Training Manual: Activity Completion

What is Activity Completion:

 Activity completion allows the teacher to set completion criteria in a specific activity's
settings.
 A check (tick) appears against the activity when the student meets these criteria.
 A criterion might be viewing, receiving a certain score or a student marking it as
complete.
 Activity completion appears in the setting page of an Activity or Resource.
 Site Administrator must have to enable it on the site through Site administration >
Advanced settings > Completion tracking

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 further towards final completion of the course.
 It can also be linked to Conditional activities in order to allow the teacher to set criteria
upon which a student is allowed to progress through a course and access materials.

How to access Activity Completion settings:

 After logging in the teacher has to go to his course.
 Then Click on “Turn editing on”. On the right top corner.
 Figure 1: Home page of Course

 Now Click on “Add an activity or Resource”

 Then select your desired activity or resource you want to add to the course.

Figure 2: adding activity/ resource to desired week in the course

 Figure 3: Adding desired activity/ resource to course

 Once an activity/ resource added to the course its setting page for that activity/ resource
appears.
 From where teacher can give name and description (required fields) of that activity or
resource and can set the requirements.
 On that setting page there is an option of “Activity Completion”.

Conditional activities settings:

 After enabled by the administrator the teacher will see “Activity Completion” option in the
setting page of each activity or resource.
 Different activities and resources have different “activity Completion” settings.
 Settings are depending on the requirements for that Activity or Resource.

Figure 4: Activity Completion setting for Quiz

 Figure 5: Activity Completion setting for Forum

Figure 6: Activity Completion setting for Assignment

Activity Completion settings: Completion Tracking :

 Activity completion is tracked either manually or automatically based on certain

conditions.
 A tick next to activity name in the course page indicate when the activity is complete.
 Three options for “completion tracking”

o Do not indicate activity completion - this will not show checks(ticks)next to the
activity
o Students can manually mark the activity as completed - students press the check
(tick) to change it. (Note: they can do this even without doing the activity!)
o Show activity as complete when conditions are met - the selected completion
criteria must be met before the check(tick) will change style
 Figure 7: Completion tracking

Activity Completion settings: Require View :

 When this option is turned on, students have to view the activity or resource in order to
complete it.
 In most cases, clicking the link is enough to 'view' the activity or resource.
 You should usually not turn on the 'view' condition if you have other requirements. This
makes extra work for the server and it's unlikely that a student could meet any other
conditions without viewing the activity.

Figure 8: Activity Completion: Require view

Activity Completion settings: Require Grades :

 When this option is turned on, students have to get a grade on the activity in order to
complete it. For example, a quiz would be marked completed as soon as the user
submits it.
 It does not matter how well the student did. Getting any grade will mark the activity
completed.
 It is possible to distinguish between 'pass' and 'fail' grades so that the activity becomes
'completed, passed' or 'completed, not passed' instead of just 'completed'. These results
show a different icon and alternative text.
 To set this up, you need to specify the pass value for this activity's individual grade:
o Go to the course gradebook by clicking the 'Grades' link on the course
administration block.
o From the 'Choose an action' dropdown, pick 'Categories and items'.
o Click the Edit icon next to the grade item for this activity.
o Turn on 'Show Advanced'.
o Type a grade value (e.g. 5.0) in the 'Grade to pass' box.
 Once you have done this, anybody submitting the quiz will receive either the pass or fail
completion icon.
 If the quiz can be taken multiple times, the completion icon will automatically update
whenever the grade does.
 There is one limitation:
o This only works if grades are immediately visible to students.
o The grade must be neither permanently hidden, nor hidden until a certain date. If
a grade is hidden then only the standard 'completed' state will be displayed -
even once the hidden date has passed.

Figure 9: Activity Completion: Require Grades

Activity Completion settings: Require submission :

 This setting appears in assignments and means that an assignment may be considered
as completed once the student has submitted but before the teacher has had time to
grade it.

Figure 10: Activity Completion: Require Submission

Activity Completion settings: Expect Completed on :

 The date is not shown to students and is only displayed in the Activity completion
report.

Figure 11: Activity Completion: Expect Completed on

Activity Completion Icons :

 manual - not yet marked as complete

 manual - enabled
 manually completed
 automatically completed
 automatically failed
 automatic - not completed
 automatically passed
 automatic - enabled
 Once an activity or resource is added to the course the icon appears in front of that.

Figure 12: Activity before Completion

 When the activity is completed the Icon change according to the condition.

Figure 13: Activity after Completion

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) in Navigation > Courses >
My course > Reports > Activity completion.

Figure 14: Activity Completion Report