Ludic
Daniel Miller, 
Céline Hernandez, 
Team EdunaoIntroduction
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.
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Contributors
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And what a fantastic plugin. Loving!
Perfect if there are different pictures depending on the activities
Thank you for your feedback !
In order to reproduce and solve the problem, we would need more details.
What do you mean by "try changing the image"? Is it about clicking on the image under "Appearence" and choosing another one? If so, could you tell us the initial image and the chosen image and whether it was a section or an activity, and any other actions taken? Can you reproduce the problem by making a backup/restore of the course?
When I switch the "course format" to Ludic, it creates tiles for all the "topics", and the default image on them is the "track progress". When I turn editing on, and try switching the appearance of them to the "fixed image", it will let me do it for around 8 of them and then it makes the content blank (so the top bar of the moodle [the header and top bar where dashboard and home are] is visible, and the "navigation" menu on the right is also visible, but the course content [all the topics/tiles] disappear).
Sometimes it will let me change the "course format" back to topics/week/etc and it will display all the content, but if I switch back to Ludic it goes blank again. Also, as soon as I click on "turn editing off", it displays a "502 Bad Gateway" page and nothing else shows. If I re-enter my moodle url it will let me open it, but as soon as I try opening the course in which I had used Ludic, it sends me back to the 502 page.
When block is added on course page, "right sidebar" blocks are broken.