Ludic

Course formats ::: format_ludic
Maintained by Daniel Miller, Céline Hernandez, Adrien Jamot, Team Edunao
LUDIC presents course structure and contents graphically. A range of gamification options are also provided to strengthen student engagement.
Latest release:
313 sites
78 downloads
49 fans
Current versions available: 1

Introduction

LUDIC is a Moodle course format plugin, resulting from research work in gamifictaion, that presents course structure and contents graphically. Images are dynamic, evolving over time to emphasise student achievement.

Look and Feel

The objective is provide a light-weight navigation experience, favoring large images over long texts.

Philosophy

This plugin is designed to be extremely easy to use, requiring only minimal input from the course creators in order to put it to use.

The plugin includes a set of dynamic skins for sections and activities that can be used out of the box. It is possible for a user to create their own dynamic skins but it should be noted that this feature currently requires some technical expertise.

Course structure

Ludic courses use a classic Moodle structure with content organised into a set of course sections.
A course overview page presents the sections to which the student currently has access.
The content for each separate section is displayed in it's own dedicated page.

Dynamic section skins

Each section, as represented in the course overview page, is dressed in a dynamic skin. The course creator can choose which skin to use for which section, selecting from a range of options provided out of the box and any additional skins that they have added themselves.

Dynamic content skins

Each activity and resource may either be presented 'inline', displayed as it would be in any other Moodle course format, or may be represented by a dynamic skin that is conceptually similar to the section skins described above.


Partenaires

Le plugin de ludification Moodle Ludic a été développé par l’entreprise Edunao, à l’issue du projet de recherche LudiMoodle, en partenariat avec le laboratoire de recherche LIRIS et l’université Lyon II, dans le cadre de l’appel à projets « Espaces de formation, de recherche et d’animation numérique e-FRAN » du Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir lancé par l’État, et dont l’opérateur est la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.

Logo partenaires (Caisse des dépôts, Investir l'avenir, e-FRAN)


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Contributors

Daniel Miller (Lead maintainer)
Céline Hernandez
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  • Perial Dupont
    Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 7:00 PM
    Hello,
    i have some problem when i try to install the plugin on my moodle website. The error is " Fails due to write permissions"
    I use Moodle 3.9.

    Can you help me please?
    PS: I would like to know if your plugin if fix for Moodle App.

    Thanks for your answer

    Dupont
  • Hardy Reyes
    Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 12:47 AM
    Hi!!! Do you have an estimated version for Moodle 3.10?
  • Kushan Rathnasekara
    Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 2:41 PM
    Pls let me know is there anyway to change the images as our wish ?
  • Daniel Miller
    Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 2:34 AM
    For the question of using your own images - yes it is possible, but it is a really a feature for advanced users. Under the "Useful Links" drop down there is a "customize skins" link. This leads to a screen where all of the skin definitions can be managed.

    For a simple example, let us assume that you want to change the fixed image for sections, and let's say that the image file is called my-image.png. You would drag and drop the image file to the "Image library", scroll down to the "fixed image" skin definition, and replace the "background" value (which by default is "default-user-skins\/non-gamified-section") with "my-image.png".

    If you wanted to have a second fixed image you could copy the text from the fixed image skin definition into the "New Skin" space at the bottom of the page, change the title, description and image name as you like and save it. You can add as many skins as you like, one after another.

    Here is an example of a fixed image for a section:
    {
    "domain": "section",
    "skintype": "fixed_image",
    "title": "galaxies",
    "description": "Fixed galaxies image",
    "css": ".skin-img{background-size:contain}",
    "background": "galaxies.png"
    }
  • Daniel Miller
    Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 2:37 AM
    For the questions about block support - there is indeed no support for blocks in the format at this time. If there is demand we can look into adding it in a future version.
  • Nick Syrigos
    Wed, Jun 22, 2022, 10:40 PM
    I would like to ask if this UNIQUE course format, will be updated and supported for the new versions of Moodle (3.10 & 3.11).
    Please reply, so we can know IF we can use it in our schools for the next school year.

    Thank you again for this exquisite course format.
  • Nepal B
    Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 6:11 AM
    will there come a new version for Moodle 4 as well? Thank you
  • Team Edunao
    Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:22 AM
    We do intend to update this plugin in the near future for Moodle 3.10 and 3.11
    The update for Moodle 4 requires some more planning and is going to require a little more time.
  • Nick Syrigos
    Mon, Jul 4, 2022, 5:18 PM
    Thank you @Team Edunao for the update, we will be waiting smile
    May ask a small change?
    The point system instead of buying with US Dollars, can you allow us to change the currency to anything that we would like?
    Not only money currency but the ability to set for example "Digital Tokens, LMS Tokens"
  • Tien Nguyen
    Sat, Jul 16, 2022, 2:20 AM
    Thank you for this fantastic plugin. Would love to use it in the latest and greatest moodle 4.
  • Marion Caudebec
    Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 10:35 PM
    Hi !
    Are you still working on the adaptation to Moodle 4 ? (I need to find out if I can propose this plugin to our teachers for september) Thank you!
  • Team Edunao
    Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 3:41 PM
    Hello Marion, although we still intend to adapt the plugin for Moodle 4 at some time I'm afraid we don't have a time line and I don't expect it to be done over the Summer.
    Sorry.
  • Erwin der Kinderen
    Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 12:19 AM
    Great Plugin! However, I would like to go to 4.3 and that is not possible with this version of the plugin (it still works in 4.1). Any update on this?
  • Erwin der Kinderen
    Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 6:10 PM
    Still no update?
  • Barış Şeref
    Mon, May 13, 2024, 4:59 AM
    In version 4.4, it gave the error 'Class "format_base" not found'. I fixed it by deleting the 'puplish html/course/format/' ludic folder. If it happens to someone else, don't bother.
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