Gamification

Purpose

• Aim of gamification is to promote engagement with RESN for students who don’t have a strong intrinsic motivation for their education
• The secondary aim is to enhance tutor engagement and retention
• Both will be achieved through a rewards system, leaderboards, and similar progress metrics

Progress

• Tutor leaderboard:
  • This is a fairly well-built system so far
  • It gets the top 3 tutors for this current month
  • Additionally, it gets your current position and the position of the tutors one spot above and below you
  • This helps you see where you are relative to other tutors
• School leaderboard:
  • This is an area that is lacking
  • The schools use profile photos, but this is something we have to add ourselves, and is very inconsistent
• Tasks:
  • Tasks are a backend feature which track specific engagement on the app
  • For example, asking a question will count as a SUBMITTED_HELP_THREAD task
  • Every task should give some amount of points
• Badges:
  • Badges are awarded for achieving a certain number of points in a certain task
  • We currently have badges for Overall, Help, Quizzes, and Wiki
• Profiles:
  • So far only tutor profiles have been implemented
  • These display the tutor’s bio, their subjects, points, and badges

Future

• A lot of gamification has been postponed for the frontend and backend rewrite
• One of the goals of these rewrites was to make it easier to make interactive and engaging web apps
• Many of the gamification decisions come from the Education portfolio rather than the Technology portfolio itself
• The Notion hub for gamification is available here