classroom-gamification

Tool to gamify your classroom with an online leaderboard

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Table of Contents

• About
• Features
• How to use?
• Contributing
• License
• Contact

About

This is a simple tool to gamify your classroom with an online leaderboard. It is a simple HTML file showing the preview of the bar chart in the google spreadsheet. The leaderboard shows the overall score (and sub-scores) obtained by each student in descending order. The highest scorer wins!!

Everything happens in the google spreadsheet, which consists of 5 different sheets. The teacher have to enter the record of each defined activity/rule in the Lecture Record sheet after each lecture and the final chart is updated automatically.

The leader board has a set of pre-defined simple rules. The score for each rule can be changed in the Summary sheet.

1. Base score of 0 points is given to all at the start. (Sorry no free lunch!!)
2. +5 points for every lecture attended.
3. +15 points for each surprise question answered. (We will randomly call you)
4. +25 points each for the best idea given in the class. (You can voluntarily give your idea)
5. +10 points each time for winning the lottery. (We will randomly call you)
6. -5 points for each lecture missed.
7. -10 points for each time you were missed when your name was called for a surprise question.

Features

• All tools are free (google sheet for records and computation, GitHub for hosting)
• As a side benefit, the teacher can have a record of attendance and other activities of the students

How to use?

1. Fork this repository
2. Copy the main google spreadsheet, pre-filled with dummy data is a google sheet document (link) to your google drive.
3. Enter the details of the students in the Student Database sheet.
4. Optionally change the scores for the rules in the Summary sheet.
5. Starts maintaining record in the Lecture Record sheet.
6. Go to the Leaderboard Chart sheet, click on the three dots in the upper-right corner of the chart, and select the publish chart option. Copy the link to the iframe section of the index.html file.
7. Publish by navigating to Settings > Pages in your repository.

Contributing

Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. You can contribute to this project in the following ways :

• Add new functionality
• Review code
• Raise issues about bugs/features/doubts
• Star on GitHub
• Share with others

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

This project is distributed under the GPLv3 License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

Kulbhushan Chand