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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+.
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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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Contributors
Can we add support for "groupings" along with the current support for groups. I have a single course with multiple cohorts from different units sharing the same material and groupings would be of great help to provide tailored results!
Cheers,
Ray
Thank you for your suggestion. Would you please describe what content would benefit from supporting groupings? To our knowledge the leaderboards are using the standard Moodle features which should support groupings when needed. If you are referring to the "Team leaderboards" from Level up! Plus, the groups displayed are based off the default grouping in a course, is that for this one that you would like to see a better support for groupings?
Thank you!
great, I will insert all of them inside the Dashboard XP block, see what happens, and let you know if anything goes wrong haha.
But yes, there might be a way to create fewer rules, I just haven't found out how. In this case, the points will be awarded based on the number of pages in a Lesson and a multiplier factor. For example:
- Lesson with 10 pages: 10 * 1 = 10 points;
- Quiz about the above lesson: also 10 points;
- Lesson summarizing 3 other lessons, one with 10 pages, the other with 14, and another with 16: 40 * 0.5 = 20 points
- Quiz about this summary: same 20 points
So each lesson page gives 1 point with a multiplier factor of 100%, and a summary lesson awards half the points of all lessons it's related to. I actually use different values, but you get the idea. Also, the points per page and the multiplier factors are constant throughout the courses.
As you can see, it's easy to explain but hard to set up. However, it's the best way I've found so far to award students based on their effort, rather than giving the same amount of points for very different activities, or trying to keep all activities about the same size (which would lead to boredom and the content breaking up at weird places).
(By the way, I'm not complaining about it, since it was my idea to increase the complexity instead of simplifying things. I'm just sharing the idea in case it's useful for you or someone else.)
Can I add multiple level up blocks to one course?
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