A bunch of cartoon penguins wearing different attires, around the Moodle logo.

Gamifying a Moodle course. What difference does it make? Week 11

This is week 11 of my ‘gamified Moodle course vs. non-gamified experiment. What is Open Badges There have been a few great blog posts (1,2) written about Open Badges and Moodle. As explained in this Wikipedia entry,  Open Badges is a program by Mozilla that issues digital badges to recognize skills and achievements. The badge structure allows one to display real-world achievements and skills which may help with future career and education opportunities....

2013, June 6 · 5 min · Frederic Nevers
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Increase student engagement with Moodle conditional activities & badges

What are conditional activities? Since the introduction of Moodle 2, it has been possible for users to track which activities/resources they have completed. This means that resources/activities are ‘aware’ of their completion status for each course user. This completion status awareness allows a teacher to have activities/resources show up only when certain conditions have been met, for example Resource B will only be shown to users who have completed Activity A....

2013, January 20 · 5 min · Frederic Nevers