What are HSI Blue Ocean Brain Badges?

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

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

How do I earn HSI Blue Ocean Brain badges?

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

How do I earn HSI 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 HSI 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. We recommend using a desktop device (i.e. PC or laptop) to add the HSI BOB Badge to the email signature.

How do I add a HSI 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 do I add a HSI 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, HSI BOB Badges can't be added to the signatures within the Apple Mail app.

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