Using Activity completion
Why use Activity completion?
- If this feature is enabled, it is a helpful way for students to be able to track their progress in a course. The student has an easy to see checklist of what they have done so far.
- It can also be linked to Course completion in order to allow both students and teachers to watch progress through a course. As each activity is checked off as "complete", the student moves futher towards final completion of the course.
- It can also be linked to Restrict access in order to allow the teacher to set criteria upon which a student is allowed to progress through a course and access materials.
- It is possible to edit default activity completion settings within a course and to bulk update the settings for existing activities. See Activity completion.
Displaying activity completion
Teachers can decide whether to display completion settings and activity dates on the course page from the actions menu (Boost theme) or via the course administration block (Classic theme).
- Activity dates may be shown or not shown from the Appearance section
- Activity completion conditions may be shown or not shown from the Completion tracking section
Note that conditions and dates are always shown within an activity even if they are set to be hidden on the course page.
Conditions and dates on the course page
Conditions and dates within an activity
Manual completion
- The manual 'Mark as done' button is always shown on the course page for Labels, Files and URLs, even when the setting to show completion conditions is set to No.
- Activities and resources may be completed from within the activity, making it easier to move from one task to the next, rather than having to go back to the main course page.
Activity completion report
Activity completion info can be viewed by managers, teachers and non-editing teachers (and any other users with the capability report/progress:view) by clicking the gear icon top right and selecting "More> Reports>Activity completion" (with the Boost theme) or from Administration> Course administration> Reports > Activity completion with non-Boost themes.
Teachers can mark activities complete on behalf of students by clicking into the relevant completion boxes. This requires the capability Override activity completion status which is enabled for editing and non-editing teachers by default. Activities marked complete by the teacher display with a red border in the activity completion report.
More filtering is available for the activity completion report, allowing teachers to filter by activity type and order in the course.
