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
607 fans
Current versions available: 5

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 4.4
  • 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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Contributors

Frédéric Massart ⭐ (Lead maintainer)
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  • Mike Ross
    Mon, 14 Sept 2015, 6:51 PM
    Please check and tell me if there is any bug in rules section because I can't see a rules section in block settings just giving me a blank page.
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Mon, 14 Sept 2015, 6:54 PM
    Hi Mike,

    I am afraid that I cannot reproduce this bug. Could you please ask your administrator to inspect the logs for eventual errors, and then raise an issue here https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues ?

    Cheers!
    Fred
  • Mike Ross
    Mon, 14 Sept 2015, 7:46 PM
    Thanks, a lot, Man! It's working just fine
    Only one problem that a student is not able to see it on the dashboard.
    Is it a bug?
    any suggestion
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Tue, 15 Sept 2015, 11:49 AM
    I have had a few people reporting this, I am not sure how to track it down. Could you check the permissions of your students? Maybe it's just a setting that you need to turn on in the "Settings" tab.
  • Jacques Barzic
    Fri, 18 Sept 2015, 5:42 PM
    Hi,
    congratulations for this nice plugin!

    I use it on Moodle 2.7.
    I have an error, but I'm not sure that a Level Up "bug".
    On the "Report" target there is a "Reset course data" button.
    When I clic on this button and on the following page I clic on "Continue" I obtain an error message : "Error writing to database" (see also the debug mode message below).

    Any suggestion ?
    Jacques.

    The debug mod message:
    Debug info: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'b WHERE b.courseid = '1'' at line 1
    DELETE FROM mdl_block_xp b WHERE b.courseid = ?
    [array (
    0 => 1,
    )]
    Error code: dmlwriteexception
    Stack trace:

    line 446 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_write_exception thrown
    line 974 of \lib\dml\mysqli_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
    line 639 of \blocks\xp\classes\manager.php: call to mysqli_native_moodle_database->execute()
    line 63 of \blocks\xp\report.php: call to block_xp_manager->reset_data()


  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Fri, 18 Sept 2015, 5:47 PM
    Thanks for reporting this Jacques. I have raised the issue here: https://github.com/FMCorz/moodle-block_xp/issues/28
  • Jacques Barzic
    Fri, 18 Sept 2015, 6:13 PM
    Thanks Frederic.
    I write in your control, it's possible by pass this by a direct data base deleting:
    - table mmdl_block_xp_log for the logs,
    - table mdl_block_xp for the reports and the ladders.
    With a good SQL request, it's possible to filter by user, by course.
    But it's a solution for and administrator wink.
    Jacques.
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Fri, 18 Sept 2015, 7:18 PM
    Thanks Jacques. I've already fixed the issue as stated in the issue raised above, it was a regression introduced recently because I poorly tested the plugin on MySQL. Sorry for the trouble! I will try to release a new version this weekend.
  • Jacques Barzic
    Fri, 18 Sept 2015, 8:02 PM
    OK.
    Thanks for your work.
    Jacques.
  • Brian Rigwald
    Wed, 23 Sept 2015, 10:01 PM
    Merci pour votre travailles, Federeic!!

    Perhaps I am not versed enough if the tech side of Moodle (I have no idea what CRUD is.) , but is there a way to assign points for completing all tests in a unit? For example, if I have a list of 10 things that students must do, can I set that up give a large number of "bonus" points for doing all the tasks? Perhaps that is what the Activity / Resource condition is. It was just unclear to me.

    Merci!

    Brian
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Thu, 24 Sept 2015, 11:15 AM
    Hi Brian,

    Not that I am aware of. CRUD means Create/Read/Update/Delete, those are just the rough "type" of an event. As the plugin is relying exclusively on events triggered by Moodle, it becomes very tricky if you want to inspect the "state" of the course, for instance the completion of each user. Technically it should be possible but I'm afraid that the user interface would not allow you to, and would require quite a lot of configuration.

    The 'Activity/Resource' condition observes in which activity/resource the event happened, it is usually only useful if you combine that condition with another one.

    I hope this helps a bit.

    Cheers,
    Fred
  • Brian Rigwald
    Thu, 24 Sept 2015, 5:42 PM
    Thanks for the info Fred. I don't have the course set-up to have course completion status. What I am looking for is in a unit, let's say I have 10 things (lessons, quizzes, URL Links...) that I assign and have "completion status" already set for each item in each item's settings (must receive a grade, must view, etc...). I use that in conjunction with the Progress Bar to help students monitor their activity.

    When all required items are completed for the unit (units are "topics" in Moodle-speak), I want to issue more experience points. It is outside the realm of course completion, since I don't have that set-up. Is there a way to set it up using the "ALL conditions must me met" and then selecting all the items that need to be done with a completion condition?
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Thu, 24 Sept 2015, 5:52 PM
    Sorry Brian, when I mentioned course completion I included activity completion in there as well. This plugin is not passive, it is listening to live events, so if I may be a bit technical we would need an event to be triggered when the completion of all the items you require is met. So no you cannot achieve this by using "ALL conditions must be met". The progress bar plugin is working differently as far as I know.

    If we were to compare match your request with game terms I'd say that you want to reward your students when the complete quests, a quest being a unit. I have had in mind to create a separate plugin, which could work with block_xp, that would define quests for the students to do. I'll keep your request in mind ;).
  • Brian Rigwald
    Thu, 24 Sept 2015, 8:04 PM
    So, for my clarification, Level Up looks only at live events, as they happen, but doesn't necessarily track them, correct? That would mean that the only situation that an "ALL conditions must be met" setting will work is if the first condition is a specific activity (ex. 01. NAFTA Questions) and the second condition is the specific action within that activity (QUIZ IS COMPLETED/SUBMITTED). You wouldn't be able to do "ALL conditions must be met" and then have the first condition is a specific activity (ex. 01. NAFTA Questions),the second condition is the specific action within that activity (QUIZ IS COMPLETED/SUBMITTED), the third condition being a different specific activity (ex. URL: North America Map Game), and the fourth condition being (LINK IS VIEWED).
  • Frédéric Massart ⭐
    Fri, 25 Sept 2015, 9:38 AM
    That is correct, you cannot expect an event to have happened in two simultaneous places at the same time.
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