as many times as you like.

We hope that as many people as possible will gain an Open University badge – so you should see getting a badge as an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned rather than as a test.

If you need more guidance on getting a badge and what you can do with it, take a look at the OpenLearn FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge.

You can now go to Session 1.