Steps/Points: Publish post to specific category?

I am trying to set up gamipress as an alternative to grading my university project design classes.

I set post categories (one for each type of assignment), and would like to award points based on whether students have published posts to each of 9 categories. Then I know they have completed all assignments, as each assignment has a different category.

I would like to know if it’s possible to set up steps to earn points by punishing a post to a certain category? I downloaded Gamipress “Activity by Category” but that only works with comments, not publishing posts themselves.

Awarding points for posting to specific categories would allow me to use Gamipress to put grading into the hands of students instead of in my hands–as long as they complete each step or post in a satisfactory way, as well as adding feedback (i.e. comments), and other activities.

I hope there is a simple solution?

J Blais
Univ of Maine

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