Using Activity completion

Why use Activity completion?

• If this feature is enabled, it is a helpful way for users to be able to track their progress in a course. The user 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 users and instructors to watch progress through a course. As each activity is checked off as “complete”, the user moves futher towards final completion of the course.
• It can also be linked to Restrict access in order to allow the instructor to set criteria upon which a user 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.

Activity completion icons

manual – not yet marked as complete

manual – enabled

manually completed

automatically completed

automatically failed

automatic – not completed

automatically passed

automatic – enabled

The manual – enabled and automatic – enabled icons are used on the course page when editing is turned on for instructors to see at a glance which activities have manual completion and which have automatic 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 Administration> Course administration> Reports > Activity completion.

Instructors can mark activities complete on behalf of users 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.