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Another nudge which we've added to the site is the different tiers of course completion accomplishments. If you complete a class within 2 weeks of starting it you'll get Gold (12.5k points), 4 weeks Silver (6250), 12 weeks Bronze (3125), and > 12 weeks Plain (1250). We've also updated the certificates to match the accomplishment coloring. We hope students will finish classes ASAP after they start them going forward!
As part of the gamification we're rolling out a few "Ignominious" badges to nudge users' behavior in the right direction.
Do you have 5 or more OST2 classes that you enrolled in but haven't started? Congrats, you've been granted the "Watchlister" accomplishment (-10k points!) Not only that, but you can't sign up for new classes! We know it's a common behavior to treat the site like Netflix and to add stuff that you just think you may get around to someday. But the fix is easy, just unenroll from the classes you're not going to take any time soon. You get a clean dashboard, and we get better statistics about who's actually working on classes!
As a thank you and more public recognition, we've granted this donor badge to the folks who donated in our recent campaign. But if you donated through work or YouTube we can't correlate to your account, so please let us know at donor at ost2.fyi and we'll get that added!
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We scraped our git history to grant the Subtitle Superhero to all the awesome people who've submitted subtitle fixes over the years. If we missed you though, let us know!
As part of the gamification we're rolling out a few "Ignominious" badges to nudge users' behavior in the right direction.
Do you have 5 or more OST2 classes that you enrolled in but haven't started? Congrats, you've been granted the "Watchlister" accomplishment (-10k points!) Not only that, but you can't sign up for new classes! We know it's a common behavior to treat the site like Netflix and to add stuff that you just think you may get around to someday. But the fix is easy, just unenroll from the classes you're not going to take any time soon. You get a clean dashboard, and we get better statistics about who's actually working on classes!
Also now's the time to fill in your profile information so you can show up how you want on the leaderboards! (Putting in your country will then have you show up on the per-country leaderboard.)
The first cut of the new gamified OST2 is available at p.ost2.fyi. Start poking around and let us know what's broken!
The production server p.ost2.fyi will be down at some point tomorrow to begin applying the first cut of the gamification platform & backfilling user accomplishments!
🎮This is the last week of the OST2 gamification fundraiser! If you were waiting to be a last-minute hero, now is the time to swoop in!🕹️
every.org/ost2/f/lets-gamify…
In this final video @XenoKovah talks about how the gamification system will allow us to recognize other worthwhile achievements outside of the platform, such as speaking at security conferences!
And not only will you get to show off your accomplishments, but by supporting our build-out for gamification, you'll also be helping OST2 support itself, by opening up a new type of sponsorship of OST2 by security conferences themselves!
🎮Our gamification fundraiser ends next week but we need your support today!🕹️
every.org/ost2/f/lets-gamify…
In this penultimate video @XenoKovah talks about how the gamification will allow us to recognize the ultimate volunteers, the instructors!
Remember, donations don't need to be large! Many hands make light work and we'd love to see how many people support what we do!🙏
And if you've got an idea for an OST2 class, reach out at teach🌀ost2.fyi! We've got many instructors who are working on classes, and we'd love to add your class to the queue too!
🎮Our gamification fundraiser ends soon and we need your support!🕹️
every.org/ost2/f/lets-gamify…
In this video @XenoKovah talks about how the gamification will allow us to recognize the volunteers who make classes better through beta testing, subtitle correction, graphics contributions, etc!
It's the 11th hour and we really want to know how many people support what we do, so even small donations help us by showing who are our true friends & fans!🙏
🎮In the 6th video in our fundraiser, @XenoKovah talks about how student profiles would become much more useful with gamification!🕹️
Traditionally Open edX didn't do much with student profiles, but now we can make them a useful hub to show off your accomplishments on and off the site.
But to make this happen we need everyone who likes OST2 to show their support at every.org/ost2/f/lets-gamify… 🙏
To check out our past videos for more about gamification, see here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
🎮In the 5th video in our gamification fundraiser, @XenoKovah talks about how leaderboards will work!🕹️
We will have a bunch of different leaderboards: global for the entire site, per-country, per-class, per-accomplishment, and possibly more!
If you'd like to see this happen (or if you just think OST2 is awesome!), please support us at every.org/ost2/f/lets-gamify… 🙏
(And if you have already finished lots of classes on OST2 you might see yourself on the leaderboards in the video ;))