Level UP! block is a add-on for gamification of courses. Students receive experience point for completed activities and other tasks on a course. After a set amount of XPs students level up. This is a way to motivate students to gather points by fulfilling activities. Teacher can configure course to be completed when a set amount of experience points is collected or a certain level reached. Teacher can set how points are received and how many levels does the course have.
Level UP! block looks as follows on a course
Level UP! block has link to following tabs in page view
- Info – Levels and the XPs needed to achieve it
- Ladder – Current levels of the students and their progress
- Report – Add or remove XPs from the students
- Settings – Set rules for amounts of same consecutive actions and control Cheat guard options.
Level UP! page view also has following tabs: Log (activities worth XPs of users), Levels (name of the levels and XPs neede to reach them), Visuals (custom images for reached levels) and the most important tab Rules
Rules tab allows to create the rules how the points are earned. In example below student receives 15XPs from each of pictured activities. It is also possible to define point rewards that i.e. require students to complete all the word tests to achieve bonus XPs.
