Activity completion

Quick overview

Activity completion allows the lecturer to set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource. A tick appears against the item when the student meets the criteria. The criterion might be viewing, receiving a certain score or a student marking it as complete. Through Activity Completion staff and students can track learner progress. Activities might be shown to be 'completed' automatically e.g. when a quiz is submitted, or manually marked as completed by the Student. Used together with restrict access, you can explore opportunities for self-directed learning.

Self-Directed Learning

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You can use the Activity completion settings with Restrict access settings to provide conditional activities for students. With conditional activities you can

• force students to follow a particular pathway,

• create alternative pathways in a module by setting the access according to different criteria.

Using Activity Completion

Activity Completion is enabled by default on all new modules. If you are working on a pre 2020/21 module you will need to enable Completion tracking.

If required, follow these steps to enable completion tracking on your module:

1. Click on Settings. If course completion is enabled, it will appear as an option in the Settings menu.  If course completion is not enabled, click Edit settings.

2. On the course settings page, scroll down to the Completion tracking settings. Click on the title to reveal its options.

3. To turn completion tracking on, select Yes from the Enable completion tracking drop-down menu.

4. Click save and display.

Activity Completion settings

Depending on the type of activity, there can be different completion requirements. For example, a page might have the requirement to require view; a Quiz might have the requirement to require grade while a Forum might have the requirement to require posts/discussions/replies.

Bulk edit Activity completion

Click on Settings > Course completion. Choose Bulk edit activity completion.

Select the activities/resources where you want to add/edit activity completion and click Edit.

Update/Add/Remove activity completion settings and click Save changes.

Review activity completion progress

You can monitor student progress for activity completion set on your module by clicking on Settings > Reports > Activity completion

As a Lecturer or Course Administrator you can manually change activity completion on behalf of students by checking or unchecking activity completion. Check or uncheck activity completion for the relevant students and click Save changes

Scroll to the bottom of the page to download a spreadsheet if required to review the progress of students.