Moodle plugins directory: Badge Ladder | Moodle.org
Overview
This plugin provides two leaderboards for awarded badges. The first leaderboard shows the available badges sorted by the number of users owning this badge. The second one shows all users sorted by the number of badges owned by them.
There is one badge ladder for site badges and one for course badges which can be enabled for every course separately. For each badge ladder you can enable an anonymous mode to hide the names of users.
Requirements
Moodle 2.9+ and badges enabled.
Installation
The zip-archive includes the same directory hierarchy as moodle.
So you only have to copy the files to the correspondent place.
Copy the folder bs_badge_ladder to moodle/local/bs_badge_ladder.
The langfiles normaly can be left into the folder moodle/local/bs_badge_ladder/lang.
All languages should be encoded with utf8.
After it you have to run the admin-page of moodle (http://your-moodle-site/admin)
in your browser. You have to loged in as admin before.
The installation process will be displayed on the screen.
That's all.
Administration
You can setup the plugin by going to Site administration --> Plugins --> Local plugins --> Badge Ladder.
Version control
1.3 (2018072500)
- Added support for privacy API
1.2.1 (2018031701)
- Fixed navigation issue regarding boost based themes
1.2 (2018031700)
- Fixed ladder sorting
- Added per page option
- Some small fixes
1.1 (2015120400)
- Fixed error message when no badge is available in a course
1.0 (2015102400)
- first release
Screenshots
Contributors
http://integration.moodle.org/job/Precheck%20remote%20branch/18178/artifact/work/smurf.html
Thanks Matthias for sharing this plugin with the community. I found it quite useful reporting tool for courses and sites using badges extensively. Well done! While testing the functionality and reviewing the code, couple of issues were detected that should be fixed in a future version of the plugin. I reported them into your issues tracker. Still this seems to be safe enough to be approved. You are cleared to land, welcome to the Plugins directory!
Does it work with version 3.0?
I just tested the plugin in the latest Moodle 3.0.2 and it seems to work fine.
The plugin seems nice to motivate students to earn more badges but I find that it maybe kinda troublesome for young students to navigate it, so it would be nice if some options could be added like:
1.- Sort the ladder by ammount of badges earned.
2.- An option to show more than 20 students per page only, like a "show all" option.
Sorry for waiting so long, but there wasn´t much time in the last two years. I will try to update my plugins consistently from now on.
@Gilberto Reyna: Thanks for your suggestions! Sorting was fixed and I added a per page option.
I'm still waiting for Telkom University's LMS admin to install this plugin, but this seems to be perfect
My suggestion: Can you change the "Student ladder" instead of just showing number of badges, it also shows the badges directly (at least first N badges, then with a "Show all N badges" link) ? (or make it a configurable option)
It's great, but I have a suggestion: For "Badge ladder", instead of just number, can you also show profile photos of students? (or maybe first N students)
Yes, badges which have not been earned will be displayed in the ladders.
Greetings!
Can't find data record in database table local_badge_ladder.
More information about this error
Debug info: SELECT * FROM {local_badge_ladder} WHERE courseid = ?
[array (
0 => 8,
)]
Error code: invalidrecord
Stack trace:
line 1562 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_missing_record_exception thrown
line 1538 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->get_record_select()
line 67 of /local/bs_badge_ladder/index.php: call to moodle_database->get_record()
The workaround is to hack the database manually, but would appreciate this being fixed
Cheers,
Ray
Do you plan to make the version compatible with moodle 3.11 or 4.0?
Ricardo