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Moodle progress and attendance guide

Explore how you can monitor and update your progress through a module and how you can mark your attendance online via Moodle.

About activity completion

Activity completion enables staff and students to track progress. Academic and course office staff can set completion criteria for a specific activity or resource to help students monitor their progress through a module.

The criterion might require you to:

  • view a resource,
  • receive a certain score or
  • indicate self completion. 

Activities can be set to be automatically marked as  'completed' e.g. when you submit a quiz, or you can manually mark an activity as completed .

In Moodle 4, completion conditions and activity due dates are visible from the module page and within the activity. You also have a quick overview of complete and incomplete activities from the Module index on the left of the screen. This will help you keep on track of key activities and resources and more effectively manage your progress on a module.

Student view of activity completion on module page

When Activity completion is enabled for individual activities and resources you will see a notification to the right of the content on the module page.

Manual activity completion

Activities that require you to manually indicate that you have completed the activity will display a Mark as done box. You can check the activity as done directly from the module page or from within the activity where manual activity completion is set.

Mark as done displaying alongside Moodle page

 

Automated activity completion

Activities that require you to meet certain conditions in order to complete the activity will display the text of the conditions that you must meet. In the screenshot below, you have to make one entry for the glossary activity to be marked as complete.

Glossary with activity completion requiring students to add an entry

Student view of activity completion within activity

Manual activity completion

Activities that require you to manually indicate that you have completed the activity will display a Mark as done box within the activity underneath the activity name. You can check the activity as done directly from the activity or on the module page.

Mark as done displaying underneath page description top tips for learning on Moodle

Automated activity completion

Activities that require you to meet certain conditions in order to complete the activity will display the text of the conditions that you must meet within the activity as well as on the module page.

To do: Make entries 1 displaying on Moodle terminology glossary

Student view of activity completion on Module index

Activititop tips for learning on Moodle marked as done. Moodle terminology glossary and Moodle FAQ not completedes that have been set up with Activity completion conditions also display in the Module index in a panel on the left of the module. This provides you with a quick overview of your progress on a module. Activities that have been completed are represented with a filled green circle and activities that have not been completed are represented by an unfilled circle. If you hover your mouse over the icon, green circles display the text Done and unfilled circles display the text To do.

Within the Module index there is no differentiation between manual and automated activity completion settings. However, you can quickly select the activity from the Module index to review the Activity completion settings.

 

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