As admin, enable "Mobile services": Plugins ► Web Services ► Mobile Enable badges and course badges in advanced features Create a site level badge, award this badge to one student user In a course, create a course badge, award this badge to the same student user (must be enrolled in the course) Create a Token for a user other than the student: Click on Site administration ► Plugins ► Web services ► Manage tokens Login as the student user, go to their profile, access both badges and annotate the hash in the URL. Next, you can do a CURL REST call simulating a WS client with the student user. You need to call it twice (one for each badge), replacing the wstoken, hash (the uniquehash badge value) and the URL of your Moodle instance curl 'MOODLE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_badges_get_user_badge_by_hash&wstoken=$wstoken&hash=$uniquehash' --compressed Confirm that you receive the information of the badged, including the id and full name of the recipient (the student).