XP, badges and streaks

XP reflects work done and consistency kept. It is deterministic: do the thing, get the points. It is not a grade, and it does not affect one.

My Achievements shows your XP, your level, your badges and your history. There is also a shorter version of this page inside the product, one click from that screen.

Earning XP

Core learning actions

XP	Action	How often
+5	Complete a lesson	Once per lesson
+25	Complete a topic	Once per topic
+10	Submit a quiz	Once per quiz
+25	Pass a quiz	Once per quiz
+25	Submit a project	Once per project
+100	Pass a project	Once per project
+250	Complete a course	Once per course
+500	Complete a pathway	Once per pathway
+100	Complete a cohort	Once per cohort
+25	Attend a live class	Once per session

Consistency

XP	Action	How often
+25	Your first sign-in	Once, ever
+5	Signing in	Once per day
+20	Reaching a 3-day streak	Once
+50	Reaching a 7-day streak	Once
+150	Reaching a 30-day streak	Once
+500	Reaching a 360-day streak	Once

Profile and feedback

XP	Action	How often
+25	Completing your bio	Once
+10	Submitting feedback or a survey	Once per week

Once means once

Nearly every row above is paid exactly once, and the platform keeps a record of what it paid you for. Redoing a lesson you already completed does not pay again, and neither does resubmitting a project you already passed.

This is deliberate. XP that could be farmed would say nothing about anybody, and the leaderboard would rank persistence at clicking rather than at learning.

Two rows have a different grain, and they are the exceptions worth knowing:

Signing in pays once per calendar day.
Feedback pays once per week.

The daily login is counted against the server’s day, so if you are in a distant time zone and sign in close to midnight, the award can land on what you would call yesterday.

Levels

Your level comes from your total XP:

level = whole part of the square root of (total XP ÷ 100), plus 1

Which in practice looks like this:

Total XP	Level
0	1
100	2
400	3
900	4
1,600	5
6,400	9
10,000	11

Each level costs more than the last, so early levels arrive quickly and later ones are earned.

Badges

Badges come in seven categories, and each category has the same seven tiers:

Initiate → Rookie → Specialist → Pro → Master → Grandmaster → Legend

Category	What it counts
Lessons	Lessons completed — 5, 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 800
Projects	Projects completed — 3, 7, 15, 25, 40, 65, 100
Quizzes	Quizzes completed — 3, 7, 15, 25, 40, 65, 100
Project quality	Projects scored above 85% — 1, 5, 10, 15, 25, 40, 65
Quiz perfectionist	Quizzes scored above 90% — 1, 5, 10, 15, 25, 40, 65
Streak consistency	Longest streak — 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 180 days
Level	Level reached — 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34

The Badges tab shows all of them, including the ones you have not earned yet, with how far off you are. Two categories are worth pointing at: quality and perfectionist reward doing the work well rather than doing more of it, and they are the slowest ladders on the list.

Streaks

A streak counts consecutive days you have been active. It appears on Home and feeds the streak badges.

The milestone bonuses are paid once per milestone, not every time you pass one. Reaching seven days pays 50 XP once; a second seven-day run later does not pay again.

If your organisation has streak reminders running, you are emailed when a streak is about to lapse. You can turn that off in your preferences.

Leaderboards

XP Leaderboards ranks you three ways:

Tab	Ranks you against
My Class	The people on your course offering
My Cohort	Everyone in your cohort
Overall XP	Everyone in your organisation

The first two are the interesting ones. Overall XP rewards people who have been on the platform longest as much as anything else; your class is people doing the same work at the same time as you.

Badges have a share link. See Sharing your achievements.