# Points, badges and leaderboards

Quizzes earn points, levels and badges. Locations compete on a weekly and monthly leaderboard, winners go on the wall of fame, and admins can note the prize they gave.

For: Admins, Managers, Employees · On: Web, iOS, Android · [Help Center](https://www.mays.app/help) › [Knowledge & training](https://www.mays.app/help/knowledge-training) · Last updated October 10, 2026 · Mays Team

Quizzes earn points, levels and badges. Locations compete on a weekly and monthly leaderboard, winners go on the wall of fame, and admins can note the prize they gave.

Points and badges are part of the **Pro** plan, alongside Learning, and the Mays team switches them on for your organization. Without them, quizzes work the same, but there's no points card on **Profile** and the leaderboard stays empty. (The result screen after a quiz still shows points and badges.)

## How points are earned

| When | Points |
| --- | --- |
| Each correct answer | 10 |
| Every answer in a quiz correct | 50 bonus |
| Passing a module | 100 |
| 7 days in a row with a quiz | 50 |
| 30 days in a row with a quiz | 200 |

Points stop once you've passed a module: it can't be taken again. Until then, correct answers earn points even on an attempt you don't pass.

The result screen after a quiz shows *+… pts earned*. It doesn't include the 50-point bonus for a perfect score, which is still added to your total.

## Your points, level and badges (app)

Open **Profile** (your picture, top left). The card at the top shows **Your points**, your level and how many points you need for the next one, and your streak. Your **Badges** are listed underneath.

![Profile on iPhone with the points card: Your points 190, Bronze, 310 to next, a 1-day streak, and Badges (3): Food Safety Pro, Centurion and Rookie](https://mays-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/site/help__points-badges-and-leaderboards__01-profile-points.9bb9668979.png)

| Level | Points |
| --- | --- |
| **Bronze** | 0 to 499 |
| **Silver** | 500 to 1,999 |
| **Gold** | 2,000 to 4,999 |
| **Platinum** | 5,000 and up |

A **streak** counts the days in a row on which you finished at least one quiz. Days run from midnight to midnight UTC (8 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern in summer), so a quiz at 9 p.m. Eastern counts for the next day.

### Badges

New badges show on the result screen right after the quiz that earned them.

![A passed quiz on iPhone: Nice work!, 100%, +130 pts earned, and New badges earned: Rookie, Centurion and Food Safety Pro, above the review of each question](https://mays-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/site/help__points-badges-and-leaderboards__02-new-badges.23a30f14e9.png)

| Badge | How to earn it |
| --- | --- |
| 🆕 **Rookie** | Pass your first module. |
| 🥇 **Food Safety Pro** | Pass a module with *food safety* in its title. |
| 🎯 **Sharp Shooter** | Answer 50 questions correctly. |
| 🔥 **Hot Streak** | Take quizzes 7 days in a row. |
| 🌋 **On Fire** | Take quizzes 30 days in a row. |
| 💯 **Centurion** | Reach 100 points. |
| 🏆 **Thousand Club** | Reach 1,000 points. |

The badge list is the same for every company; you can't add your own.

## The location leaderboard

Locations are ranked by the **average points per active person**: the points earned there, divided by the number of people who earned any. A small store can beat a big one.

- **In the app:** **Profile → Learning → Branch leaderboard**. Switch between **This week** and **This month**. The wall of fame is listed below.
- **On the web (admins):** **Learning → Leaderboard**, with **Active users**, **Total pts** and **Avg / user** for each location, and the **Wall of fame** below.

![The Learning Leaderboard on the web for This week: North first with 2 active users, 350 points and 175.0 per user, South second with 3, 400 and 133.3; the Wall of fame below with a weekly win for South with a $60.00 Pizza lunch reward and a monthly win for North with Record reward](https://mays-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/site/help__points-badges-and-leaderboards__03-web-leaderboard.381bb1be4c.png)

A week runs Monday to Sunday and a month is a calendar month, both counted in UTC: the new week starts at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday in summer. Someone who works at several locations earns points for one of them only, normally the first one they were added to.

## The wall of fame and prizes

After each week and month, Mays records the winning location on the **Wall of fame** and sends everyone there a notification: *🏆 You won this week!* with the average. A period in which nobody earned points is listed as **No activity**.

To keep track of prizes, admins click **Record reward** next to a win on the web, enter an **Amount (USD, optional)** and a **Note**, such as *Pizza lunch for the South team*, and click **Save**. **Edit** changes it later. Recording a reward doesn't send anything or pay anyone; it's a note for you.

![The Branch leaderboard in the iPhone app: This week with North first at 175.0 average and South second at 133.3, and the Wall of fame with South for the week of 2026-09-14 and North for the month of 2026-08-01](https://mays-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/site/help__points-badges-and-leaderboards__04-app-leaderboard.952c1f4fa3.png)

## Good to know

- **Only quizzes earn points.** Tasks and checklists don't, whatever the plan.
- **Points can't be edited or taken away**, and they stay when a module is deleted.
- **Managers** see the leaderboard in the app like everyone else. On the web, Learning is for admins only.
- **Dates on the wall of fame:** the web lists each period's first and last day (*Sep 14, 2026 → Sep 20, 2026* for a week); the app shows the day it started (*Weekly · Sep 14*).

## Related articles

- Knowledge & training: [Taking training in the app](https://www.mays.app/help/knowledge-training/take-quizzes-on-mobile) — Your training modules are under Profile → Learning in the Mays app. Answer one question at a time, see your score, and learn from the explanation under each answer.
- Knowledge & training: [Creating training modules](https://www.mays.app/help/knowledge-training/create-learning-modules) — Turn your knowledge base articles and documents into a short quiz. The AI drafts the questions from your own text, you review and edit them, then publish the module for your team.
- Knowledge & training: [Assigning training](https://www.mays.app/help/knowledge-training/assign-training) — Send a published training module to whole locations, roles, departments or single people, with an optional due date, then see who has taken it, their best score and every answer.
- Knowledge & training: [Snap quizzes](https://www.mays.app/help/knowledge-training/snap-quizzes) — A pop quiz is a push notification with one question from a module someone hasn't passed yet. Mays sends at most one a day, only to people on shift, inside the hours an admin sets.
- Mobile apps: [Your profile in the app](https://www.mays.app/help/mobile-apps/mobile-profile-and-account) — Tap your picture in the Mays app to open Profile. Change your photo, switch organization, see your kiosk PIN, choose notifications, sign out or delete your account.
- Account & billing: [Plans, the free trial and locked modules](https://www.mays.app/help/account-billing/plans-and-free-trial) — Every organization starts with a 30-day free trial of all plan modules, then picks Basic or Pro (or your company's own package, if Mays set up custom pricing). What each plan includes, what the add-ons are, what a locked module means, and how each location's package decides its features.

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