Level Up XP

Each learner starts at the first level. How far can they go?

• Choose how many levels learners can attain; you can create up to 99 levels.
• Set the difficulty to increase between each level, or use our algorithm.
• Give each level an enticing name and description to lure learners in.

The progress bar shows learners how far they are in the current level, and how close they are to getting to the next level.

The information collected by the Moodle plugin is contained within the Moodle installation and is never transmitted, communicated, or shared with us or third parties. The mechanisms for attributing points, generating the leaderboard, sending notifications, etc. are executed within Moodle itself.

The plugin conforms to Moodle's requirements for GDPR and data privacy compliance and has been certified as privacy-friendly.

Give learners a nudge and cheer them on with a pop-up notification when they reach their goals.

Perfect to celebrate their milestones and motivate them to go even further!

The level of a learner is displayed on all pages next to their profile picture in the top navigation bar. This links a learner's current level with their identity and makes it easy for them to see how far they have come.

This feature is great to fully immerse learners in the gamification experience and to encourage them to level up.

Hint at what the next level looks like and what it may unlock.

Create a personalised experience by giving the levels a value that speaks to your audience!

A summary shows learners the points they recently earned, and what actions lead to the reward.

By default, learners have a separate level and total of points in each course.

The sitewide application means that learners will instead only have a single level, and a single set of points.

This also applies to the leaderboards which will apply across the whole site.

Use our easy-to-use code snippets to embed and spread the gamification elements across your learning platform.

Our shortcodes support the inclusion of the leaderboards, nicely formatted points, the appearance of badges, etc. just about anywhere you may see fit.

Those snippets can also be used to modify the content on-the-fly by conditionally displaying or hidding content based on a learner's level!

Trigger your learners' competitive spirit by incorporating a ranking based on their experience points.

A snapshot of the leaderboard is visible to the learners at all times. That's perfect to give them a feel for where they stand.

The leaderboard can also be embedded in any page of the LMS.

This leaderboard feature allows instructors to make participation optional, offering the flexibility to set leaderboards as either opt-out or opt-in.

In opt-out mode, learners can choose to remove themselves, providing autonomy for those who prefer a less competitive environment. On the other hand, the opt-in mode welcomes learners who enjoy competition, allowing them to engage according to their preferences.

Administrators can enforce these settings to ensure alignment with organisational policies.

Isolate groups of individuals from one another by simulating multiple independent leaderboards.

This feature is especially useful in a multi-tenancy environment where some users should not compete against each other.

Note: This feature requires the use of Moodle cohorts.

Is the competition too intense for some? Or is there a need to anonymise the leaderboard for privacy reasons? We have you covered!

With XP+, you can also partially anonymise the leaderboard by only revealing the first name and initials of learners. That makes it a bit more personal without disclosing too much!

Leaderboards can be fun, but not always for those who fall behind.

Options are available to mitigate the potential negative effect that competition can have on some learners.

For instance, you can limit the leaderboard to only show a subset of competitors, or decide to obfuscate each individual's ranks, and even more.

Create a leaderboard made of teams competing against one another. Each learner will contribute to their team's total points. The teams can be created from course groups or cohorts.

This feature creates a collaborative and friendly competitive environment for learners to push themselves and help each other.

A simpler and clearer way to award points for the actions that matter.

Pick the action, choose the points, and you already have a rule that makes sense. From there, you can narrow it down to a specific activity, a section, or tagged activities, and decide how often points can be earned.

With XP+, you can create an unlimited number of rules and conditions, giving you much finer control over how points are awarded.

Observe the events broadcasted by the LMS and award points accordingly.

Build simple, or complex, rules to determine what actions learners must take to deserve their points.

Award points for completing activities.

Activity completion is a powerful feature of Moodle, providing instructors with granular settings to define what a learner must accomplish for their activity to be completed.

Tailor and control when and how learners earn points to create an individualised learning experience.

Award points for completing courses.

When a training program includes several courses, create an engaging learning experience by rewarding learners that achieve a big milestone such as completing a course.

Transform grades received for activities such as quizzes into points.

This method enables instructors to award points based on the performance of a learner. This should be used with caution as using performance, and not course behaviour, as an engagement tool can demotivate students.

Directly award additional points to any particular learner.

