Thread:HMcCoy/@comment-25297120-20141029130948/@comment-24808864-20141029160056

Also, Category:3rd grade math: Addition and subtraction is not a Challenge Patch category. It is a subject subcategory.

The purpose of having the subject subcategories was to count the number of exercises in the subcategory.

The fact that it counts the number of exercises needed to earn a particular challenge patch was not the intention, but it is a nice side effect.

Your ideas:


 * 1) I agree with you, we don't want to make unused categories in general (although I already have some like Integral calculus: AP exercises because these have a challenge patch that presumably is going to be coming soon).
 * 2) Also, with retired badges, there is no need for a category at all because there is no need to count.
 * 3) Your final proposal sounds most attractive. A list of challenge patches (kind of like what I have in the table located here) Retired challenge patches would then be a separate list...

I am still at a conference so I am going to be busy for today and tomorrow, then I fly back to LA but will be busy this weekend. Let me think about this a little more and propose an idea as soon as I can. Maybe I can make a little time tonight to reflect on this. I am at an international Electronic Learning conference after all!