Course, Chat & Match

Creating a Moodle Course as a Game

Alex Büchner

@mcbuchner

Terminology / Mapping

Player

“God”

Students

Teachers

Stages / Problems

Items to collect

Levels to complete

Game

Activities

Resources

Courses

Category

Start Doc Forum

Video

Quiz

Forum

Level 1

Assign

mentFinish

Conditional Activities

Activity

completed

Resource

completed

Date

Range

Grade

Condition Grade

Condition Grade

Condition

Resource

completedResource

completed

Activity

completedActivity

completed

Activity

Resource

Level 2

Pre-Requisite Level 1

Course Completion Myth

Course Prerequisites

• Enrolment

• Completion of other course(s)

• Payment

Course Progression

• Completion of activities

• Manual

• Grade

• Self

• Date

Course Completion

• Aggregation

• Grade

• Duration

• Unenrolment

Course Completion Truth

Course Prerequisites

• Enrolment

• Payment

Course Progression

• Completion of activities

• Manual

• Grade

• Self

• Date

Course Completion

• Aggregation

• Grade

• Duration

• Completion of other course(s)

Level 2

Pre-Requisite Level 1

Leaderboard ✗

✗

Cheats ✔

Multi-Player ✔

Evaluation

Limitations

• Activity completion not conditional

If 1 forum post then do this, if 2 forum posts then do something else

• Condition cannot be outcome of activity

If choice = A then do this else do something different

• Lack of randomness / forks / decisions / etc

Serious Game

Educational ✔✔✔✔✔

Engaging ✔✔

Fun ✔✔

Addictive ✔

www.synergy-learning.com

thank you

Alex Büchner

@mcbuchner