DigitalChalk: Gamification

This session focused on Gamification in DigitalChalk.

Incorporating gamification into your courses can help increase engagement among your learners. Whether their motivation is their own improvement and achievement levels or simply to outscore their peers, gamification can impact how often learners visit your courses and how much time they spend in them, ultimately sharpening their level of focus on your content.

Whether conscious or not, we all have feelings of “I know I can do better than that” and especially “I know I can do better than HIM!” Personal satisfaction and bragging rights are powerful motivators.

In this session, we revealed best practices for applying gamification by covering:

• how to set up a game in your courses;
• establishing achievements, badges, and leaderboards;
• various ways to apply points;
• common questions (e.g., who can see learners’ performance); and 
• some newer ways to see gamification in context.