What are Blue Ocean Brain Badges?

BOB Badges are milestone badges that you can add to your email signature to celebrate your learning achievements with Blue Ocean Brain.

If your organization has chosen to enable BOB Badges, you will receive an email containing your achievement and the website URL of your Badge for reaching a BOB Points milestone.

How do I earn Blue Ocean Brain badges?

How do I add my Blue Ocean Brain badge to my email signature?

How do I earn Blue Ocean Brain Badges?

Once you reach 500, 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 or 15,000 BOB points, you will receive a congratulatory email with instructions on how to add your newly earned badge into your email signature!

How do I add my Blue Ocean Brain Badge to my email signature?

Badges may be added to email signatures in Gmail and Outlook using the directions below.

Note: Signatures configured through applications on mobile devices are usually plain-text signatures. In this case, use a desktop device (i.e. PC or laptop) to add the BOB Badge to the email signature.

How to add a BOB Badge using Gmail

On a desktop device, after opening the Gmail account in the website browser, select "Settings" and then, "See all settings".
Under the General tab, scroll down to the Signature section.
On the selected signature, click in the Signature box to edit. Select the Picture icon to insert an image.
On the Add an image screen, select the Web Address (URL) tab. Copy the whole URL from the BOB Badge email and paste the URL in the Paste an image URL here box.
Click Select.
Click Save Changes.

How to add a BOB Badge using Outlook

Web Browser

Desktop App

On a desktop device, after opening the Outlook account in the website browser, select "Settings".

Under the Mail tab, select "Compose and reply".
On the selected signature, click in the Signature box to edit. Select the "Insert Picture Inline" icon to insert an image.
Copy the whole URL from the BOB Badge email and paste the URL in the File name box.
Select "Open".
Select "Save".

On a desktop device, after opening the Outlook app, select the Home tab at the top of the page.
Select "New Email".
In the top toolbar, select "Insert", then select "Signature", then "Signatures" in the drop down menu.
On the selected signature, click inside the Signature box to edit. Select the "Insert Picture" icon to insert an image.
Copy the whole URL from the BOB Badge email and paste the URL in the File name box.
Select "Insert".
Select "Save" and then "OK".

Apple Mail

Because all Signatures in Apple Mail are configured as plain text, BOB Badges can't be added to the signatures within the Apple Mail app.

Note: BOB Badge images can be added to HTML email signatures only. Badge images are unable to be added to plain-text signatures.