Some of the tools to use in course gamification

» Groups

» Progress Bar

» Checklist

» Certificate

» Activity Completion

» Conditional Access

» Badges

» Groups can have icons associated with them

» ICONS show up on forum posts ˃ (group icon block)

» Can manually assign students to a group ˃ Group, Batch

» Can programmatically assign to a group

» Example ˃ Moodle.org “Particularly Helpful Moodler”

» Set up the tracking

» Graphical progress bar to completion

» Indicators for completion, late and incomplete

» Create criteria list for progress

» Mark off the tasks / waypoints once complete

» Visual representation of achievements and work still to do

» Award a PDF certificate for download

» Can be linked to completion of activities, or grades using conditional access

» Configurable in design and content

» Activities and Resources have completion status

» Manually complete (student)

» Automatically complete by action ˃ forum post

˃ File upload

˃ View

» Displays tick-box on course overview page

» Uses Cron to process

» Restrict access to resource/activity/section

» Activity Completion

» Grade

» Time

» Profile field

“if a resumé or CV is a bunch of claims, Open Badges are a bunch of evidence” » Award graphical badges based on criteria

˃ Finishing a course, completing your profile, completing an activity in a course, ad-hoc assignment by teacher

» Learner can download or export badge ˃ Badge Backpack

» Badge holds metadata for verification » Learner can display badges elsewhere See http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/2013/05/06/open-badges-and-

moodle/

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