Design a learning path with activity completion

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Course:	Calmet Moodle Unit 4 - Design opportunities for practice and assessment
Book:	Design a learning path with activity completion

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Description

Introduction
Example
Instruction
Practice

Introduction

Activity completion has been explained in Unit 1, Book 1.2.2 part 2.1. In this book, we will focus on using activity completion to monitor practice and assessment.

Activity completion needs to be allowed on the course level before you can use it in an activity settings. When it is enabled, you will see an Activity Completion section when you edit the Settings of an activity.

Why use Activity Completion?

It is a helpful way for students to be able to track their progress in a course. It provides the student with a checklist of what they have done so far. Activity completion can also be linked to Course Completion in order to allow both students and teachers to track 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 Restrict Access in order to allow the teacher to set criteria upon which a student is allowed to progress through a course and access materials. For example, an activity could appear only when a previous activity, for example a quiz, has reached a minimum score. Using Activity Completion and Restrict Access at the same time, a teacher can build a learning path for students.

Example

Unit 1. interface in this Course looks like this:

Students can see checkboxes of different types, depending on the Activity Completion settings. When completion is automatic, the checkbox border is dotted. The border is solid when the completion is set to manual: students can check it by themselves when they finish the activity. As explained in Book 1.2.2 of Unit 1, Activities Completion are linked to the course completion, which is visible on the right margin block.

Activity completion means a variety of conditions, depending on the activity. For example, completing a Book can be done by opening it while completing a Quiz might be based on attaining a minimum score above a fixed threshold.

Instruction

Click on Edit next to the name of your activity, and Choose the Edit Settings line. You will find an Activity Completion section in the middle of the page that opens.

Remember that there are three options in Activity Completion:

— Do not indicate activity completion - no checkbox close to the activity

— Students can manually mark the activity as completed - students tick the checkbox themselves to change it. (Note: they can do this even without doing the activity!)

— Show activity as complete when conditions are met - the selected completion criteria must be met before the tick appears in the checkbox.

The third case needs the teacher to choose completion criteria, which can be quite different depending on the activity or resource:

1. Require view: this one is the simplest one. The student must open the resource to get a completion tick.

2. Require grade or passing grade in a quiz: in the first case, they just need a grade, whichever one they get, while in the second case, they must have a grade higher than a fixed threshold. In this latter case, the quiz completion on teacher side will show either green ticks (quiz completed and passed), or red crosses (completed but failed).

3. Require full reading or time spent in Lesson settings: these settings are specific to the Lesson activity. The teacher can choose "Student must reach the end of Lesson page" and/or add a minimal time spent on the activity in minutes. If they finish the lesson sooner, they will see an alert saying they did not reach the minimum time acceptable and may have to repeat the lesson.

4. Require submission or grading for an assignment: an assignment can be considered complete when students submit their assignment, or only when they get a grade from the teacher.

5. Require posting, creating a discussion or replying in a forum: in the first case, a student must post, either by starting a discussion or by replying to an existing discussion. The two other options are more precise, asking for creating a discussion or replying to someone else. In all cases, the total number of posts can be specified.

In all cases, the teacher can add an expected date to complete the activity or resource.

You can get a more detailed information on the Moodle docs webpage on Activity Completion.

You may find interesting in this Moodle Learn video on Activity Completion.

Practice

Create a standard forum for general use.

Edit the settings and in Activity completion, choose automatic completion tracking, and set the conditions by requiring students to post at least 2 discussions or replies.