Completion Tracking

Completion tracking is important because it helps monitor and ensure that students are progressing through the learning materials as intended. It allows instructors to:

  1. Ensure Accountability: By setting completion conditions, students are required to meet specific criteria before progressing, which ensures they engage fully with the content.
  2. Track Learning Progress: It helps instructors track whether students are completing tasks, achieving required grades, or meeting other learning objectives.
  3. Personalize Learning: Completion conditions can be tailored to individual student needs, allowing for customized learning paths and better support for students who may need additional help.
  4. Enhance Engagement: With automatic tracking, instructors can identify students who may be falling behind or not completing the necessary activities, enabling timely interventions.
  5. Provide Clear Feedback: It allows for clear reporting and feedback to both students and instructors about progress, completion, and any gaps in learning.

Overall, completion tracking ensures a structured, accountable, and personalized learning experience, improving both student outcomes and course management.
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1. Completion Conditions

  1. Enable the editing mode on the respective course
  2. Go to the ‘Completion Conditions’ Section:
    • Click at 3 dot of your activity/resource and select “Edit settings”.

    • In the settings page of your activity/resource, scroll to the Completion Conditions section.
  3. Choose Completion Criteria:
    • There are three options under Completion Conditions:
      • None: No completion conditions are applied.
      • Students must manually mark the activity as done: Students will have to click a button to mark the activity as complete.
      • Add requirements: Allows you to add specific requirements for completion, such as requiring students to view a certain number of pages, complete a quiz, or participate in an activity.
  4. Set the Criteria (if using ‘Add requirements’):
    • If you select Add requirements, you will need to specify the conditions. For example:
      • Viewing the activity
      • Reaching a certain grade
      • Submitting a quiz
      • Scoring above a specific percentage
  5. Save the Settings:
    • After configuring the completion conditions, ensure you save the settings to apply the changes “Save and return to course”.

2. Restrict Access

  1. Go to the Activity Settings:
    • Click at 3 dot of your activity/resource and select “Edit settings”.

  2. Locate the ‘Restrict Access’ Section:
    • Scroll down until you see the “Restrict access” section.
  3. Add Restriction:
    • Click the red button that says “Add restriction…”.
  4. Choose the Restriction Type:
    • From the drop-down menu, select the type of restriction you want to apply. There are several types of restrictions, such as:
      • Date: Restrict access based on a specific date or time range.
      • Grade: Limit access based on a student’s grade or score in another activity.
      • User Profile: Restrict access based on the user’s profile field.
      • Completion Criteria: Limit access based on the completion of other activities or courses.
      • Group or Groupings: Restrict access to certain groups or groupings.
      • Activity completion: Restrict access to student completion.
  5. Set Restriction Criteria:
    • After selecting the restriction type, fill in the required fields based on the restriction you selected.
    • For example, if you choose Activity completion, you will need to specify the activity.
  6. Save:
    Save the Settings:

    • After configuring the completion conditions, ensure you save the settings to apply the changes “Save and return to course”.

 

3. Testing and Monitoring

  • After applying restrictions and completion conditions, test the setup to ensure it works as expected. Log in as a student or use a test account to verify that the restrictions are being enforced and the completion conditions are correctly tracked.
  • Monitor the completion progress of students through the My Course section in your LMS. You can track completion data for each activity and student.