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Why doesn't the Moodle course completion check for students start?

Feb 14, 2016 · Mark course complete when 3 out of 5 activities completed ... Depending upon the settings, course completion can require that an activity or the entire course be manually marked as complete. The settings will allow any number of combinations. For example, an activity might require the student to receive a minimum score and have the non-editing ...

Does course completion have a condition?

Jul 26, 2019 · On Moodle 3.5 here and having an issue with Course Completion. ... we imported a course including the user data from 2000 "old" users who had "Completed" the course (which contained quizzes and activities that required a grade and feedback to pass) and since then we have added 63 new users who are at various stages of completion. However for ...

How to enable course completion in activity completion?

Jan 25, 2016 · Hello guys! I'm facing a really strange problem with course completion. I've enabled the option "Enable completion tracking" on a certain course, added the "Course completion status" block, and selected 5 activities to monitoring with various options of "Activity completion" (viewed, manually checked etc.).. Then, for a test, I completed some of the activities with …

What is the difference between activity completion and course grade?

Aug 27, 2014 · The course completion block on the right shows a 'no tracking' and the tracking box for the course is not checked. 2. However, course completion has only one condition which is the completion of this one activity (all other conditions are unchecked). 3. This one activity is completed once seen, as was confirmed by the checked box in the first ...

How do you track completion in Moodle?

Track your learners' progress using activity completion in MoodleFirst ensure that “completion tracking” is enabled sitewide. ... Once it has been enabled, click “edit settings.” You will see this when clicking on the gear icon.Then scroll down to “completion tracking” and enable it by selecting the “yes” option.More items...•Jan 9, 2018

How is completion of an activity or resource in a Moodle course represented?

When the students visits the course with activity completion feature enabled, they will see a check box against the activity name. Once they meet the desired criteria set by the teacher for that activity, a check will appear marking the activity is completed.Nov 30, 2017

How do I enable completion progress in Moodle?

Once the block is installed on your site, you can use it in a course as follows.Turn editing on.Create your activities/resources as normal.Set completion settings for each activity you want to appear in the bar, including an expected by date.Add the Completion Progress block to your page (How to add a block)More items...•Oct 4, 2016

What is activity completion?

Activity Completion is a section in the settings of every activity and resource that allows you to set how that activity or resource can be marked as complete. Complete can mean different things based on the item, from the student simply viewing, to submitting, to receiving a grade.

How do I add a progress bar in Moodle?

To add a Progress bar to a course you will need to turn editing on within the course, then add a new block and select 'Progress bar' from the drop-down menu. The block will then display and will give you two options, 'Select activities/resources' or, 'Add all activities/resources'.

What is course completion?

Course completion shows if a course has been completed. It can show the progress a student is making towards finishing the course according to specific criteria. The criteria can include meeting an activity's grade level or a manual checking "complete" by either the student and/or teacher.Oct 15, 2018

How do I add a completion progress block in Moodle?

Login to Moodle, open your course, and click the "Turn editing on" button. Using the "Add a block" block on the left hand side, add the "Completion Progress block". in the block and select Configure Completion Progress block. The Block settings can be used to control the display of the block.Oct 28, 2020

Where is activity settings in Moodle?

From Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity modules > Common activity settings, the administrator can decide whether or not to force teachers to add a description to the activity or resource they are creating. The setting applies to all standard activities and resources on the site.Jul 6, 2020

How do I reset a course in Moodle?

ResetGo to your Moodle course and click on the Actions cog in the top-right of the page.Click on the Reset link.Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Select default button.Go to the Roles box. ... Scroll to the bottom again and click the Reset course button to start the reset process.More items...•May 6, 2020

Does Moodle save progress?

Re: Ability for students to "save progress" The student's responses are saved whenever they move to another page of the quiz. If the student leaves at any time (even if their browser, or the server crashes, or they get disconnected from the internet) then when they come back, the can continue from where they left off.Mar 3, 2012

What can Moodle track?

Moodle can detect cheating in online classes or during online exams through the use of a number of tools like plagiarism scanning, proctoring software or using lockdown browsers. These tools are separately applied by the instructors separately or incorporated as plugins.Jun 5, 2021

Where to find course completion report?

A course completion report is available when course completion is enabled.The report can be found via on "Reports" menu item link in the course Administration block and when "Completion tracking" is enabled for the site and course.

What is activity completion?

Activity Completion provides a fieldset (named "Student progress") which contains a setting (named "Completion tracking") which enables/disables activity completion in a course. We need to rename the setting to describe activity completion and add a setting to enable course completion.

What happens when you unlock activity completion?

In this case, unlocking an activity's completion settings will require deleting both the activity's completion data and the course's completion data.

What does "passing grade" mean in a course?

If "Passing grade" is enabled as a criteria for course completion, a grader should have the option of seeing completion status (i.e., "complete" / "not complete") as a column in the grader report.

What is cron function?

A cron function will check the criteria and update the course_completion_completions table as necessary. Here's a breakdown of the tasks for each criteria, and will need to be optimised for performance and scalability across all courses:

What is a course grade?

Course grade: A "student" meets or exceeds a passing grade in the course. Date: After a specified date all "students" are marked as completed in a course. Duration after enrolment: After a specified amount of time after enrolment (e.g., 12 weeks), a "student" is automatically marked as complete in a course.

