{"id":6144,"date":"2016-06-09T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:10:56","slug":"lms-gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/lms-gamification\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamification of Courses v&#8217;s Gamification of an LMS:  A Need-based Decision!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/solutions\/lms-gamification\">Gamification<\/a><\/span> in eLearning brings in an effective yet informal learning environment which helps the learners practice real-life situations and challenges in an engaging environment. It also helps the learners retain the information better, because they had fun while in the process of learning. Therefore, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/solutions\/lms-gamification\">gamification<\/a><\/span> is the recommended approach when you are looking out for your learners to retain and recall their knowledge in a better way. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<style>\n#content_wrapper .inner .inner_wrapper .sidebar_content {width:96% !important;max-width:none !important;}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f7169-o1\" lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" data-wpcf7-id=\"7169\">\n<div class=\"screen-reader-response\"><p role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\"><\/p> <ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<form action=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144#wpcf7-f7169-o1\" method=\"post\" class=\"wpcf7-form init\" aria-label=\"Contact form\" novalidate=\"novalidate\" data-status=\"init\">\n<fieldset class=\"hidden-fields-container\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7\" value=\"7169\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_version\" value=\"6.1\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_locale\" value=\"en_US\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_unit_tag\" value=\"wpcf7-f7169-o1\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_container_post\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_posted_data_hash\" value=\"\" \/>\n<\/fieldset>\n<div class=\"as_blog_form inlinecf\">\n\t<h3>Get in touch to avail some awesome eLearning services!\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<div class=\"as_blog_row\">\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box\">\n\t\t\t<p><label class=\"inlinelable\">First Name *<\/label><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"firstname\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required txtsize\" id=\"fname\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"text\" name=\"firstname\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box\">\n\t\t\t<p><label  class=\"inlinelable\">Last Name *<\/label><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"lastname\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required txtsize\" id=\"lname\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"text\" name=\"lastname\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box\">\n\t\t\t<p><label class=\"inlinelable\">Company Name*<\/label><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"companyname\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required\" id=\"email\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"text\" name=\"companyname\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box\">\n\t\t\t<p><label class=\"inlinelable\">Contact Number *<\/label><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"phoneno\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"15\" minlength=\"10\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-tel wpcf7-validates-as-required wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-tel\" id=\"phone\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"tel\" name=\"phoneno\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box\">\n\t\t\t<p><label class=\"inlinelable\">Email Id *<\/label><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"emailid\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-email wpcf7-validates-as-required wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-email\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"email\" name=\"emailid\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"ps_full\">\n\t\t\t<p><label>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap recaptcha\" data-name=\"recaptcha\"><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-recaptcha g-recaptcha\"><\/span><\/span><\/label>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"as_b_box_12\">\n\t\t\t<p><input class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-submit has-spinner contact_blog\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Contact Us Now\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"hidden-source hs-hiddenfields\" style=\"display:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t<p><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"referer-page\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text referer-page\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144 &amp; 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font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Gamification of Courses v&#8217;s Gamification of an LMS<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">When a course is gamified, it works in isolation, whereas <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/solutions\/lms-gamification\">gamification of an LMS<\/a><\/span> applies gamification to all actions. To cite an example, let&#8217;s say compliance course &#8211; you as an organization want to make sure all the new joinees take it, so you create a game around it and whoever earns the maximum points, wins!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">But what if you are a company and want to do employee training or you are a university and want all the students to take all the courses of the curricula? It means you\u2019ll have to create a culture of training and learning. This will require you to gamify all the courses, while creating a leaderboard where whoever earns the maximum points by adding up all the courses, wins! All their contributions to the blogs, forums etc. will be counted and shown in cumulation on the leaderboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">So you see, if you want to acknowledge and award your students for their overall progress in all the courses assigned to them and also when compared to all other learners in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\">LMS<\/a><\/span>, you need an <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\">LMS<\/a><\/span> that is gamified. That\u2019s the major difference between gamifying a course as opposed to gamifying an LMS, and hence the choice of a proper LMS is very important. In summary, it is always better to gamify the LMS because you get a lot of leverage and more options than gamifying a particular course.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><b>Criteria for Selecting an LMS that can be Gamified or that is Gamified<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Look for an LMS that has the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/gamification-in-e-learning\/\">gamification<\/a><\/span> modules.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Besides LMS, if you are a big enough organization with more than 500-1000 employees, students or customers, you&#8217;ll need customization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Easy customization should be looked out for<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">The LMS should have open APIs that are ready to be integrated with<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">It should provide badges<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">It should be low cost and easily scalable.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\"><b><br \/>\nWhat else you should be looking out in an LMS?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">The foundation of all your e-Learning initiatives is the LMS, so the idea is to use the foundation and build on top of it. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/blog\/gamification-in-e-learning\/\">Gamification<\/a><\/span> is such an extension that is added on top of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\">LMS<\/a><\/span>. Course library with 5000+ courses that can be used out-of-the-box for the LMS. The courses the library have are multi-domain like leadership based, customer service courses, soft skills development and other vocational courses. Various integrations with LDAP, HRIS, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/lms-integrations\/\">Salesforce<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/sharepoint-lms\">SharePoint<\/a><\/span> or e-commerce takes the LMS to the next level. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Let\u2019s check out the benefit of integrating HRIS system with the <a href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LMS<\/span><\/a>. Now, suppose a new employee joins, you\u2019ll have to create a record in the HR system, after that you need to have an integration done with the LMS, so that the account gets created in the LMS. This saves your time to do double data entry, which if not done properly can create errors. Similarly, integration with LDAP can create a Single Sign On (SSO), that helps in keeping the authentication in one single place. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\">LMS integration<\/a><\/span> with Adobe Connect and Webex for giving classes online all these add value to the LMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">With <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/lms-integrations\/\">CRM<\/a><\/span>, it&#8217;s just another way of accessing content with the embedding of the entire LMS into the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisosolutions.com\/lms-integrations\/\">CRM<\/a><\/span>, so that the sales people don\u2019t have to leave the platform to take the training. Besides, the said LMS should have the modules for just in time training, mobile compatibility, sales training, customer training, partner training and employee training for both the external and internal resources. Besides, if you want to do performance and talent management, the said modules should be built on top of LMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;\">Yes, learning through gaming is enjoyable. However, keep in mind the ultimate goal: you\u2019ve to teach your learners. Always keep that context in mind when creating an interactive and engaging online course or when even gamifying the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/stagingps.paradisosolutions.com\/best-cloud-based-lms\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">LMS<\/span><\/a>. When an online learning solution fails, it is usually because of lack of learner engagement. 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