We’ve surveyed the Discord bot market and claim that Widget One is the first Discord gamification bot that’s actually created with the teacher in mind.

Many similar bots have communities that end up needing to create teams of moderators just to manage the gamification dynamics of the server. Being teachers ourselves, we find this simply infeasible and far from the truth. We’ve made it very VERY easy for teachers to check submitted work and gain access to reports in each of the servers / classes / teams they manage, without compromising the essential online human-to-human interaction that defines the teacher-student dynamic.

We seek to empower the team of One. Everything you need is a command. the One teacher who wants to engage a class. The One manager who would like to motivate a team. The One leader who would like to introduce a novel change in the reward structure of an organization. Widget One scales with you are you grow your community.

We saw that many (if not all) similar bots implement gamification mechanics that activate external motivation (BLAP gamification – Badges, Leaderboards, Awards, Points).

This is… of course, okay. But we would like to offer the insight that research/development teams around the world who don’t even know each other are producing work that’s pointing to the same unified conclusion, that external motivation is unsustainable and does not induce identity level changes in the learner, and that meaningful gamification elements geared towards activating internal motivation instead are better overall.

“If all the religions of the world, created independently from each other, say that humility is good. Isn’t it logical to consider being humble?”

Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday

Activating internal motivation and designing meaningful gamification features is at the center of Widget-One.

You may use the command $createchannels to initialize prominent gamification dimensions for your server. Alternatively, you may create your own custom channels that better fit the how you would wish to use Widget One. Widget One will automatically tracker these custom channels and record points awarded in those channels respectively.

Your students/team may use the $submit command in any channel you create to formally submit files/images/programs/pdfs etc. as proof for checking.

These formal submissions appear as direct messages in the teacher’s / owner’s inbox for easy checking.

Teachers / owners may use the standard Discord reactions to accept or reject (ask for revisions) submitted work. Accepting submissions awards the corresponding points to the author of the submission.

Students may use the $stats commands to check their individual progress and requirements to unlock the next levels.

When students level up their profiles or a level up occurs in any of the dimensions/channels, Widget One broadcasts the achievement to the Server as well as the World Ticker.

This world ticker shows all Widget One activities (level ups, submissions, approvals, rejections) across all Discord servers using Widget-One. You may embed the world ticker on your own webpage using the code you have received upon purchase of any of the Widget One versions below. The details of the submissions won’t show up in the world ticker (files uploaded, links to submitted artifacts, etc.), the purpose of the ticker is to give a pulse of the activities happening worldwide similar to the HUD notifications we have in classic MMO-RPG games.

Use the $addgamemaster command to add additional checkers/admins to your server.

Use the $setLVLExponent command to fine tune the levelling requirements and experience.

Widget One Level Up Structure

Widget One follows a 2-tiers levelling up system similar to Ragnarok and Ingress. Players will be able to level up their accounts until a certain level where proficiency in different domains/channels/skills are demanded. This is to ensure a certain level of holistic development in the part of the player.

Account Level Up Formula

Tier / Skill / Channel Level Up Formula