How do I track my learner's progress by using activity completion in my Moodle course?
Activity completion or completion tracking, lets students see their progress through their Moodle course through the use of checkboxes on the side of activities.
There are two types of checkboxes to help your students: dotted and solid.
The boxes with dotted lines are automatically ticked when a student hits a certain criteria, such as completing a quiz. Whereas the boxes with solid lines can be clicked manually by students to display that they have completed the activity.
To set up activity completion within your Moodle course:
In your Moodle course, click edit settings under the Administration block on the right.
Scroll down to completion tracking and enable it by selecting the yes option.
Click save and display.
With editing turned on, click edit settings next to an activity you want to track and scroll down to Activity Completion.
You can pick between indicating that the activity has been completed manually, or automatically based on a criteria.
Tick the enable checkbox next to the "Expect completed on" date and alter the date if necessary.
Click Save and Return to Course.
NB For other Activities such as Forums, there will be other completion criteria e.g. students must post a certain number of discussions or replies and the activity will only be marked complete when they have done that.
Click here to learn about the Completion Progress Block which you can add to your moodle course as a way for students to easily see their progress on the activities you have asked them to complete.
