Title: Does this work for reporting study progress?
Last modified: October 3, 2016

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# Does this work for reporting study progress?

 *  [asc349](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asc349/)
 * (@asc349)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-work-for-reporting-study-progress/)
 * Hi,
 * I am looking for a system that will allow users to give themselves points based
   on self-reporting their progress through a course. Does this plugin only give
   points for engaging with the site with posts/comments/etc, or can it also be 
   used for self-assigning points in order to keep track of one’s progress?
 * Thanks for your help.

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 *  Plugin Author [J.D. Grimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgrimes/)
 * (@jdgrimes)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-work-for-reporting-study-progress/#post-8251288)
 * Hi [@asc349](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.
 *  Thread Starter [asc349](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asc349/)
 * (@asc349)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-work-for-reporting-study-progress/#post-8251468)
 * 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!
 *  Plugin Author [J.D. Grimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgrimes/)
 * (@jdgrimes)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-work-for-reporting-study-progress/#post-8251705)
 * Thanks for the input, I will definitely keep this in mind.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-this-work-for-reporting-study-progress/#post-8251705)
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