This document outlines various tools that can be used for course gamification, including groups, progress bars, checklists, certificates, activity completion, and badges. Groups allow for icons and manual or automatic assignment of students. Progress bars provide a graphical representation of completion. Checklists mark off tasks as complete. Certificates can be awarded upon certain criteria. Activity completion, grades, time, and profile fields can control conditional access. Badges provide evidence of achievements and can be awarded for various criteria.
1. Some of the tools to use in course gamification
2. » Groups
» Progress Bar
» Checklist
» Certificate
» Activity Completion
» Conditional Access
» Badges
3. » 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”
4. » Set up the tracking
» Graphical progress bar to completion
» Indicators for completion, late and incomplete
5. » Create criteria list for progress
» Mark off the tasks / waypoints once complete
» Visual representation of achievements and
work still to do
6. » Award a PDF certificate for download
» Can be linked to completion of activities, or
grades using conditional access
» Configurable in design and content
7. » 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
8. » Restrict access to resource/activity/section
» Activity Completion
» Grade
» Time
» Profile field
9. “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/
