Set up Activity Completion in Moodle

Once activity completion is enabled in the course, all you need to do is go into important content and select what you want students to do to complete them.

After students complete content, you can also view a report of their completion

1. Select completion requirements for content
2. View the completion report

Select completion requirements for content

You only need to set up activity completion for the content that you want to track completion for.

To set up the completion criteria for some content, begin by turning editing on in the course and editing some content.

On the edit settings page, scroll down to the 'Activity completion' section. This is where you can select the completion requirements

Set the completion tracking dropdown to one of the completion options. You have 2 main choices:

• Students can manually mark: This provides a 'Mark as done' button for students to click when they consider themselves done with the content. This can provide students with guidance and a way to track their own progress through the course
  
• When conditions are met: This allows you to select criteria for students to complete before the activity is marked as completed. Once students meet the criteria, they will be automatically marked as completed
  

There is no further setup for 'Students can manually mark' however if you select 'When conditions are met', you will need to tick all the conditions that the students need to complete to count as having 'Completed' this task.

View the completion report

The activity completion report gives you an overview of how your students are completing the content. To view the report, go to the settings block, click 'Reports' and select 'Activity Completion'

In the report, completed activities can be seen as ticked checkboxes for each content with completion. Only content with completion set up will show up in this report.

You can click on checkboxes to manually tick them, this will override the student's completion status so that it is always the same as what you have selected regardless of what they have done.

Tip: The completion report can be downloaded as a csv file by clicking the download options available in the report below the table

Percentage activity completion on student Dashboard

When activity completion is enabled in the course, students will see a percentage on their dashboard with how much of the completion requirements they have completed. This percentage is not used to signify official course completion at UNSW.