---
title: Understand Points, Levels, Streaks, and Leaderboards
description: See your community rank, compare time periods, and understand how eligible participation affects points.
audience:
  - member
product_area: gamification
topics:
  - Points
  - Levels
  - Leaderboards
  - Streaks
synonyms:
  - student
  - learner
  - member
  - rank
  - XP
routes:
  - /groups/:groupId/leaderboards
related_articles:
  - students/community-participation
  - students/track-progress
  - students/members-following-and-messages
status: published
---

Choose **Leaderboards** in a community. The summary shows your current rank, point total, level, and active streak without requiring you to scan the full ranking.

![The current personal-rank summary and All Time, This Month, and This Week tabs, cropped before member names.](/help/images/students/leaderboards.jpg)

Use **All Time**, **This Month**, or **This Week** to change the period. The position and point total can change between tabs because each period counts a different window of eligible activity.

## How points and levels work

The community creator defines:

- which actions award points;
- how many points each action is worth;
- the level names and thresholds; and
- whether particular activity qualifies for a streak.

Eligible actions can include lessons, quizzes, posts, comments, reactions, events, or other configured participation. The **How to Earn Points** area on the page is the authoritative list for that community.

Streaks count consecutive eligible days using the community's day boundary. A streak can reset when no qualifying action is recorded in that window.

Points and ranks are participation signals. They do not replace course completion, a required quiz score, a certificate rule, or an admin's assessment decision. If points do not appear, refresh once and check the configured action before asking the community admin to review it.

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