How to add leader board for a game integrated with D2L lms? How to implement some features of gamification for the available LMS! Some thoughts about how to activate the gamification starting with the available resources!

1. Gamification Solutions for D2L
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Solution 1 – External game:
External game file communicate with its DB using web service via server side script.
Requirements:
 Game (Flash/ActionScript 3.0 OR HTML5/JavaScript) communicate with the server side.
 Server side file to communicate with the game and the DB developed with PHP/MySQL.
 The server side script will arrange the results to make the lead board.
 Database (DB) to record the player’s score.
Questions:
 How to send student data from the D2L to the game?
 How to show the results in the D2L course home page?
 Can we just save the data to D2L database?

2. Gamification Solutions for D2L
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Solution 2 – D2L SCORM:
Using the SCORM report in D2L to track the student’s achievement, and update the lead board
manually.
Requirements:
 Game packaged as SCORM and return results to the D2L system.
 The teacher (system user) should understand how to deal with SCORM reports.
 The teacher (system user) will update the lead board when required.
Questions:
 How the leader board will displayed in the D2L course home page?
 Can we develop a widget that can read the SCORM report and display it?
 How to train the Teacher to understand SCORM reports?