Your Curiosity Score is an accumulation of the Curiosity Points you've earned on your posts throughout your time using Packback. It takes into account all of the Packback Communities you are a part of in your courses.

The Packback Curiosity Scoring Algorithm scores individual posts based on three main criteria: Presentation, Credibility, and Effort. Read more about these criteria below:

Presentation

To grade for presentation, the Packback Curiosity Scoring Algorithm considers legibility, formatting, the inclusion of images, videos and supplemental materials within questions and responses that make the post easier more interesting or more insightful to read.

Credibility

Using materials to provide evidence to support your argument in your responses or providing context to your questions elevates your posts' quality and value in the community. To grade for credibility, the Packback algorithm studies whether or not posts contain source citations to defend ideas and arguments.

Effort

The Packback Curiosity Scoring Algorithm studies the content of the posts on the platform to score the effort that you put into each post. The effort is one of the strongest indicators of a quality response on Packback. Since most of the questions on Packback are open-ended and do not have a single right answer, a well-documented, well-articulated and well-supported response is far more valuable than one that it simply provides a cut-and-dry answer. The effort is graded by studying whether you gave the most straightforward answer to the question, or if you added new and unique value to the community by explaining your argument fully, sharing a story, including videos or images to illustrate the point and more.

Check out Where can I find my Curiosity Score? on Packback's knowledge base to learn more about where to find your Curiosity Score.