A little healthy competition goes a long way to boosting
employee engagement and developing your organisation’s
learning culture.
Digits LMS’s suite of gamification features use rewards such as pop-up points and badges, as well as leaderboards, to create interest in learning and reward employees who complete courses and activities.
Digits LMS’s learning journeys incorporate gamified elements –
such as level completion, locked levels, and progress charts – to
nudge learners along their journey.
Each learning journey uses your brand’s graphics, colours and font so the LMS truly feels a part of your organisation.
Earn points for each completed activity
Show and share learning progress, helping to foster a learning culture
Encourage learners to complete key activities aligned to your organisation’s goals and values
It’s human nature to be competitive – whether you want to best a friend or colleague in a test, become the family Monopoly champion, or beat your own fastest time for a 5km run. So it makes sense to add competitive elements to your learning programmes and activities; a technique known as ‘gamification’.
Gamified learning rewards individuals with points, achievements, badges, progress bars and level completion, and, crucially, makes these achievements visible to other ‘players’ – learners – to encourage them to take part, too. Gamification helps to make learning more enjoyable, as well as increasing engagement and completion rates – helping your L&D team deliver tangible business results.
Gamified learning rewards individuals with points, achievements, badges, progress bars, and level completion, and makes these achievements visible to other ‘players’ (learners) — encouraging them to take part, too. Gamification makes learning more enjoyable while increasing engagement and completion rates – helping your L&D team deliver tangible business results.
Gamified learning can be effective in workplace learning in many ways. From improved knowledge retention to a more engaged employee training experience, there are many metrics you may want to consider when assessing how effective your gamified learning approach is. Practical ways to analyse the performance of your gamification include comparing learner engagement levels, testing knowledge retention (quizzes are a fun way to do this) and reviewing overall completion rates. Increased metrics in any or all of these datasets can indicate a positive performance of your gamified learning activities.
Advantages of the gamification of workplace learning include happier and more motivated employees, more frequent engagement with upskilling and cross-skilling opportunities, as well as a less-tangible ‘pull’ towards learning — the foundation of a learning culture. Other benefits include the ‘intended outcome’ of upskilled employees, ie higher productivity and better performance.
Gamified learning is successful thanks to the same reasons the games they are based on are successful: there’s an immediate reward for achieving a goal, there’s usually some form of recognition – whether through leaderboards, points, or badges — and the competitive nature of gamification can be a motivating factor all on its own.
The main objective of gamification in learning is to keep learners engaged with training activities while encouraging them to complete the course. Arguably, the goal of gamification is to make learning fun, and, while we agree, we also believe it is an effective way to enhance a learner’s understanding of a topic without adding more content.
Digits LMS’s suite of gamification features use rewards such as pop-up points and badges, as well as leaderboards, to create interest in learning and reward employees who complete courses and activities. Our visual learning journeys incorporate gamified elements – such as level completion, locked levels, and progress charts – to nudge learners along their journey.
