Your LearnWorlds platform incorporates gamification features, including a set of predefined digital badges that users can earn through their social engagement and achievements within the virtual school environment. Gamification is crucial as it enhances user engagement, motivation, and learning outcomes by adding elements of fun and competition to the educational experience.
In this article, we will learn how to enable the gamification engine in LearnWorlds, customize the digital badges, and inform users when a badge is awarded.
Activate the Gamification Engine
You can enable or disable your school's gamification by navigating to Settings → Learning Apps → Gamification Engine. On the Gamification engine page, you can see all the available badges along with the scenarios that, once met, will unlock the relevant badge.
Available Badges
Title | Award Condition |
Active Member | This badge is awarded to Members who have made 10 or more social actions in 1 month |
Appreciated | This badge is awarded to Members who have 30 or more likes from others. |
The Archiver | This badge is awarded to Members who have created 30 or more favorites. |
Civic Duty | This badge is awarded to Members who have answered to polls 5 or more times. |
Commentator | This badge is awarded to Members who have created 20 or more comments. |
Core Community Member | This badge is awarded to Members who have shared 10 or more posts & comments with more than 3 likes & upvotes each. |
Extrovert | This badge is awarded to Members who have created 20 or more posts. |
Golden Community Member | This badge is awarded to Members who have shared 20 or more posts & comments with more than 5 upvotes each. |
Mentor | This badge is awarded to Members who have 30 or more followers. |
Newbie | This badge is awarded to Members that are new. |
Note Master | This badge is awarded to Members who have created 20 or more notes. |
Reporter | This badge is awarded to Members who have shared 5 or more links with more than 10 likes & upvotes each. |
Spammy | This badge is awarded to Members who have 5 or more report abuses. |
Stellar Post | This badge is awarded to Members who have at least one post with more than 20 upvotes. |
The Pollster | This badge is awarded to Members who have shared 5 or more polls with more than 50 votes each. |
V.I.P. | This badge is awarded to Members who have 100 or more upvotes on their posts and comments. |
Customize the Digital Badges
On the Gamification engine page, you can activate and customize each badge, changing the name, description, and image by hovering over the three dots at the left of each badge and clicking on the Edit badge.
- The award condition for each badge cannot be edited.
- The recommended dimensions for the badge images are 90px X 90px.
Notify Users when a Badge is Awarded
In your notification emails, you can enable or disable the notification message sent when a badge is awarded.
Badges that your users earn during their experience within your school can be found in the users' Inbox & Profile page once they are logged into their account. Over time, your learners will have a visual personal portfolio of all the different skills they have been awarded.
- The Active Member badge gets calculated based on social actions (such as posts, likes in posts, comments, best of (upvote), and likes in comments) in the past 30 days (not based on the calendar month).
- Once a badge is earned, it does not get removed.
- The Archiver and Note Master badge is related to the e-book learning activity actions.