# 'Grant Badge' What is this?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-badge-what-is-this/240654
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 2, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-badge-what-is-this/240654 "2022-10-02T15:33:10Z")
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### Author: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-badge-what-is-this/240654/2 "2022-10-02T15:43:33Z")

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> [@Grant a badge to individual users manually](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-badge-to-individual-users-manually/29426):
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> bookmark This is a guide for manually granting a custom badge to individual users on Discourse. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and manually grant a custom badge to individual users. A new “Scholar” badge will be created as an example. warning This guide is only applicable for custom badges. To manually grant one of Discourse’s built in badges, you will need to follow: [Bulk Award a badge to a set of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/award-a-badge-to-a-set-of-users/138694)Create a …

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