Gamification Level 2:
- 1. Gamifying Grades of Green
- 2. What is Grades of Green?
- 3. Statistics Grades of Green has: ● > 140,000 students ● 224 schools ● 31 states Trash-Free Lunch Challenge: ● eliminated 30,000 lbs. of trash from landfills ● 70% of the winning schools cut their lunch trash by 90%
- 7. To Create a Road to Mastery
- 8. Bartle Player Types For Grades of Green Socializer - Seek community and interaction with others. Socializers are signified by a heart. Achiever - Seeks progress and achievements. Achievers are signified by a diamond.
- 9. Socializer Socializers will enjoy: - Discussing various topics on the green forum. - Accumulating a good reputation. - Sharing their Grades of Green stories on the forum Socializers will prioritize: - Working with others. - Gaining a reputation in the organization as someone who is helpful.
- 10. Achiever Achievers will enjoy: - Leveling up and displaying their achievements. - Visualization of their actions. Achievers will prioritize: - Creating goals for themselves. - Completing the various initiatives.
- 11. Purpose of a Gamified System A gamified system will: ● introduce GoG to new users. ● familiarize players with the GoG website through onboarding. ● design a progression to mastery through quests. ● engage GoG supporters with fun and exciting quests to increase completion of initiatives. ● create global collaboration between schools.
- 12. Summary: Game Mechanics Used
- 13. Grades of Green Forum The Grades of Green Forum, similar to a city in most Role-Playing Games, is where players: Earn new titles on the forum ● Gather information through: ● Collaborate ● Interact ● Reputation points ● Create meaningful discussions. ● Posts ● Upvotes
- 15. I Challenge You to Create the Next Bottle Bank Arcade
- 16. Boost Your Upvote your reputation through the Q&A subforum, quests, and challenges.
- 17. Green Initiatives The non-profit GOG creates calls for action through it’s green initiatives. Green initiatives can be lengthy and intimidating, especially to those new to environmental awareness. Quests fix this problem, breaking larger initiatives into more manageable pieces.
- 18. Quests Would you rather be asked to reduce your trash consumption or start a grand adventure, increasing your positive environmental impact one quest at a time? Quests allow users to have a clear goal to complete, while engaging them in a fun experience.
- 19. Quests
- 20. As players move through the Grades of Green quests, they will level up, giving them access to new privileges and quests, as well as titles on the Green Forum! These levels reward players with titles like Green Guru, Environmental Socialite, and Trash Talker. How to level up: ● Collect enough reputation points. ● Receive upvotes on the green forum. ● Complete Green Challenges. ● Register schools.
- 21. Impact: On the front page of the Grades of Green website, a counter records the amount of hypothetical trees saved by all of the Grades of Green schools and students.
- 22. Summary My gamification system aims to create a more collaborative environment for Grades of Green and increase completion of Grades of Green’s various initiatives. I identified Grades of Green’s support base as a combination of Socializers and Achievers.