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Level Up XP - Gamification 🏅
Frédéric Massart ⭐Level Up XP
Gamify your Courses.
Engage Learners.
Increase Course Completion.
About XP
XP adds gamification to your Moodle courses. Learners receive points for their actions, visualise their progress, compete with others through a leaderboard, and unlock content based on their individual needs and experiences. Retain learners, increase completion, and provide a stimulating education experience!
25,000 websites and 8 million learners use the plugin! *
Why XP?
XP is the most popular gamification offer on Moodle with around 25,000 sites and 8 million learners using the plugin. Whether you are in charge of continuous training at your company, a university instructor looking to decrease drop-out rates, or a teacher who wants to provide a more engaging, fun learning environment, XP has you covered.
With XP you have complete control of your learners' pathways: decide what content they can access and which courses use gamification elements.
Built-in Features
Try XP and increase learning outcomes with the following features:
Motivate learners through experience points and individual leaderboards
- Automatically attribute points to learners for their actions
- Block that displays current level and progress towards next level
- A leaderboard to show the ranking of the learners
- Notifications to congratulate learners as they level up
Keep track of progress and steer their learning experience
- Report for instructors to get an overview of their learners' levels
- Ability to customise the number of levels, the points they require, and their appearance
- Total control over the points earned per action
- Experience points earned per course, or for the entire site
- Support for shortcodes to include in content
- Unlock content when a certain level is reached
XP is fully GDPR compliant and has been certified as a privacy-friendly plugin.
92% of our surveyed customers would recommend XP to their colleagues!
XP+ Features
Get serious about creating a fun learning environment! XP+ comes with even more personalisation options, the inclusion of team leaderboards, and more data evaluation possibilities. In addition to all XP features, XP+ allows you to:
Use the full potential of the Leaderboard
- Create team leaderboards to increase team cohesion or competitiveness
- Export leaderboards for data analytics
Award points for
- Course behaviour
- Learning activities
- Course completion
Create an Individual Learner Pathway
- Drops: award points by placing code snippets anywhere in your course
- Award a badge on level up
- Grade-based rewards
- Individual rewards (e.g. for punctuality) and personalised notes
- Limit learners' rewards (e.g. limit points for repeated actions)
- Progress bar can display progress toward the next or ultimate level
- Additional default-level badges
Implement New Design Features for an Engaging Learning Experience
- Substitute experience points for other symbols
- Viewing the block on someone's profile displays their level
Do even more…
- Implement resilient cheat guard
- Course selection, and activity name, rules
- Import points from a CSV file
- Export logs and reports for easy data evaluation
- Receive email support
Still curious? Visit our website for more information on XP+.
Join thousands of educators,
and gamify your courses
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What's new?
We constantly add new features and updates to our plugins. Here are some of the highlights of our recent releases:
- Compatibility with Moodle 4.4
- New and improved way to set completion rules (XP+)
- Admins can reset levels in courses to the defaults
- Award badge on level up (XP+)
- For more, see the latest release notes
How are experience points calculated? How do I unlock new courses? How do I use shortcodes? Deep dive into XP's offers and learn how to use our features here.
Please report any issues, problems, or feature requests on the issue tracker. Thanks! 
* based on our own usage statistics.
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We are currently testing Level Up in some pilot courses on our system. A problem has occurred for which we have no explanation or solution. Maybe someone here can help me with this.
Students should get 10xp in a course for clicking a H5P element and a file. The rules are therefore:
10xp if at least one condition is fulfilled: H5P - course module displayed
10xp, if at least one condition is fulfilled: File - Course module displayed
To avoid that repeated clicks do count several times, the instructor has set as rules for the Cheat Guard:
max. 1 action per 5 minutes
999999 minutes interval between two identical actions
However, the students seem to get points for each click on the H5P element and the file. What could be the reason for this? Is it linked to sessions? Although, if you take a look at the logs you can see that some actions are spread over several days, but others are within the usual session time (4 hours). If the users haven't logged out themselves, this should not be the reason.
