What is Level up! ?
- Level up! is a customizable block which a teacher can add to a course to give experience points to students as they progress through a course.
- It displays their current level and progress towards the next level.
- It adds an element of gamification to a course.
How is it set up?
- With the editing turned on in a course, select Level up! from the ‘Add block’ menu.
- Access the block on the course page and click the configuration icon.
- Give the block a title and description and save it again.
- Click the links in the block to access different areas:
- Information – shows how many XP (experience points) are required for each level. You can change this from the Levels tab.
- Ladder – shows the students in order of levels and experience points
- Report – allows for filtering the students, levels and experience point and allows for manual editing of students’ experience points via their progress bar.
- Settings -allows various options to be turned on or off and offers settings for preventing possible cheating.
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
- Support for shortcodes to include in content
- GDPR compliant
Retain learners
Increase engagement and participation by motivating students to progress towards the next level.
Praise progress
Reward their efforts by congratulating learners for reaching the next level.
Trigger competition
Use the leaderboard to leverage competitiveness while keeping it friendly and motivating.
Unlock content
Unlock access to course content when a certain level is reached.
Further customization
Change the levels and substitute experiences points for other symbols to make it even more exciting!
GDPR Compliance
The data collected never leaves your Moodle site. The plugin also complies with Moodle’s privacy requirements, making it GDPR compliant.
Download the free version from Moodle/plugins
Or
Get the Pro version from the levelup website
Automated
This method is not possible on all Moodle installations, but if it is, follow those simple steps:
- Login to your Moodle site and navigate to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
- Click on the button reading Install plugins from the Moodle plugins directory. This will redirect you to moodle.org.
- In the search field, type level up and hit “Search”.
- Click on Level up!, it should be the first result.
- Click the button Install now and select your Moodle site.
- Follow the installation steps.
- For more information on installing plugins, please visit the official Moodle documentation.
Zip upload
This method is not possible on all Moodle installations, but if it is, follow those simple steps:
- Download the zip file of the latest version of the plugin from moodle.org.
- Login to your Moodle site and navigate to Site administration > Plugins > Install plugins.
- Upload the zip file in the form, and follow the steps.
- For more information on installing plugins, please visit the official Moodle documentation.
Manual installation
Level up! is a Moodle plugin of type block, it needs to be extracted in the blocks/ directory. Here is how to manually install it.
- Download the zip file of the latest version of the plugin from moodle.org.
- Extract the content of the zip file in the folder blocks of your Moodle installation.
- If you have extracted the content at the right place, the following file should be present: blocks/xp/version.php.
- Visit the admin notifications page to trigger the installation.
- Navigate to Site administration > Notifications.
- Or directly visit your.moodle.example.com /admin/index.php.
- Follow the Moodle installation process.
The plugin supports all versions of Moodle from 3.1 to 3.10.
Level up! Plus for Moodle Mobile requires the latest Moodle Mobile app.