Can you unlock course completion options?

The course settings can be unlocked (via an "Unlock course completion options" button), however a warning message will be displayed stating that unlocking the settings requires deleting all prior course completion data for the course. Once the completion data is deleted, the settings become unlocked (i.e., un-greyed out).

Recalculating Course Completion

On Moodle 3.5 here and having an issue with Course Completion.#N#I had to change some of the criteria (threshold for a pass in a couple quizzes), and also the criteria for a course completion (passing grade in the aforementioned quizzes).

Re: Recalculating Course Completion

Course completion will repopulate (if your sync is running) after this but if the original activity completion was not met it will not give them credit (if they had it before). If you want them to get credit for the original, even if the new criteria wasn't met, you can go to the activity completion report and manually check complete.

Re: Problem with course completion

Hello. The first thing to do is to check in Site administration > Server > Scheduled tasks that the task 'Calculate regular completion data' is running frequently enough, such as every minute.

Scheduled task for course completion NOT RUNNING

Hello again. So it seems you have a problem with cron running. This is not my area of knowledge but I have changed the title of the post to encourage others to respond as well. You can also read the documentation on Cron and Scheduled tasks to troubleshoot the issue.

Re: Scheduled task for course completion NOT RUNNING

I don't think you can do that in standard Moodle, sorry. You would have to set completion as automatic not manual. But if you would like others to make suggestions and discuss it further, please start a new forum thread with that subject.

course completion not working

I have a situation similar to one described earlier, meaning that conditional course completion is not checked even though all prerequisites have been met. Even more, the course completion block indicates that activity tracking is not ON, even though it is and checkboxes and checkmarks are shown.

Re: course completion not working

No, you said that the embedded movies course had moved to the past tab, I was just wondering if it did in fact have a course end date?

Uploading Course Completion

I am hoping someone can help me. Is there any way to upload activity completion OR Manager complete for a course using a .CSV file for individual users? I have a group of users for whom I want to always manager complete a number of courses.

Re: Uploading Course Completion

This tool was exactly what we need. I tried to use it in Moodle 3.9.2+, but without success. Is it only compatible with older moodle versions?

Course Completion criteria: Course Grade

In Moodle 3.5, I have a course with the following completion criteria:

Re: Course Completion criteria: Course Grade

Hi Shirley,#N#Thanks for your response - for some reason the email notification didn't come through.#N#1. No - "Grade to Pass" for each is set to 0.00.#N#2. Yes - all of the activies are selected for course completion. See screenshot of the course completion settings attached.

Course Completion and Email Notification

I have a course currently setup for training. Its is setup with course completion, based on a single activity completion. The one activity is a "Choice".

Re: Course Completion and Email Notification

I have done some more testing and can confirm that my "Activity Completion" and "Course Completion" are not working properly. I have tested a couple times and from a 'student' account I can complete the "Choice" activity and it will show a 'tick' in the completion box next to the activity.

Course completion not triggered

Course completion is set to "ALL activities to be completed" and as you can see, they're all completed for these students. What else can I check? I enabled the course completion block and it shows that these activities are not complete- but it is indicated that they are!

Re: Course completion not triggered

Sorry Frances that you've had no reply to your question. At a guess I wonder if the cron job triggers the checking and it has not been run?

Overview

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Evaluating Completion

  • Since the gradebook aggregation is performed via cron, it makes sense that course completion is also evaluated by cron. This creates an issue in which the progress block will not instantly not show course completion after the necessary criteria has been met by a "student". However, this can be solved by adding some instructional text to say "may take a few minutes to update".
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Course Reporting

  • Completion progress report
    A course completion report is available when course completion is enabled.The report can be found via on "Reports" menu item link in the course Administration block and when "Completion tracking" is enabled for the site and course. The report shows: 1. A column for each of the activit…
  • Gradebook
    1. If "Passing grade" is enabled as a criteria for course completion, a grader should have the option of seeing completion status (i.e., "complete" / "not complete") as a column in the grader report. 2. If a user assigned to a role that is enabled for "Manual completion by", the user should …
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Site Reporting

  • User (site) profile
    Activity and course completion criteria/status data should appear in a user's profile area. It would make sense for courses to be grouped by: 1. Courses in progress 2. Courses completed 3. Courses not yet started For each course, the required criteria and status should appear.
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Cron

  • A cron function will check the criteria and update the course_completion_completions table as necessary. Here's a breakdown of the tasks for each criteria, and will need to be optimised for performance and scalability across all courses: 1. Manual self completion:Cron not needed, performed directly from the Completion progress block. 2. Manual completion by:Cron not need…
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Backup and Restore

  1. The new completion fields in the course table will be included in the backup.
  2. Entries in the course_completion_items, course_completion_aggregation_methods, and course_completion_notify tables for the course should also be included in the backup.
  3. When user data is included in a course backup, the backup will also include records in the course_completion_completions table for the course.
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Events

  • The following course completion related events have been added to core: 1. course_completed 1.1. Triggered when a user completes a course. Event data is the full course_completions database record. 1.2. Added in version 2.3.2
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