Completion Tracking is a way to make sure students work through the course and offers the option to automate the completion checks. This feature helps the instructor determine which activities are most crucial to completing the course, connect to prerequisite courses, and saves time by setting up the system to automatically check off completed tasks or take required attendance based on the instructor’s needs without relying on students to remember to keep track or having to wait on someone else to go through and check completion.
Add Completion Tracking to Your Course
- Go into the course you want to edit.
- In the Administration block, select “Edit Settings.”
- Scroll down to the “Completion Tracking” section, and next to “Enable Completion Tracking” there is a drop-down menu.
- Choose “Yes” if it is not already visible in the box.
- Then click on the “Save Changes” button to exit.
Course Completion Tracking Settings
- Back at your course home screen, go back to the Administration block and select “Course Completion.” This will take you to the tracking settings.
- In the General section, you can choose between:
- Course is complete when ALL conditions are met. Or…
- Course is complete when ANY conditions are met.For this example, we are going to choose, “Course is complete when ALL conditions are met.”
- In the “Activity Completion” section, you can choose which activities are required to complete the course. You can choose as many or as few as you want. Or you can choose one of the other options:
- Completion of Other Courses: Students have to complete other courses as well. It is as close to setting up prerequisite courses as you can get in Moodle. The courses listed are all the courses that have tracking enabled.
- Date: Input the course close date and no matter how much work the student actually completed the course will still be marked complete. This is a good option if only attendance is required.
- Enrollment Duration: You can also require the student to be enrolled for a certain number of days. This is a good option for courses that may only be a week long and grades are not important.
- Unenrollment: If you want the course to be marked complete only when the student is unenrolled then you can check the box in the Unenrollment section.
- Course Grade: There is the option to mark the course complete based on your choice of final grade. This is good to use in courses where the student must have a certain grade to get credit.
- Manual Completion: You can also setup the course for manual completion tracking either by the student checking off activities as they go or by having someone else go through and mark the course complete. Use caution when choosing either option as you can either be creating quite a bit of work for someone else or relying on students not to forget.
- Completion of Other Courses: Students have to complete other courses as well. It is as close to setting up prerequisite courses as you can get in Moodle. The courses listed are all the courses that have tracking enabled.
- Click on Save Changes to exit.
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