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In Colombia, the teaching-learning process shows slow progress in improving the quality of education, causing in some cases the students motivation decreasing to continue learning (Vivar Farfán, 2013). According with the strategic objective contemplated in the “Plan Decenal para la Educación” (Ministerio de Educación Nacional, 2006), which considers the inclusion of training in Science, Technology, Innovation and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as fundamental for the improvement of educational activities in Colombia. However, the incorporation of this strategy in the educational system in Latin America has not shown significant results (UNESCO, 2013). In the educational field, there is a research focused on discovering and understanding the impact of technological attitudes and skills in the use of ICT in order to improve the motivation and interest of students, although, the National Government, from the Ministry of Education, has been promoting the massification and use of ICT tools. That is why 74,266 electronic tablets were delivered to educational institutions in Colombia in order to contribute to the improvement of educational quality. What allows schools to support the processes of production, innovation and creativity in students (MinTIC Colombia, 2013); Many teachers fear of these devices or because they do not know how they work (Mejía, Giraldo, Castro, & Augusto, 2011). Some others think that the devices do not help their classes, on the contrary, they want to teach with traditional methods, as they learned many years ago. Several teachers confess their fear of using new technologies because they think that they know less than their students (Louis Anais, 2013). Thanks to technology, today some students have access to information outside of educational institutions, while within them the teacher restricts its use by factors such as social networks and information security, which contributes to the decrease in motivation in the learning process (Garzon & Sanz, 2012). Numerous investigations have shown the importance of motivation in learning, without motivation there is no learning (Sedighian & Sedighian, 1996). Specifically, in developing countries like Colombia must seek solutions and adapt to globalization, and to do so they must promote new skills in people, especially those that are in educational processes; strengthen the educational system, motivate and encourage the student to build creatively (Emiro & Bravo, 2011). In education, game-based learning is a motivating factor, as games are often attractive for their rules (Marin-Vega, Alor-Hernández, Zatarain-Cabada, Barron-Estrada, & García-Alcaraz, 2017). For that reason, we want to experiment some features of gamification patterns in a learning process while several month to see the student’s advances. In the learning processes, the games and their elements are part essential to achieve a significant increase in motivation, the group and individual participation, social participation and learning outcomes in different areas and contexts (Sedighian & Sedighian, 1996). also,they can be inserted in formal educational processes as complementary to traditional teaching processes, or even be considered educational materials used for autonomous (formal or informal) learning situations.(Silveira, Mackenzie, & Paulo, 2018). Taking into account games, gamification is defined as the use of game design elements in contexts not related to the game (Deterding et al., 2011), this supports the fact that in some studies gamification has been used to improve student learning (Klopfer, Osterweil, Groff, 2009). Current research like (Balci, Secaur, & Morris, 2018; Davis, Sridharan, Koepke, Singh, & Boiko, 2018; Ding, Er, & Orey, 2018) show the efficacy of the gamification has not been well-established due to conflicting results of relevant studies. Then, how can we contribute to improve the performance of the students in a classroom? And so, can we demonstrate the efficacy of gamification patterns in the motivational process? That is why, we considered the need to propose a catalog to allowing the design of applications with these patterns. Which can increase the motivation in students to do classroom activities and get better results.