Hi @asc349,
Is this an online course? If you are using a course plugin of one kind or another, it might be possible to integrate WordPoints with it to keep track of this automatically.
WordPoints doesn’t currently have a way for users to award themselves points. However, there is a feature that allows admins to award points to other users, and the permissions required to access that feature could be lessened so that all users could modify their points. But they would also be allowed to modify the points of other users too, without some other modifications to the plugin as well.
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Thanks JD! It’s actually not an online course but a printed textbook, so the users would have to assign their own points. Your answer helps me because it clarifies that based on my lack of coding skills I should rule out Word Points for now.
In case you’re interested, there could be an opportunity for you to grow your user base by creating some built-in functionality in this area. I imagine there are a lot of people like me who want to increase user engagement by allowing people to track their progress with progress bars, charts, stats, etc. on some kind of course/learning pathway/personal regimen, where the plugin allows the users to assign themselves points. Self-assigning points is necessary whenever the learning/progress is not done in a plugged-in, online way. Users could assign themselves points in some kind of “My Progress” page. If you ever make something like this, please add me to your mailing list, asc [at] lexicaglobal [dot] com, thanks!
Thanks for the input, I will definitely keep this in mind.
