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Gamification with Moodle

By : Natalie Denmeade
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Gamification with Moodle

By: Natalie Denmeade

Overview of this book

This book describes how teachers can use Gamification design within the Moodle Learning Management System. Game elements can be included in course design by using, badges, rubrics, custom grading scales, forums, and conditional activities. Moodle courses do not have to be solo-learning experiences that replicate Distance Education models. The Gamification design process starts by profiling players and creating levels of achievement towards meeting learning outcomes. Each task is defined, valued, and sequenced. Motivation loops are devised to keep the momentum going. In a gaming studio, this approach would require a team of specialists with a large budget and time frames. Preparing for a class rarely has these optimal conditions. The approach used in this book is to introduce game elements into the course design gradually. First, apply gamification to just one lesson and then build up to gamifying a series of lessons over a term. Each example will indicate the difficulty level and time investment. Try it out to see what is most effective with your learners and choose wisely in your use of technology. By the end of this book, you will be able to create Moodle courses that incorporate choice, communication, challenge, and creativity.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Gamification with Moodle
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Mastery Achieved (Badges and Motivation)
8
Completing the Quest (Reporting Activities)
Index

Creating teachable moments through suspense and hope


A highly effective method of teaching is to stop intermittently during a lecture and take a poll. Why invest in special clicker technology to achieve this when the Moodle Choice activity can be set up as a simple poll? Here is an example of how this can be used in a face-to-face setting. Try this in your test course:

  1. Set up three quick polls in Moodle relating to your topic. Each one will have a different web address, something like this: http://school.demo.moodle.net/mod/choice/view.php?id=170

  2. At three intervals during your lecture, ask the learners to form small groups and discuss the answers for 5 minutes.

  3. Shorten the links into something like bit.ly/2015zwq so that you can write these on a whiteboard (go to www.bit.ly or www.goo.gl to shorten the URL).

  4. Using a bring your own device approach, ask one person from each group to submit their group answer to the poll.

  5. You can configure the Choice activity to automatically show what other people...