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Track activity completion

You can define the criteria or conditions that students must meet to mark activities and resources as complete in Moodle. The Activity completion report can be used to monitor the progress of large cohorts during the teaching period. You can also monitor trends of student preferences for optional activities and resources by tracking viewing. Activity completion can also be used to trigger selective release of resources and activities.

The Activity completion report provides a better overview of patterns of student engagement than individual student activity or participation reports.

Students will be able to view completion requirements (if enabled) of activities and resources in the Own Time/Real Time/Wrap up headers of learning sections, or on the unit homepage. If you would like students to be able to track their own completion progress at unit level, you may want to enable the Completion progress block.

Activity completion settings are only available if Completion tracking has been enabled. By default, Completion tracking is enabled for all Moodle units.

Enable Completion tracking

In the top menu banner, click on Settings.
In the Completion tracking section, check that Enable complete tracking is set to Yes.

Access the Activity completion settings

The activity completion settings can be accessed in the Completion conditions section of any activity or resource settings page.

In the top right corner, switch Edit mode on(Blue).
Navigate to the activity or resource.
Click on options (three dots) and select Edit settings.
Scroll down to the Completion conditions section.

NOTE: Activity completion settings can also be edited in bulk, see Set up Unit completion.

Completion conditions options

The activity/resource will be excluded from activity completion tracking. You will not be able to track viewing or student completion.
Students can manually click the Mark as done button for each activity or resource on the unit homepage.
Once clicked, the button will change to a green Done with a tick icon.
NOTE: If you intend to use the completion progress block or activity completion tracking in a meaningful way, it is recommended you select Add requirements and specify completion conditions for any assessed activities or resources.

Add requirements (Show activity as complete when conditions are met)

The activity is only marked as complete when defined conditions are met. When this option is selected, you can use one or more of the checkboxes to specify that the activity is completed when students do the following:

View the activity	The activity/resource must be viewed by the student to be marked complete. NOTE: When the student clicks on the link, this is counted as being ‘viewed’, potentially without having read or attempted the activity/resource.
Make a submission (Assignment only)	The activity will be marked complete if the student has made a submission. The student does not require a grade for the activity to be marked as complete. This is suitable for formative assessments.
Make a minimum number of attempts (Quiz only)	This activity will be automatically marked complete when a student makes a specified number of attempts. The number of attempts must be set up in the settings of the Quiz.
Start a discussion and/or post replies (Forum only)	Moodle will flag this activity as completed when the student takes the nominated action, either making a post, replying to a post made by someone else, or either/both. You can also set a number of posts or replies required to meet the completion criterion.
Receive grade	Students must receive a grade to complete this activity. You can select: Any grade: The activity will be marked complete regardless if the student receives a pass or fail grade. Passing grade: The activity will be marked complete only if the student receives a pass grade. The pass grade must be set in the Grade section of the activity settings.

Note: Completion conditions may vary slightly depending on the resource or activity.

Set reminder in the timeline

If enabled, the activity/resource will be displayed to students in the activity task tracker on the Unit dashboard and Moodle dashboard as “[Activity] requires action” as specified by the date. If not enabled, the availability settings will determine the “due date” of your activity/resource displayed on the task tracker and timeline for students.

Completion conditions: Student view

The completion conditions required will be displayed under the completion button displayed in the top right corner of the activity or resource. When clicked, the full list of conditions will be shown. Once conditions have been met, the labels will automatically change to a green Done label with a tick icon.

NOTE: If you intend to use the completion progress block or activity completion tracking in a meaningful way, it is recommended you select Add requirements and specify completion conditions for any assessed activities or resources.

View / Download the activity completion report

To track the progress of your students through the unit, you can view the activity completion report. You can also view and export reports for activity completion.

From the top banner menu, click on Reports.
From the list of reports, select Activity completion.
The report will list students in rows and unit activities and resources in columns. Ticked boxes show that activity or resources have been marked complete.
The appearance of the boxes indicate the activity completion setting for the activity or resource:
- Solid line: Students can manually mark the activity as completed
- Dotted line: Activity is marked complete when conditions are met
- Red line: An academic has manually marked the activity as completed on behalf of the student
To download the activity completion report, scroll down to bottom of the report and click on Download in spreadsheet format( UTF-8 .csv) or Download in Excel-compatible format (.csv).