Gamification

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Encourage users to participate and contribute content in the community by providing incentives in the form of points, achievement levels, and badges.

Important:

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

Use the gamification framework to:

  • Configure point values associated with specific user activities.
  • Define achievement levels based on earned points.
  • Create and assign badges to recognize users.

Community administrators can:

  • Create rules and configure points that users receive for activities on the community.
  • Create tracks to logically separate points assigned in the communities into different areas.
  • Create levels in the community where users can achieve expertise or a reputation and then configure level ranges within each level definition.
  • Create badges to award to users for different achievements.

Community users can:

  • Perform activities and accrue points.

  • Achieve levels based on point totals.

  • View leaderboards to find community experts on specific forums or topics.

  • See their own standing within the community.

  • See gamification achievements on their user profiles.

  • Gamification components
    The gamification feature includes several components, such as rules, levels, and tracks, that enable users to earn points and badges for community activities.

  • Gamification user interface components
    Gamification information appears on leaderboards, the user profile page, and content pages.

  • Moderate gamification
    Monitor points earned by users and award points and badges to users based on their participation within the community.

Parent Topic:Using communities

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Report inappropriate community content

Add featured content in a community

Email a community user

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