In our ongoing commitment to providing the best gamification solutions for WordPress, we're announcing a significant change in the BadgeOS journey. After years of offering our plugin as a free tool, BadgeOS is transitioning to a premium model. This decision wasn't made lightly, and we want to share our reasoning and what this means for our valued users. Why We're Making This Change BadgeOS has become [...]
Awarding badges to your online community is a great way to keep your users engaged. Here are some of our recommendations for social badges you can easily integrate into your online community. Note: These badge ideas can be used on any community or membership site, but the specific instructions provided for setting them up are meant to be completed on a BuddyPress community, using the BadgeOS Community [...]
Codecademy is an e-learning website offering a unique system to help students learn how to code. Their skill-based courses focusing on web development, programming, and data sciences have grown in popularity because of their practical applications. Codecademy applies different strategies to make learning more fun and effective for their students with a “learn by doing” approach, real-world projects, and a gamification system. In this post, we’ll [...]
Now more than ever, businesses are faced with greater challenges of connecting with employees. The future of remote working and an increasingly disengaged workforce has forced companies to experiment with innovative techniques to engage and motivate their staff, particularly when it comes to learning and development. A 2019 survey from TalentLMS revealed that 89% of employees feel more productive and 88% feel happier with gamification tools [...]
Awarding badges in your online course is a great gamification strategy to engage and reward your students for their participation and performance milestones. In today’s post, we’ll be sharing some online course badge ideas that you can try on your e-learning site. Motivate Your Newest Students Welcome To The Class! When users first register to create an account on your site, they are awarded this [...]
Unlike what its name implies, BadgeOS gives you access to other gamification elements, beyond badges. Additionally, the BadgeOS plugin allows you to use points and ranks to build a reward system. We have noticed some of our users are unaware of how BadgeOS can be used to award and deduct points to their users. Rather than using two separate plugins for badges and points, using BadgeOS [...]
WordPress REST API allows external applications, like Mobile Apps or other Non-WordPress web applications, to interact with your WordPress site. This is done through JSON data exchanges between both parties. We are happy to announce that with the recent release of the BadgeOS REST API add-on, BadgeOS now supports this interface. As a result, developers now have the option to expand their BadgeOS environment by connecting [...]
BadgeOS allows you to add game-like features to any website, introducing an element of fun for your users. With the free BadgeOS TutorLMS Integration, you can now seamlessly connect gamification elements to your e-learning site. The TutorLMS integration allows you to award achievements and badges and award or deduct points to students based on their course, lesson, and quiz related activity. Here are Tutor LMS Triggers [...]
BadgeOS allows you to turn simple tasks into a game by implementing game-like elements to any WordPress site. Currently, we are able to provide users a wide range of triggers to award badges, points, and ranks through our core plugin and multiple integrations. We have also been working to provide you with more tools that allow you to expand the ways you can use BadgeOS to [...]
BuddyPress offers a myriad of fantastic features to help build a community around your brand - taking your business to another level. With more than 200,000 downloads on Wordpress.org, many online communities across a variety of industries are powered by BuddyPress. According to BuiltWith the plugin is used in over 123,000 live sites. BuddyPress also works in harmony alongside bbPress, which is a great solution for [...]