Waze Academy: Updated ‘Traffic Events and Road Closures’ Course Now Available 🚧

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Hi Wazers!

We are happy to share that the Traffic Events and Road Closures Course has been officially updated with new content and three new videos for both partners and editors.

Check out this beautiful new video as part of the course:

What’s New in the January 2026 Update? This update ensures everyone has access to the most current processes and tools for effectively managing major traffic events.

  • New Video Content: An intro video specifically for partners, plus two detailed tutorials on adding/editing Traffic events and Road Closures..
  • New Traffic Event Categories:: Added “Local Driving Advisory” and “Unplanned Disruption.”
  • New Traffic Event Types: Introduced “Polygon-Based” and “Polygon and Closure-Based” event types.
  • Updated Protocols: Revised push notification time requirements and guidelines for the “Turn off traffic detection” box (previously “HOV/Service Road adjacent”).
  • New Tools: Added functionality to duplicate road closures and repeat closures for the following day.
  • Additional Features: Turn Closures and Node Management

Hope you will find this course helpful!

Thanks,
Shira on behalf of the Communities Team

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Local driving advisory is a great addition that would help a lot :tada::tada:. thanks for the improvements and the great video.

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we depend on these courses for upgrading editors levels, any editor with the earning badge of these courses is required for upgrading as local system in Iraq, so please make sure the badge appears on the user profile, thanks

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i completed this section, but it still does not show as completed

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Hi @aseele ,

That is great to hear! It is excellent that you are using these courses as a benchmark for leveling up editors in Iraq.

Regarding the badges – absolutely. We add a specific badge to the profile of anyone who completes the course.

You can see an example of how it looks here.

Thanks!
Shira

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Thanks for the feedback. Will check it!

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I completed some of these courses but the badges still not on my profile

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Did you receive the course congratulation email?

It contains the link to the form you needed to submit for the badge.

If not, please send me an email: shirak@google.com with the missing badges.

Thanks!
Shira

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Ok thanks I will send email, should I tell other editors to send you email also? Because they need the badges to be upgraded

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Yes, they can reach out to me via email.

Thank you, Shira

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Completed the course. Excellent refresher! And the short YouTube videos very informative. I even picked up a couple new tips at becoming even more proficient submitting TE’s and RTC’s. Thanks!

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So nice to read your feedback! Thank you for sharing and glad the course is helpful :blush:

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Let us know if you have any more courses scheduled for release. I’ll keep it on the radar.. Good work!

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I saw your post and I’m very interested in how you use the badges for level up.. are you willing to give more details… maybe do a separate post? Thanks