Level Up XP - Gamification 🏅

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Maintained by Frédéric Massart ⭐
🔥 🤩 The easiest way to add gamification to your Moodle site! Engage your learners! Gamify their learning experience to increase participation and completion rates. #gamification #engagement
Latest release:
9869 sites
3k downloads
606 fans
Current versions available: 4

Level Up XP

Gamify your Courses.
Engage Learners.
Increase Course Completion.

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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 today!

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 4.3
  • Award a Moodle badge on level up (XP+)
  • Display the level in the top navigation bar
  • Congratulation message 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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Contributors

Frédéric Massart ⭐ (Lead maintainer)
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  • Diego Santos
    Tue, 26 Jan 2016, 4:19 AM
    Hi Frédéric! First of all, congratulations for the plugin. It's absolutely nice. I'm facing a simple situation and kindly ask for your help. I've several activities in a course, that are manual completed (checked) or automatically (when the student views the activity). But each time the student view the activity or uncheck it and check again as complete, it gains points (of course, respecting the "Cheat guard" time parameters). How can I avoid this situation? In other words, how can I configure the plugin to accept (and count points) only the first time the student complete a certain activity? Thanks in advance. Best wishes.
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Mon, 1 Feb 2016, 12:30 PM
    Hi Diego,

    Unfortunately you can't. It's an interesting problem so it would be helpful if you could file it as an improvement request on https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues . Others may comment and express their interests in seeing this improved.

    Thanks!
    Fred
  • Artem Zernov
    Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 3:32 AM
    Hi all! I'm having trouble accessing the rules page. It is completely blank. All other pages look good. Has anyone had a similar problem?
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 11:58 AM
    Hi Artem,

    No, that is not something that I am aware of. There must be a bug which your Moodle administrator should be able to identify. Once identified could you please report it at https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues

    Thank you,
    Fred
  • Éva Rácz
    Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 4:18 PM
    Hi Frédéric,

    I just updated from 2.2 to 3.0 and while at it I also installed this awesome plugin. Is there any way to calculate xp points for past quiz attempts? I don't mind manually digging into the database if need be, I just need to know where to start. (I suppose it's mdl_block_xp.xp and mdl_block_xp.lvl that have to be updated but I'd like to calculate the points consistently with your algorithm, not just just use something I make up.)

    The second (set of) question(s) is about the rules. Basically, the course is simple we're talking of is simple: it only contains a number of quizzes, each of which can be attempted multiple times. I would like to give either a fixed number of points for each finished attempt/the number of points a person reached in that particular attempt. I have found a way to do the former version, but not the latter when editing the rules. Is there one? Plus, I guess it would be nice to be able to subtract points if a person hasn't viewed the course for a while. Also I don't understand the default rules, does CRUD stand for create-read-update-delete? So the default rules apply to the crud of any kind of activity/resource within course?

    Thanks,
    Éva
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 6:11 PM
    Hi Éva,

    The plugin is not meant to be used to attribute XP based on achievements, but based on participation. Though you can, as you thought, change the XP of a user with your own bit of PHP code. I would suggest crafting a query to increase block_xp.xp value, then do the following:

    $manager = block_xp_manager::get($courseid);
    $manager->update_user_level($userid);

    Currently, there is no way to set a rule that changes the XP depending a number of attempts. Yes, CRUD are for Create Read Update and Delete, and they apply only on events of type "Participating", for example CRUD a forum post, or an assignment, ...

    Cheers,
    Fred
  • Filip Czarnecki
    Wed, 24 Feb 2016, 9:31 PM
    Plugin does not work for cron events (\core\event\course_completed etc). Any ideas on how to achieve this?
  • Lee Keller
    Thu, 25 Feb 2016, 12:15 AM
    Excellent block. Easily configured. Great information. Enjoyed by my students! This is the best gamification block out there... so far. Works even in an environment using MS SQL!
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Thu, 25 Feb 2016, 10:17 AM
    Filip, I should have a look at this. Could you possibly raise an issue at https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues?

    Lee, thanks a lot for your feedback!
  • Glauco Porciuncula
    Thu, 25 Feb 2016, 8:26 PM
    Hello Frederic! A problem in my moodle 2.9 with the latest version of Level Up: Regardless of the value (in this case I put 31104000 seconds), the Cheat Guard does not work from one day to the another day. What can be happening?
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Fri, 26 Feb 2016, 9:32 AM
    Hi Glauco, the cheat guard is weak in the sense that it is attached to a session and therefore does not persist across days. That decision was made on purpose to avoid a negative impact on performance. If this feature is something that is really required for you, please raise an issue here: https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues Thanks!
  • Dragan Kovačević
    Sat, 27 Feb 2016, 4:44 AM
    Hi, I installed your plugin on my Moodle website, and added the block in my course. When I click on any of the hyperlinks at the bottom of the block, I get a 404 not found message. Have you any Idea what mignt be wrong?

    Best regards,
    Dragan
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Mon, 29 Feb 2016, 10:11 AM
    Hi Dragan. No idea where this is coming from, please make sure that you copied all the files from the plugin.
  • Miguel Cetina
    Sun, 6 Mar 2016, 11:33 AM
    Hi there

    I am having problems tu configurate the block, only allow me to choose if it will be use in the entire web or only in courses. I can not choose the configuration of levels, it says Internal Server Error but I have no idea where is the error.

    Thanks
  • Nichole Carpenter
    Mon, 7 Mar 2016, 2:25 AM
    I have setup my rules and levels and have enabled completion tracking and have completed activities as a student but when I go to the logs in Level Up! its says "nothing to show". Is there something I am missing?
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