Advanced Gamification Overview and Administration

Advanced Gamification is a system that allows you to earn points, badges, levels, and possibly even prizes as you accomplish tasks within the Jive platform. This gamification approach adds an element of fun to your community participation, motivating engagement through the rewarding of points and badges for creating, interacting with, or viewing various content types.

Once the gamification community manager sets up missions for you to accomplish, you can start participating in this system.

Key Gamification Terms

• Missions: A group of actions required to earn a badge and/or points. A single mission can reward you with points, a badge, or both. For more information, see Completing missions.

• Badges: Fun images posted to your profile after completing a mission, showcasing your accomplishments.

• Points: A tally of how much you've earned by obtaining badges or completing actions in the community. For more on this, see Earning points.

• Levels: A benchmark representing your standing in relation to others in the community. You can progress to higher levels by accumulating points.

Administering Gamification

Manage your gamification experience by understanding setup procedures, creating and modifying missions, controlling activity stream input, and more within Jive Gamification.

Fastpath

Manage > Gamification

• Installing Gamification plugin: Getting set up involves downloading and installing the plugin from the Plugins page of the Admin Console. Note that if uninstalled later, Gamification data will still be stored but won't be visible to users.

• Starting Gamification Console: If you have Community Manager rights, you can access the Gamification Console from the community site or log in directly with provided credentials.

• Gamification Console permissions: Jive Community Managers can access the Nitro Studio console through the Manage Gamification link, but additional users can be granted access by adding them as admins in the Gamification Console.

• Missions: Define the sets of activities for users to complete in the community and the associated rewards.

• Modifying default missions: Gamification includes several default missions that you may want to alter before launching.

• Creating missions: Create a mission by clicking Challenges > New > Mission in the Gamification Console.

• Importing images for badges: Upload images that meet size and resolution requirements to create custom badges.

• Looking for Points, Badges, and Status: Gamification data is presented in the Activity stream, in the Reputation tab of a user's profile, and on the Overview page of a place. Only the Overview page requires further configuration by a community manager.

• Controlling activity stream updates: Stream input is managed by callbacks in each mission. Clear the Send Callback checkbox to prevent a mission from posting to the Jive activity stream.

• Understanding metadata: Metadata can limit the scope of actions to specific places, content types, or content items.

• Gamification widgets: Utilize various widgets associated with Gamification to display community standings.

• Activity and monitoring: Explore activity in the console and Gamification, including user activity search, with guidance on the new data Import feature.

• Analytics: Generate reports on gamification statistics.

Additional Resources

• System requirements: Check the requirements for using Advanced Gamification.

• Supported browsers: Jive is compatible with most current web browsers. Ensure script access to the clipboard is enabled for Content Editor features like cut and paste.

• Documentation PDFs: Download a PDF version of this documentation.