Blocks: Level up!
Frédéric Massart
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What's new?
Level up! is GDPR ready and conforms with the API requirements recently added to Moodle. (requires Moodle 3.3.5, Moodle 3.4.2 or greater)
Moodle Mobile app support is available for Moodle 3.1 and greater through Level up! Plus.
Feature request and bug reports
Please report the issues you find, problems you experience or any feature request on the issue tracker. Thanks!
Features
- Automatically attributes points to students for their actions
- Block that displays current level and progress towards next level
- Report for teachers to get an overview of their students' levels
- Notifications to congratulate students as they level up
- A leaderboard to display the ranking of the students
- Ability to customise the number of levels, the points they require and their appearance
- Total control over the points earned per action
- Unlock content when a certain level is reached
- Experience points earned per course, or for the entire site
Level up ! Plus add-on features
Purchasing the Level up! Plus add-on unlocks these features:
- Mobile app support
- Activity completion support
- Course completion support
- Resilient cheat guard
- Limit learners rewards in time frame
- Additional default level badges
- Substitute experience points for other symbols
- Download the report
- Email support
Visit our website for more information on Level up! Plus.
How are experience points calculated?
This block listens to events triggered in Moodle and captures some according to pre-defined rules. It then attributes experience points based on the information contained in the event. For more information about the events, refer to the documentation.
Only the users with the capability block/xp:earnxp can earn experience points. This capability is given by default to students. Also, actions triggered by guests, non-logged in users or administrators are ignored.
The following events are always ignored:
- Events from another context than course or module
- Events having another educational level than participating
- Events flagged as anonymous, e.g. in an anonymous Feedback
The rest is up to you. By default, the plugin comes with a minimal set of rules to attribute experience points to actions, and to ignore some redundant ones. Visit the Rules page in the plugin itself to view or override them.
Note: Repeated actions within a short time interval are ignored to prevent cheating.
How to use one block for all courses?
In order to gather experience points from all the courses a student is participating in, you have to set the admin setting Where are experience points used? to 'For the whole site'. This setting is located under "Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Level up! > General settings". Once set, any block newly or previously added will display the total experience points of your students.
How to unlock content at a certain level?
Use the availability plugin: Level up! Availability.
How to unlock a course at a certain level?
Use the enrolment plugin: Level up! Enrolment.
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Something tells me that you are using Nginx. Please make sure that it is properly configured for Moodle use if that's the case. (https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Nginx)
If that's not the case, you could try to disable "slasharguments" in the Moodle admin settings.
If Nginx is properly configured, or you are not using Nginx, please get in touch with me at level at branchup dot tech.
Thanks!
Just a quick query - is it possible to link LevelUp to user profile pictures? It would be great to feature a way that users profile pictures can change as they progress through levels!
Thanks
That's an interesting request. I agree that it could be fun, except if all students have the same level, in which case it would be harder to distinguish who is who.
Are you aware of Mootivated? They offer a gamification solution which allows students to create their own avatar, pretty neat! Check the out at https://www.mootivated.com
Thanks!
Can I add points directly to a user and show them in their points?
Not at this stage. Please raise an issue on Github if you feel strongly about this feature.
Thanks!
That must be because you set the block to be used "For the whole site", which means that one instance of the block will be used for all courses. If that's what you want, then edit the instance of the block you added on the front page, and set it to be displayed on all pages throughout the site.
If you want a different points count for each course, then set the block to be used "Per course". That setting is in Site administration > Plugins > Blocks > Level up!.
By the way, is it possible to add a rule to give points based on activity completion (with "Require passing grade" enabled)?
Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad our plugin is having a positive effect on your students.
Yes, activity completion based rewards is available in our Plus version, you can find more information about it at http://levelup.branchup.tech. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need more information.
I would like to change the avatar in animation (.gif) but the upload function is not support this file type. Could you please suggest?
Thank you.