Or is the value 999999 too high, i.e. the block cannot process this and an internal max. limit applies here? Because actually only the plus version should be helpful for longer periods of time: "This cheat guard is not designed to cover long time frames. Please consider upgrading to Level up! Plus to unlock greater time frames and other features".
The Level Up documentary does not really help. It just says "Note: it happens that Moodle's event definition tricks Level up! into thinking that two actions are not identical. If you notice that some events are not being caught by the cheat guard, you may want to add a specific rules to ignore them." But what kind of rule this should be is not clear to me.
Maybe someone can point me to the solution?
Kind regards
Harald
The cheat guard in the free version is meant to prevent abuse, but it's not robust enough to prevent repetitions. It keeps track of a set of previously taken actions in a queue, first in, last out. When the queue gets to a certain size, it discards the last elements for performance and memory consumption reasons. From that point, previous actions may award points again. The reason why the time frame unit cannot be set beyond "minutes" is because it's not meant to cover long time frames, as it won't produce the desired effects. The message you are seeing is displayed for that exact reason.
We are voluntarily obscure on the exact mechanics of the cheat guard in the free version as to not publicly disclose how to abuse the system.
The note "it happens that Moodle's event definition tricks Level up! into thinking that two actions are not identical." is related to how Moodle core developers have created and/or used the events that the plugin observes. Each event comes with a set of properties that the plugin relies on, it may happen that these properties are too vague and thus _Level up!_ may treat two separate actions as identical. On the other hand, it happens that somes properties are too specific, and thus what we (humans) would consider identical is not perceived by the plugin as identical. This would only be a concern if you noted that specific events were counted more then usual, or not when they should have been. Both cases only apply to repetitions, or lack there of, of events with the exact same name.
Kind regards,
Fred
Is there a small HTML code snippet, which will display the current user's actual star level? I am doing a little customization and just want to add the current star to the sidebar.
Thanks.
Yes, you can use the shortcode "xpbadge" (see here: https://levelup.plus/docs/article/using-shortcodes), alternatively here are some functions that you may find useful: https://gist.github.com/FMCorz/2e6d29c8dda5ec9d6d6c349d6b2e8528
Kind regards,
Fred
This is an amazing plugin but i have one question. Is it possible to set level up only when a student completes the quiz and not when he enters? thanks
Is it possible that only the names of the students appear in the ranking? Now the surname also appears.
Thank you
We are considering purchasing this plugin for moodle and have been fiddling around with the free version.
I have two inquiries :
1- In the pro version, how exactly does the grade based reward work, how are the rules set, do I set experience points for a specific grade range on a specific activity?
2- How does the Levelup plugin work with Moodle lessons,
I would like to give students exp points when finishing a specific percentage of the lesson ( like when a student finishes 20% of lesson give him 20exp, 50% give him 50exp etc... )
And lastly I want to try the pro version before purchasing, is there a demo version or something that I can test it on ?
Thanks in Advance,
Lina
1/ The grade-rules are a 1 to 1 relationship between the grade received and the points given. If a student gets a grade of 80, they get 80 points. Yes, uou can target specific grade items (activities). More on this here: https://levelup.plus/docs/article/grade-based-rewards
2/ Level up! observes the completion state provided by Moodle itself, which is either completed or not. At present it is not capable of awarding students based on the completion level of a Lesson module.
Please email us at support at levelup.plus, we will email you a demo access.
Thank you!
Fred
I always make good use of it. Thank you.
I'm using Moodle 3.9.
In one course I put it in, the gear marks in the block editor disappeared and I couldn't move or hide places.
In the other courses, the gear marks are still there.
Can you think of any possible causes?
Thanks
Mami Mori
Thanks for the quick reply!
I am the Moodle Administrator on this moodle.
I have checked the permissions and they are fine.
All the other blocks on a problematic course has geared, only LevelUp block is not.
Why is that?
Mami