Add Badges to Your Kajabi Course with Gamify Lite

How to Use Badges in Your Kajabi Course

Adding badges to your Kajabi course is one of the simplest ways to keep students motivated. Every time a student earns one, it triggers a small dopamine boost — that "yes, I did it!" feeling that keeps them coming back for the next lesson. Locked, greyed-out badges work the same way in reverse: seeing an achievement they haven't unlocked yet taps into that natural urge to collect them all.

When should you add a badge?

You can create an unlimited number of badges with Gamify Lite, but that doesn't mean you should use them everywhere. Add one after every single lesson and they lose their special effect fast. Instead, save them for moments that actually matter:

• A welcome badge — the easiest way to make a strong first impression and make new students feel recognized from day one.
• After the final lesson of a module — to celebrate real progress.
• After passing a quiz — to reward the learning, not just the watching.
• For behavior you want to encourage — like subscribing to your emails, registering for an event, or purchasing an offer.

Badges are granted through automations that trigger on activity. Most badges are granted after a lesson is completed, but Kajabi lets you trigger them from almost any student action.

Designing your own Kajabi badges in Canva

A badge doesn't need to look like a scout patch — any image, styled to match your own brand, can become one. Here's the short version of how we design ours:

1. Start a new Canva design at 500x500px — plenty of resolution for a badge.
2. Build one base shape (a circle works well) in your brand color, and duplicate it for every badge so they all share the same look and feel.
3. Add your icon or image on top of each shape.
4. Create a second, greyed-out version of every badge for the "locked" state — either apply Canva's classic mono filter in your brand's grey tone, or simply add a question mark over the shape.
5. Download each badge as a PNG with a transparent background.
6. Run the PNGs through a free tool like Squoosh to convert them to WebP — this shrinks the file size significantly before uploading to Kajabi.

Connecting badges to automations in Kajabi

This is the part that actually brings your badges to life. In short: a student completes an activity, an automation grants them a free "badge offer," and the moment they own that offer, Gamify Lite automatically shows the unlocked badge instead of the greyed-out one.

Step by step:

1. Create a free offer for the badge (Offers → New Offer). Skip adding products, choose "free," and skip checkout customization — students never actually buy this offer, Kajabi just uses it as a trigger.
2. Add an automation to the lesson: when the lesson is marked complete, grant the badge offer you just created.
3. Connect the offer to the badge inside your Gamify Lite template settings, under the Gamify Badges section. Upload your colored badge image and your greyed-out version, link both to the offer, and give the badge a label.

That's the whole loop: lesson completed → offer granted → badge unlocked automatically. No manual work once it's set up.