Bug#0005598

Broad Scope

Rules:

Break the courses into specific sections.

  - Put a quiz at the end of every section and award the student a virtual badge, if they pass the section quiz.
  - separate the content into different, graded levels. Thus, as the student progresses (achieves badges) the levels are unlocked and they get to experience new content.
  - track scores in each section. This will allow the student to focus on increasing their average score throughout.
  - allow rewards like badges, certificates or ‘achievements’, to be posted on social media sites, or on internal company intranets. Should be transportable.
  - make levels date or time sensitive, so students need to check in each day, week or month to receive new challenges.
  - create group assignments so that students collaborate together to accomplish projects.
  - introduce the concept of a ‘quest’ or ‘epic meaning’, where students submit a piece of work which reinforces learning or cultural norms.
  - incentivise users to share and comment on others work. This embeds learning and encourages knowledge sharing.
  - surprise users with extra bonus rewards when they reveal or pass a new challenge.
  - create artificial pressure by using ‘countdowns’ on quizzes. This makes users tackle challenges under time constraints.
  - take away badges, or rewards, if challenges are not met successfully.
  - post leader boards showing student performance across departments, geographies and specialisms, to encourage competition and collaboration.



**Points, Batches, Reputation**

Each activity performed by a user will accumulate points of a specific kind which will also add up to their over all points (reputation).

Kinds correspond to badges and will have levels.

Below are few examples of badges

1) Member
Rule: Register on learnexa.com (or any subsite)
Points: Earn 10 points for registering

2) WordSmith
Rule: Someone who comments on blogs
Points: Earn 1 point for each comment
|Nos of Comments|10|25|50|100|500|1000|2000+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|

3) Autobiographer
Rule: Someone who completed entering all user profile fields (i.e. user profile is completely filled)
Points: Earn 10 points for completing profile

4) Frequent Visitor
Rule: Someone who visits learnexa site frequently
Points: Earn 1 point for each login
|Nos of Visits|10|25|50|500|1000|1500|2500+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|

5) Learner
Rule: Someone who enrolls to a product (free or paid)
Points: Earn 10 point for each enrollment
|Nos of Enrollments|5|10|20|30|40|50|70+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|

6) Knowledgeable
Rule: Someone who successfully completes viewing/playing a content (i.e. video, document, webtext etc...)
Points: Earn 10 point for each completed view (Same content viewed again doesn't add up).
|Nos of content completion|5|10|20|30|40|50|70+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|

7) Serious Learner
Rule: Rule: Someone who enrolls to a PAID product.
Points: Earn 20 point for each enrollment
|Nos of Enrollments|5|10|20|30|40|50|70+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|


8) Networker
Rule: Someone who shares items (products, blog etc...)
Points: Earn 1 point for each share
|Nos of shares|10|25|50|100|500|1000|2000+|
|Levels|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|

9) Global Badge
Rule: This badge will be awarded based on the user's reputation i.e. total points the user has accumulated.
|Points|0-249|250-499|500-999|1000-1499|1500+|
|Badge|Bronze|Silver|Gold|Platinum|Diamond|




**How the badges will work?**

- As soon as the user registers to the site he will get a "Member" badge and will earn 10 points
- The user will earn other badges based on his activities on the site. For e.g. If the user creates one comment on a blog then he will immediately earn a "WordSmith - Level 1" badge along with one point.
- Based on the number of total points that the user currently has he will have 1 Global Badge (Bronze, Silver, Gold etc...).
- Reversing the activity i.e. deleting the comment you entered or canceling an enrollment will revert points and consequently the level and badge.

**Badge Expiry - Do we need this?. If yes then below are few rules**
- When a user reaches a particular level within a badge, it will be kept for some specific time period (e.g. 12 months)
- If there are no activities related to the earned badge for specific time period (e.g. 12 months) then the badge will expire and will be removed from user's profile.


**Implementation**

Gems available

Gioco - https://github.com/joaomdmoura/gioco

Merit - https://github.com/tute/merit

Most of the gems available are for newer version of rails (3 +). So either we will have to backport it or develop the gamification from the scratch using the concepts.


**DB Design**

(In progress)