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How to Use Leaderboards
Leaderboards are a great way to inspire extra effort and friendly competition among your students, by publicly recognizing points and progress!
The challenge of leaderboards is to inspire your students without de-motivating them... and at Xperiencify, we're all about the student experience.
We've combined extensive research, insights from gamification and learning psychology, as well as input from our most important source - our community of loyal users- to create Leaderboards in the most helpful ways to support your students' results.
Phase One of Leaderboards will allow you to create a simple system that publicly tracks daily points, as well as overall point totals for a particular course.
In Phase Two and beyond, you'll have more options for customization, as well as being able to incorporate Social Points, Tags, and more
More On Our Approach to Leaderboards
In XP, our leaderboards show 2 boards -- the "Jump" board and the "Total" board.
Before I dive into how it works, I want to give a top level reminder the *real* job of a leaderboard.
It's NOT to show a simple top 10. Those kinds of leaderboards are motivating for the 10 people who are on the leaderboard, and make everyone else feel like losers.
That's why the REAL job of a leaderboard is to create what we call "Urgent Optimism" -- a feeling in the student that they're doing well, and that it's possible to do even better.
That's why we've designed the leaderboard system in a very specific way -- with 2 side-by-side boards.
The board on the left is the "jump" board which shows who has earned the most amount of points in a certain amount of time, either 1, 7 or 30 days. This means a student who has only been in the course for 1 day, and taken a small amount of action has a good chance to appear on the 1-day Jump leaderboard.
Once they have done enough to appear on the 7 day Jump leaderboard, they will automatically see that one. And same for the 30-day leaderboard.
We are trying to set up an environment where everyone will see themselves on a leaderboard even if they haven't taken much action (yet), and to encourage them to keep doing more!
The leaderboard on the right is the total earned points in the course, BUT, because MANY students can easily earn the same amount of points in a course, we group together people with the same amount of points. This allows the leaderboard to not be just a list of people who have earned all the points in a course.
We've had to do a LOT of thinking to make leaderboards work in both a live or evergreen course situation.
Adding Leaderboards to Your Course
Open up Step 4 of your Course
Select the Page where you want to add the Leaderboard. In this example, we'll add it to the HomePage
From the left hand column of blocks, select the “Leaderboard” option
Drag and drop it onto your page.
The leaderboard is automatically updated, whenever your students take action!
Column One will show the "Jump" Leaderboard, reflecting new XP's earned that day in this course:
Column Two will show the "Total" Leaderboard, with XP's earned for all time in this course:
Phase Two is Coming Soon
Coming soon you'll be able to...
incorporate our new Social Points system, which recognizes community participation
auto-assign or de-assign tags, based on leaderboard position
have XXP Leaderboards
... and much more!
FAQ
Do the Leaderboards track points overall, or by individual course? Leaderboards are course specific, and track points per course
Where can Leaderboards be shown? Leaderboards can be shown on any page that is specific to a course (Home Page, All Trainings, Single Training, etc)
What if I don't want to use Leaderboards? All of Xperiencify's gamification features are optional. Leaderboards will only be shown if you choose to add it to a course page.
Stay tuned for further updates!