Course completion tracking is one of the most useful features in Moodle, allowing instructors to monitor and verify that students meet all required criteria to finish a course. Whether you’re a teacher, course designer, or administrator, setting up course completion can streamline the process of tracking student progress and ensuring that all requirements are met.
In this post, we’ll walk through the steps for setting up course completion in Moodle 4.0, ensuring that your students complete all necessary tasks and activities before they’re marked as having completed the course.
Step 1: Turn on Course Completion Tracking
The first step in enabling course completion is to turn on the course completion feature. Here’s how you can do it:
- Go to your course settings.
- Scroll down to the Completion tracking section.
- Ensure that Enable completion tracking is checked.
- You’ll also see an option to Show activity completion conditions. This will display the criteria for completing various activities in the course.
This setup will allow you to monitor what students need to do for each activity to complete the course successfully.
Step 2: Adjusting Activity Completion Settings
Once course completion tracking is enabled, you can set specific completion criteria for individual activities. For example, you might want to track whether a student has completed a quiz, submitted an assignment, or participated in a forum discussion.
In the course, each activity can show a variety of completion statuses, such as:
- To Do: The activity is not yet completed.
- View: The student has viewed the activity.
- Receive a grade: The student has completed the activity and received a grade.
- Receive a passing grade: The student has not only completed the activity but also passed it.
You can choose whether to display these activity completion criteria to students based on what’s most relevant for them.
Step 3: Define Course Completion Requirements
Now that activity completion is set up, it’s time to define the criteria for completing the entire course. This is where you specify what conditions need to be met for a student to be considered as having completed the course.
- Click on More in the course menu and select Course Completion.
- You can select whether the course is complete when all conditions are met or any conditions are met. Typically, you’ll want to choose all conditions to ensure that all tasks are finished.
- Select the activities that must be completed, such as quizzes, assignments, and forums. For each activity, you can set completion criteria. For instance, a student may need to submit an assignment and receive a grade to have that activity marked as complete.
Step 4: Additional Course Completion Options
In addition to activity completion, you can set additional conditions that must be met for course completion:
- Completion of another course: If the student needs to complete another prerequisite course before they can finish this one.
- Completion date: You can set a date after which the course will be considered complete.
- Enrollment duration: This can be based on how long the student has been enrolled in the course. For example, after being enrolled for 30 days, the course is marked as complete.
- Course grade: You can specify that the student must achieve a certain grade to complete the course. This is useful when activities might be completed but the grades are still inconsistent.
- Manual or self-completion: The student can manually mark the course as complete if this option is enabled, or a teacher can mark the course as complete on behalf of the student.
Step 5: Generate Course Completion Reports
Once you’ve set the criteria for course completion, Moodle 4.0 provides powerful reporting tools. Instructors can easily view who has completed which tasks and track overall progress.
- Go to the Reports section in your course.
- Select Course Completion to see a list of all the required activities and whether students have completed them.
- You’ll see a completion report with green ticks indicating which tasks have been finished by each student. The report also helps instructors quickly identify any students who still need to complete certain activities.
Conclusion
Setting up course completion in Moodle 4.0 is a great way to ensure that your students are meeting all required learning milestones. By enabling completion tracking, defining clear activity and course completion requirements, and using the powerful reporting features, you can stay on top of student progress without manually checking each grade or activity. With Moodle 4.0’s advanced features, managing course completion has never been easier.