Awarding points (f.e. for punctuality) is a great way to recognise a particular individual's effort and accomplishments. Combined with an optional message, the feature can deliver an encouraging note when a little extra motivation is needed.

Control how often points can be earned to keep rewards meaningful.

Set clear limits such as three times in total, five times per day, or once per month. This helps prevent repeated low-value actions from piling up too many points.

Apply the same points across multiple activities by using tags.

Create one rule, tag the relevant activities, and they will all follow the same setup. It is a simple way to keep things consistent across your learning content.

Award points when a learner receives a certificate from the Custom certificate plugin.

This is a great way to recognise a final achievement and give learners an extra reward at the end of an important milestone.

With Drops, an instructor can individualise the learning experience of their courses. Drops are code snippets that can be included anywhere in Moodle. When a learner encounters these Drops, they receive the number of points associated with that particular Drop.

Import points directly from a spreadsheet.

This feature is especially useful when conducting offline activities where learners earn points for their participation.

The import feature also supports attaching a message to the reward, which makes it a neat tool to send out a little extra motivation.

Enhance the visual appeal of your gamified learning environment by customising the appearance of levels. You can adjust the design, colour scheme, icons, and more to match your branding or thematic elements.

This feature allows you to create a unique and engaging learning path, making the experience more immersive and memorable for your learners.

Design your own gamification experience by replacing the XP symbol of the experience points with another symbol. Instead of regular points, learners could earn your company's logo, thumbs up, stars, diamonds, or anything else.

This is a fantastic way to fit the gamification experience to your audience and can also be used to distinguish courses and programs from each other.

Award Moodle badges when a user attains a particular level.

Offer an additional incentive for progressing and reaching a level by tying in this existing feature of the LMS.

Include a custom congratulation message with the level up notification.

This is a great way to reinforce learners' engagement and motivation by celebrating them even further.

You may also use this method to communicate additional information to learners, or to tease an upcoming reward.

Choose from a selection of pre-designed level badges to quickly set up your gamification experience.

Our library also includes a variety of symbols to replace the default XP points symbol.

Check on the status of your learners and their overall progress.

Reset or change their points as you see fit.

Create custom reports from learner data, such as points, levels, and more.

Level Up XP can be used as a data source in Moodle's powerful built-in custom reporting tool.

• Create rankings and aggregations tailored to your requirements
• Make reports accessible to any audience, including learners
• Identify underperforming or inactive learners
• Periodically send reports to staff via email

Download everything into your favourite spreadsheet software to process it, analyse it, or do whatever you may need to effectively run your training program.

This includes the full list of students along with their level and points, both the individual and team leaderboards, and even the logs containing the details about each individual reward received.

Access a detailed history of all the actions performed by learners that ultimately lead to receiving points.

Use a learner's level to decide which parts of the content are accessible to them!

Use this technique as a reward mechanism, for instance by unlocking access to a VIP section after a certain level is attained.

You can also support learners who appear to be falling behind by displaying a motivational message or providing access to remedial content.

Automatically enrol a learner in any given course when they have attained a certain level. This is ideal for creating a chain of learning materials or enrolling someone in a course as a reward.

Award points as a reward for completing quests and challenges.

Complete objectives when learners attain a certain level, or after collecting a certain amount of points.

Learners can conveniently access essential information directly within the Moodle mobile app.

Through the app, they can monitor their current level, total points, and progress towards the next level.

Moreover, they can stay competitive with access to leaderboards.

Give points to learners from external services using the web services API.

This is a great way to integrate XP with actions occurring outside the LMS. This also allows you to retrieve the points and level of learners from the API.

Install XP on your staging and testing environments under the same licence.

Validate updates and configuration changes in a safe environment before they reach your learners, keeping your live site stable and your team confident.

Deploy and use XP without restrictions in isolated environments, such as intranets, private networks, and even air-gapped networks.

Organisations with strict security requirements or those operating in highly regulated industries will particularly benefit from this due to its enhanced protection and compliance capabilities.

Access the full suite of Behat and PHPUnit tests for XP.

Run them against your Moodle instance to verify that XP behaves correctly before deploying updates, and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline for continuous quality assurance.

Ideal for development teams with automated testing workflows or strict change management requirements.

Gain access to our Git repository, allowing you to efficiently manage, deploy, and automatically access the latest versions, seamlessly integrating them into your deployment pipeline.

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